When I fall, trip, or get hurt, my friends will be there for me and not my work.
It is a great reminder to me to always remember that the most important and nourishing moments of my life is always those I spend with my love ones and friends. They made my life filled with purpose and meaning.
No sacrifice I make for my work and career is worthwhile if the sacrifices made are on these important relationships in my life.
Yet, if I touch my heart and ask myself, some time I do make such sacrifices at the expense of these relationships. Often, I realise it only when these relationships are broken or when my loved one/friend is dead.
This video got me to ask this enormously powerful question to the workaholic me …
“What if the sacrifices we make for our careers are costing us the most important relationships in our lives?”
Just reading this question alone sends chills up my spine, let alone trying to answer it. It evokes a deep sense of mission in me to not let the cruel reality of working and living allow me to sacrifice what is most important in my life in many ways defines my Being.
This is the question that I need to ask myself periodically.
This is also the question that a coach who you trust and work with will unmercifully ask … to hold you accountable to staying true to your Being.
As a coach, I aspire to be the faithful, loyal and frank questioner for my clients … asking the question that my client doesn’t dare to ask him/herself to create a space for his/her real Being to emerge. There is so much joy, a sense of privilege to witness the fullest potential of my client’s Being emerged from a question like this.
What will this question evoke in you? I wonder …
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