Enjoying your wisdom era
I’m stuck in the Toronto airport, and even though I don’t usually send a blog on Saturday evening, I had some thoughts to share.
I was on PEI this past week for a family funeral. My brother-in-law who died had spent his life pursuing his love of horses, and he’d become an expert in these beautiful animals. When I pass away, what will people talk about at my funeral? So often we think of our passions as hobbies or guilty pleasures or unnecessary indulgences.
How can we find ways to make space for what we love in our day to day life?
I coached yet another person this week who was holding the belief that if she was enjoying her work or finding it easy, she must be doing something wrong.
I’ve written about this recently…the idea that we’ve been trained to believe that work must be hard. My client this week said it well: “If there’s no pain and anguish, is it really work?”
We get to a point in our careers where we have a lot of experience and knowledge to draw from, and that means that work feels easier. We’ve spent years learning and understanding how to best approach the problems and challenges that are involved in our particular fields of work. Just as my brother-in-law was incredibly comfortable with horses after decades of spending time with them, so too we are incredibly comfortable with the work we do.
That means you get to relax a bit and enjoy it. Let your clients and employers have the benefit of your knowledge.
You’ve paid your dues, now reap the fruits of your labour.