A perspective on life worth considering...

It's time to break the rules...

Four short years ago I was imprisoned.

Imprisoned in my own limited thinking about what was possible for my working life.

Every morning I would take a deep breathe as I put on my ‘suit of armour’, before bracing myself for another day at the office. I would then jump on to a train packed with other people who were also bracing themselves.

When I finally arrived at the office I found myself taking orders from people that I didn’t respect, to achieve company objectives that I had no affinity with.

The question I had to keep repeatedly asking myself was ‘why?’

Exploring my rules around work.

When I finally made the decision to walk away from this life of quiet desperation, I knew that I had to begin by exploring what had been holding me back.

What I discovered was that the quality of my working life was being dictated by a set of rules.

Some of these rules were imposed upon me by other people whilst others I had imposed upon myself. Interestingly, the rules that caused me the most pain where the ones directly related to my own thinking.

It dawned on me that the rules I had constructed in my mind around work had kept me playing small by suppressing who I was at the deepest level.

Are the rules you are following really serving you?

One of the ways I was able to look at whether or not my rules were serving me was by considering what my life would be like if I actually won the game I was playing.

To help myself get a clear picture on this, I thought about the people I had come across in my corporate career who had ‘made it’.

Sure there were some nice perks, but the thing that stood out in my mind was that the vast majority of them had paid a very dear human price for their ‘success’.

This price had come in a variety of different forms, from high levels of work related stress, destructive addictions, health challenges and relationship breakdowns. On top of this, nearly all of them had aged well beyond their years.

It didn’t take me long to work out that this wasn’t a game I wanted to win.

Learning how to break the rules.

Intuitively I knew that I needed to ‘break the rules’ I had created for myself so I could establish more empowering ones.

One of my core frustrations of working in the corporate world was that I didn’t have any role models that I truly aspired to be like.

When I stepped off the treadmill and moved towards inspiring work, I was amazed by how many people I connected with who had already transcended their fears to do work that they truly loved. I found that magical things started to unfold in my life purely by being in their presence.

Experiencing the joys of these connections have made me even more committed to helping you realise more of your own personal truth so that you can do the same.

The one thing the world needs more of.

The world is crying out for more people to step out of the prisons of their own limited thinking and ‘break the rules’.

Following self imposed rules of disempowerment doesn’t serve anyone. You are far more powerful than you could imagine and no one really wins by you playing small.

If the time has come for you to step into work that brings you fully alive, then click the following link now…

www.alchemyofwork.com