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I spent over 20 years working in high-tech business. Many
of the jobs I had were fun and many of the people I worked
with have become lifelong friends. During the last 10 years
of this time, I had a growing sense that something was missing
for me, that what I really wanted to do was something that
would make a difference in people’s lives. It’s
as if there were of a pair of shoes that were only for me,
that were just my size... that were just waiting for me to
step inside them and start walking. I just didn’t know
how to find them.
During the last year in the corporate world when work had
become ever so challenging and the economy took a nose-dive,
I was becoming even more acutely aware of my growing unrest
and I realized that I needed to leave my job. Within a month,
I was laid off. I had seen it coming and at that moment, knew
that all was well and synchronistic as it could possibly be.
That did not mean, however it was smooth sailing from then
on.
Within a week, I saw an ad for a Coaching school and had
that resonant feeling that this was the right path for me.
I was on unemployment at the time and believed I better find
a job to tide me over while I was getting started as a coach.
For the first time in years, I actually saw a job advertised
in the newspaper that looked appealing to me, so I applied.
Two months later, I was called in for an interview. The
job would be challenging in some ways and was certainly a
job I could do and would draw on my skills as a Trainer. When
I received the call to come in for a second interview, I was
just about to leave for Module II of coaching school where
I had an incredibly profound and life-changing experience.
When I came home from the second round of interviews and knew
that I would be offered the job any day, I had a really good
listen with myself.
My gut intuition was telling me not to take the job. For
so many years, I had asked for an opportunity like the one
right in front of me, the opportunity to bring my unique gifts
and talent to the world, to make a difference. It seemed to
me that if I took that job, I would be saying, “No thank
you” to my dreams. So I turned the job down. My family
and friends thought I was crazy. But everything inside me
told me it was the right thing to do. Thus began my leap of
faith, leaping empty handed into the void as it were with
no job and limited unemployment benefits.
Through my network of friends and colleagues, I started contracting,
teaching and developing classes, such as Assertiveness, and
the Life Management skills I was learning as a coach. Opportunities
keep finding me along the way and my resume of coaching, workshops,
lectures and speeches continues to grow, and my sense that
I am right where I’m supposed to be.
This website is another step along the path of listening
to my intuition, my own LifeCompass, guiding me to keep walking
in my “pair of shoes”.
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