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It’s way past eight o’clock at night. The telephone stopped ringing after I refused a night out on the town with my friends and I’m thinking that the only good thing in leaving the office at this hour is that the traffic will be lighter… a cold comfort especially when you consider that tomorrow is going to be the same.
Sounds familiar? How many times in the past month have you found yourself in the situation described above? What about in the last year? I bet that right now you don’t have enough fingers to count.
The question I ask myself in situations like the one above is why? Furthermore, who? Who am I as an employee but even more who am I as an individual? I think that professional success is important and I like achieving my goals, especially when they’re challenging! But what is our capacity to produce valuable long term results as long as personal satisfaction is constantly deteriorating and there’s no room left for personal activities that help us grow as individuals?.
Michael Goldhaber wrote in Wired magazine that : “If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either!”. A lot of times we think that being special, getting noticed means forgetting about ourselves. Well, special things derive from passion, energy! And passion and energy are a package deal along with a rich personal life, full of stories, experiences and balance!.
Another author that I appreciate to a high degree, Ayn Rand, said in one of her books that “every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others”. When was the last time we made a list with the things that are very important to us? How many of them do we do on a day to day basis? When was the last time we had a weekend all to ourselves? A night out with our friends?.
What is that certain passion that we can afford to indulge in at least once a week? And exactly which of the things that we do in a 24 hour period help us grow as individuals, develop and make us special for those around us and more important, for ourselves?.
I have an immense admiration towards every person around me that can take time off to do something else, even if it’s just for half an hour! Anything that’s different from the daily checklist, something they’ve dreamed about for a long time, an activity that brings something extra, that develops us as individuals and provokes us to spend a little more time everyday and think about who we are and what makes us special!
Alexandra Georgescu
Trainer
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