Slap your boss!

Please don’t slap your boss literally. That will surely lead to your firing too. What I mean to say by slapping your boss is slap the boss that is sitting inside your head – your critical head that stops you from doing a lot of things. Why I used the boss term is because bosses or rather bad bosses are known to keep you in control. They say no to your every desire – You cannot work from home, you cant go home early, you cant take more leaves, you can’t skip a meeting, you can’t go to a conference room without permission.

Some bosses can screw your life so badly that they even cross the borders of your personal life territories and threaten your work-life balance. This is why to make it simple, I am calling that critical head that stops you, warns you, and instructs you to stay inside A BOSS.

If you think that you do not have a boss and that you are in full control, ask yourself if you have ever been in a situation where your heart was asking you to do something but your head stopped you from moving?

I was once in a seminar that was a part of a community. I was a new member. They had great speaker sessions on stage and after it was over, they invited the spectators to join the performers on the stage for a dance. All the old members went up but the new members including me were standing right below. I loved to dance and wanted to go but when I looked at my other colleagues, my boss told me to stay calm and not try to be over smart.

I stayed there for a couple of minutes until I could not hold myself any longer. I ran to the stage and started dancing with strangers. Some of the new members saw me going and yet, kept quiet. A few others joined me in the fun. If I had not said shut up to my critical head on that day, I would never have enjoyed that day and would not have made new friends who I still know.

It is a universally known truth today that 90% of the time, we are living a life in an auto mode and doing only those things that we think are in our control. We never want to go beyond our comfort zones and self-created boundaries. And whenever we try to make a stop, our boss stops us.

Next time, your head is asking you to stop doing something you want to do, either because of cultural boundaries or personal inhibitions like lack of confidence, slap your boss, and take action. If you limit yourself because of your internal fears which is what you are doing most times, you will never find new opportunities for growth. Do not be limited by your own inhibitions but do what it takes to grow. Who knows if that action will change your life by opening up new opportunities for you?

So, today, list down the things that you want to do but you are not doing because you think you shouldn’t or can’t do. Slap your boss now and do the first thing on your list. And then, you can feel the fresh fragrance of freedom and I trust that you will enjoy it.

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