We have this saying that time will heal all things. I have come to learn that this is just a easy escape, avoid having to deal with what you are facing or have created. Time, is not your friend. Have you ever noticed how time does not and have never taken you into consideration! It doesn't care, it just keeps on ticking. All it does in any situation is run out!
I so often hear from my clients, especially in the corporate world at executive level, that there is just not enough time for them to get everything done. It is work....and more work, and family and social life (well what is left of it).
They end up being tired, drained, unhappy and unfullfilled. They are chasing after something they don't even know anymore. Well, they thougth they did when they started climbing the ladder, thinking that when they get to the next step they will be happy. It did not happen. Then maybe the next step....and still it did not happen.
Behind them lies broken and hurt relationships. Each step they climb they leave a few more scars behind and or reinforce the ones they created on the previous step. Yet they just carry on. Until they get a wake-up call. Someone close dies, their child gets into drugs, their marriage is threatened by a divorce, or they face losing their job.
Then you end up facing what you have done with your time, your choices and what is/was truly important in your life. The sad reality is that becoming aware of it does not change the consequences, they don't disappear and they don't become lighter.
So what is important to you? What is truly so deeply important to you? Let those things take priority in your choices and what you do with your time.
The choice is yours. Are you going to take the next 30 minutes to think about it....or are you going to choose to take that time to climb the ladder?
What does your life look like?
What does your marriage look like?
tick tock, tick tock...........
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