Burn to rise

While life is squeezing everyone of us everyday, with new challenges to face and many question marks left without answers, it is important for us to learn how to survive crisis and how to keep jumping hurdles, even when we don’t have enough power to move .. A very challenging equation indeed ..

While coaching tens of people over the past years, here are the top 3 challenges I have seen common among the majority of people nowadays, and ways they managed to get over them:

1. The Envy eyes!

Life is becoming more and more competitive these days, and people, with the growth of social media and communication tools, compare themselves daily with everyone around them .. Competition is moving from the professional world into personal lives .. People compare, using social media, their family status, work status, financial status, and even the smile / happiness people around them have .. Isn’t that true?

Social media is moving from being a communication tool into a life comparison tool, and it is almost common to see people visiting profiles of their virtual friends to see how they are doing (silently), without bothering to ask about how they are doing .. So the actual interest in visiting the profiles is only to follow up on others’ news rather than communicating with them .. Want to challenge this? Look into your Facebook number of virtual friends, Linkedin, twitter ..etc, and check how many of them actually check on you … take the number, and then know for sure that the rest is only following your news.

What can you do about it? Delete all personal media / news from your Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media profiles .. Just keep public news and whatever you wish to share with your private circle, send it to them directly via the old way .. emails / direct message .. Keep your private stuff private! As simple as that ..

2. Hypocrisy

The more money you have, the bigger your job rank, the more you have power, and the more you simply have more of what people are running after, you will tend to hear a lot of flattery, have so many fake friends, and enjoy a wide circle of hypocrites around you who will do their best to look genuine.

Relating to the same area of “competitiveness”, hypocrisy is always a way to reach your goals easily through short-cuts, using super acting skills to show feelings and say things people never felt or meant. How common is this today?

Almost every retired / resigned executive I have met, say that they thought some people will still give them a call or check on them, and they never did. It is almost a confirmed rule of professional life today.

What can we do about it? Never think that you will have friends at work. Expect zero, so when you get it, at least you got what you expected!

3. Burn-out

The work environment and job market is extremely competitive today and the majority of people take the easy way to show their commitment and competitiveness; .. through hard work!

While hard work is a great dimension of successful people, but what most people ignore, is that it comes second to smart work! Working smart is much more important and higher in rank than working hard, and the picture above says 1000 words! If a race driver burns his tires in his first 1 KM, then he will definitely not win the race as they will not be able to complete it.. How true is this today?

What can we do about it? Prioritize, then prioritize .. Work smarter than ever, use technology to serve you and save time to important stress relievers in your life. Over-time is not an indication at all to how good you are .. Believe this firmly!

Landing announcement!

Since the beginning of life, human beings were able to survive and continue their journeys towards what they dreamt of .. The only thing that changed today is the number of distractions, and life commitments. Human beings today have complicated life more than ever, with so many simple things being super-analysed unnecessarily .. what we need to do to continue the human being journey on this planet is to simplify things once again ..

Learn to live alone, expect nothing from people around you, and never compromise the great for the good .. We are burning every single day moments of our lives that will never come back .. If we will burn them anyways and we can’t stop the clock from ticking, then let’s make this burning count .. Let’s burn to rise …

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Engagement Expert, International Speaker & Pragmatic researcher