I’m on Day One of my 3 weeks’ holidays sitting and enjoying our new home in Melbourne. It’s a different feeling as for once I can be switched off from work for one long stretch.
But oh! My mind funnily is suddenly telling me that I have just another 10 days before the year closes. And the Coach in me is provoking me with this question of “What has this year been for me?”
As my mind mulled through the last 12 months I could only recall the strides I’ve made in both my family and professional life which pleased me a lot especially climaxing this year with a new family home. Wonderful, isn’t it?
“Is this all?”, my questioning mind asked me. Then, in a flash, this one liner statement popped up: A GOOD year with a friendly reminder that I am not invincible; in fact very vulnerable indeed!
Yes, this is something I need to keep reminding myself or rather having it internalised is probably a more hard hitting word that I should carry around now with a very good reason.
This is the year that for the first time in 13 years, I had to take ’emergency leave’ and also had 2 replacement Coach-facilitators for 2 coaching workshops which I couldn’t do because of the double eye operations in August. My unblemished health record was finally broken. The ‘superman’ in me is finally over, with the spirit inside me saying, “You better watch out if you want to avoid any major disappointments in the coming future”.
It is not that I don’t take care of my health which I actually do but I need to do more, probably putting in even more efforts than I do for my professional life.
So this is my lesson learnt for the year – A friendly and important reminder.
Dear friends, what is 2013 saying to you before it closes?
Here’s wishing all dear readers Blessed Christmas, Happy Holidays & Happy New Year 2014!
