I feel I am driving downhill in a very steep incline road on a great car that my best friend lend me. He specifically asked me to take very good care of it because it is of special value for him.
As the speed increases I realize the breaks are not working. I look ahead and I see a solid wall. I can’t turn and all the basic tricks to stop the car aren’t working.
Every second the passes the speed increases and my mind is getting distracted by the words of my friend: take "very good care" of it. I fight myself to stay focus but pressure is up and the car just keeps going faster.What else can I try?
That’s my question.
I am determined to save the car but I know I may get hurt if I stay in it. This is just a distracting thought.
I am willing to try different ways but I know there are limited options to stop a car that is moving a great speed.
This is how I feel.
Not hopeless, not yet failure but not going in the right direction.
I have a path of success behind me and I am realizing that my previous successes were in big part determined by my ability to change the system or by the flexibility of the system to be changed.
That rule doesn’t apply anymore.
Relativism is a way out. Maybe there is not steep incline, maybe there is not wall, maybe there is not increasing speed, maybe there is not even a car or a friend!
Does thinking out of the box really works?
you should give this a read http://www.whomovedmycheese.com/?gclid=CKDKsJ7N2KUCFQaIDgods2xVkQ and if you want i have the audiobook! really good one.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one! I didn't thought about it until now. I read it in University -for a good reason :)- Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGo with the flow.
ReplyDeletea esto es a lo que llamo, ir con fe. Cuando uno sigue un camino de consistencia; cuando sabes que estuviste manejando a velocidad adecuada, que estuviste cuidando bien del carro de tu amigo; y cuando sabes que tienes buenas habilidades de manejo de vehículos... sólo te queda seguir allí; y estar atento a lo que ofrece este camino. Quién sabe, posiblemente hay una buena rampa a mano derecha para que la puedas tomar como emergencia y frenar el vehículo. O quizá sigues subiendo la velocidad pero no te fijas que hay un botón especial para frenar en seco. Tampoco sabes si llegando a cierto punto en lugar de ser una pared lo que ves a lo lejos es una rampa para entrar a la autopista.
Sólo anda con fe.
Juan,
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling the same way.
I've worked in three NGOs and at Siemens before going to the same company you are right now and it seems like everything I've done and I know how to do is not considered in this new position.
I'm starting again.
If you want to share your contribution and talk more about your position, my internal email at the company is "espinelli.j".
"A journey of a thousand steps begins with a single step", Lao-tzu.
I think I'm just changing the road I've taken before.
Thanks!
João Espinelli