Work In Colour - Work. Think. Live. In Colour
Wednesday 6th January 2010 | 4 comments
I have just taken on a new teaching gig, in an organisation where I trained 17 years ago. The guy who handed the course over to me was a friend, someone I had trained with. While we were chatting, he told me a story I hadn't known before - that he became a teacher because of something I said to him all those years ago about my own life.
I told him at that time that I'd decided to leave the law and become a teacher/trainer/coach after thinking about the Shakespeare quote, 'All the world's a stage'. If so, I figured (not the first person to do so, I know...) that we could potentially play many roles - lead part, chorus, set design, waiting in the wings, understudy, dresser or whatever. At that time, I had the deep sense that I was participating in the wrong play altogether, and it was time I took a lead role in my own story.
Apparently, this prompted my friend to wonder whether he was playing too small in his management career, and should step up to become a teacher - a dream he had long held but felt unable to reach. He became (and still is) a first-rate and much-loved teacher over the years.
So, at the beginning of a new year and new decade, maybe it's time to ask yourself: What role do you want? Do you need to change plays like I did, or is it a matter of auditioning for a bigger part in the same play? Or do you need to celebrate the fact that you are already playing exactly the right part for you?
Are you occupying centre stage in your own life?
Thoughts welcome...
Nice thoughtful post in a convenient snack size!
Thanks Michael, I guess it is short and sweet (groan...)!
Hi and thanks for great timing. Words make worlds and my world is full of just these thoughts these past few weeks. have decided to plunge in and do business as usual as well as business I love - s a bit like living in a three-ringed circus or multiple concert event! And, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Hi Svea, what a great metaphor! There were certainly days before Christmas that my life resembled a three-ringed circus (complete with lion/labrador...). So long as you're the ringmaster and not the clown, all should be well!
(And I wouldn't have it any other way, either!)