Should I Stay or Should I Go?
(The Clash)
If I go there will be trouble.
An’ if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
This indecision’s bugging me
All week (I know it is only Tuesday by the way), I have been thinking about what to write about. I find that I can’t actually write about something unless I really feel it in my bones. So far this week, no luck – lots of false starts, but it just felt like words on paper….
But then, Inspiration struck. Hard. I was interviewed for a podcast called Life After Corporate (Perfect name, right?) and the episode is called ….Should I stay or Should I Go? I mean does one have to be hit over the head to find a good topic to write about or what?
In true transparency, I was afraid to listen to the podcast.
What if I sounded ridiculous or embarrassed myself about something/anything I talked about? Oh, that pesky Gremlin seriously needs to take a break (see last email for more details on the Gremlin). So, despite the trauma I was sure I was going to feel once I listened to myself, I sat and listened to the podcast. And, you know what? I sounded like me. Straight up honest and direct. Deb Boulanger is a masterful interviewer. She also had left her corporate gig and is doing amazing things for so many women. Thank you for doing what you do, Deb.
It would be impossible and incalculable for me to tell you how many times I thought about leaving my job. Side note, I did leave my former company several times but this company just got into my soul. It is a very special place with very special people. But it was no longer serving me (such a coachy term)
I have written exhaustively about my inability to dial my work habits back. But this time, my body was giving me huge signals that is was time to go. And, I finally listened.
This is true for many of us – there are conversations you have inside your head that are on constant loop – should I stay or go in this relationship, should I stay or go with this job, and on and on. We all do it. Every.Single.One.Of.Us. What you may not realize at the time is how much energy this takes out of you when you are so caught up in an infinite loop of indecision. If you believe in the premise that there are no mistakes in life, what would you do if you knew that nothing bad was going to happen to you? What steps would you take to create the life you really want? What is in you that needs to be resolved in order for you to believe in yourself enough to put this conversation to bed.
I am living proof that coaching works. I want you to stop living in your head and start living your best life.
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