Feel you need to make changes to your life?

What’s making you think that? Have you run out of steam? Lost your mojo? Feel jaded? Have you stopped learning and growing? Are you functioning at the level of your potential? Perhaps you’re bored. Someone once said, ‘Boredom can rise to the level of a mystical experience, and if that’s true I know some very busy executives who are among the greatest mystics of all time’.

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?Or perhaps you’ve been successful and are hanging on to past achievements, afraid to try something new. A famous French writer said, ‘There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.’ How about you? Has your clock stopped?

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It can be that the answer is simple. You just need to find another job. However, it can be that what we’re experiencing as a disaster is a door closing on a chapter of our lives, perhaps a way of life. Then what? It feels as though it is calling into question all that we have ever hoped for or believed of ourselves and the universe.

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What if the door is closing on something that wasn’t right for us? What if something is trying to tell us that there is a better way? That there might be something of real significance round the corner?

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When we get the phone call in the middle of the night, an accident befalls someone close to us, a ruinous investment is made, or a business failure hits us like a ton of bricks, it can all come crashing down on us.

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What happens then? As a friend of mine said when he was leaving his day job: ‘What I’m experiencing right now feels like the universe is trying to get my attention and I guess I’m finally listening’.

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Sometimes our journey needs to be outwards, to get the experiences that will reenergise and excite us, and sometimes the journey needs to be inwards. If the questions are more than just about an unmanageable workload and then we need to give ourselves some time to check in on our ourselves, nurture our minds and psyches. Finding your own purpose and understanding your values are also core ways to gaining that perspective and focus.?

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Sometimes what gets in the way of making a different choice about our lives is that we have been very successful in a certain role or organisation, and we hang on to it as our security. The trouble is that we can get stuck, circumstances change, we change, there’s a new CEO who wants something different from what we’ve contributing, and the decision is made for us.

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In the coaching I’ve done with business leaders and owners, I’ve encountered a number of people who have felt like this. Facing up to the need for change isn’t easy and sometimes you need help. If this is you, get in touch.

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