Writing a blog on LinkedIn for me has become two things for me. One it allows me to promote my business. Secondly it helped me to figure out what kind of coach I want to be. The more words I write the more I was able to analyse certain things about the way I work. The things I like and the things I need to change. I devour articles on being a better coach, constantly watching out for material that might be relevant to my clients. I try to ensure what I write is helpful even if it is only a small facet in someone’s life.
When you are having a few issues at work, try to put things into perspective. If you are in good health and your family are well then you have all the riches you will ever need. This is not to say life will be any easier, far from it, but if their stars aren’t shining brightly, your world will be a lot dimmer. Pour your energy into what matters. Dedicating your heart and soul to a job is all well and good, as long you aren’t neglecting the people that are important in your life. Time is precious and the great moments in your life come and go in the blink of an eye. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to make a success of our careers we miss the things that really matter.
I remember bringing my Gran-dad home from my parents’ house one night, at the time he was suffering from the onset of Alzheimer’s. While I was driving him home he pissed himself in the car. All over his trousers and all over my passenger seat. My initial reaction was to be more concerned about the car seat. As I was helping him out of the car, he kind of laughed the whole thing off and apologized. His words to me were “don’t worry I’ll be gone soon and you won’t have to worry about me much longer”, but it what he said after that has always stuck with me. “Don’t be worrying about little things, look after your family because it all comes and goes, and it will feel like minutes”
Whenever I go back to Ireland, my time there absolutely flies in. I try to pack in as much I can with my family. The gaps in between waiting to go back can feel like an eternity so it’s important that I make the most of that time. No matter what you have on you should make a conscious effort to have time for those who are important to you. Don’t sit around saying I’ll see them next week or ill help them out when I get time. Procrastination is the steal-er of time and dreams. Don’t look back at something with regrets and wish you could have done more.
Change comes to all our lives everyday whether we like it or not. It’s the hand that life deals us, it can be cruel or be kind. So learn to enjoy the moment when you are given the opportunity to, because eventually tomorrows dreams will be yesterday’s memories. Life can move very fast, it can turn from heaven to hell in a split second. At the same time it can swing the other way. At some point we are all going to have to face bad times, its how we deal with these during and after that is the making or breaking of us. Even in bad times we need to try and look for hope no matter how small the glimmer is.
In the words of Tony Soprano “To the people I love. Nothing else matters”