Hold your line:

Working with clients to enable them to achieve their career goals, I am reminded just how impatient we humans can be…. Encouraged by a buy-it-now-fix-it-quick society, (and I include myself in this whole heartedly!), we can lose heart very easily. Once we have chosen a purpose or mission, we quit when we don’t land on the Moon within the week.

There is something about the sustainability of putting in a really good chassis, choosing the direction of travel and holding your line.

This way we have a metric. Did this success bring me closer to my destination, what have a learnt from this challenge that I can use in the next bit of the journey? And can i
do the day-job whilst knowing this is not my whole life whilst taking incremental steps towards my purpose simultaneously…. ? If you want change then this might be just how it needs to be for a while! Keeping a tight hold of your intention, whilst seemly doing just what you don’t want, in order to support you to do the things you do want ….

A driving lesson reinforced this for me. In a slightly left-field attempt to help me to gain more breaking finesse (I am a left-footed clutch genius & a breaking disaster!), my instructor encouraged me to drive barefoot …. 

Whilst battling to locate the pedals in my footwear-free state I gave mixed signals to an oncoming driver, he laughed, I lost it, I stalled. I NEVER stall! 

What I had done was change my mind half way through, confusing everyone involved. I had neglected to hold my line……

In this society we are not encouraged to commit for the long haul. A job is no longer for life, a marriage often likewise, we throw away a lot of what we buy. We replace rather than make-do & mend. We keep zigzagging, refusing to hold our line, we confuse ourselves and others about our intentions, and repeatedly we stall!

So what if we saw our career as ‘for life’ even if the job for life has gone? What if we came to know that it is us as individuals that form the linch-pin of our professional development? What if we took control & skilled ourselves to manage our own profile career? What might happen if we had patience, committed for the long haul and held our line?

Might we manifest just what we set out to do!

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