In our business lives, we sometimes wish we had a coach or guru to lean on to help us with our decisions. We frequently think it would be wonderful to defer to someone with a higher level of leadership. Not everyone has someone like this in their lives, and yet each of us has a formidable teacher always beside us, and that is our life itself.
Our business lives provide us with people and experiences on a daily basis replete with opportunity if we are open to accepting this wisdom. We can learn wisdom from every single business contact, from the fellow at the desk beside us to the manager in the next department who doesn’t even look wise. Ofttimes, the lesson will teach us what to do, but sometimes, the lesson teaches us what we should never do.” Tucked into every interface we have is a lesson. Some of them are insignificantly small and some are of enormous impact. Wisdom points to our learning exactly what we need to learn via the lessons presented throughout our day.
Outside of business, we can learn wonderful things from our family and friends. We can learn about patience, about courage, about how to acquire new skills, about what works in a relationship and what does not. You can take the things you learn outside of work into your business life and help it to flourish and prosper.
I find it of great help to remind myself daily of the following:
- My life is my best coach.
- Today, I’ll be alert for the lessons.
- I am open to receiving the wisdom from today’s lessons.
You may ignite the success you so enjoy and desire more of it if you think about what your life is trying to teach you each day. The administrative assistant who arrives late may be teaching you compassion. The middle manager who drafts an inventive proposal may be teaching you to recognize the good. Being late for an appointment may be teaching you humility and flexibility. The gift box is seldom empty, regardless of how well or how poorly it is wrapped. You can trust your mind to give you the perfect lessons. Lean into it; it’s your inner coach and it provides the best leadership for your life and your business; There’s no limit to the number of questions you can ask; be open to hear the answers that your life will provide you.
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