There are certain people who reveal themselves ONLY in demanding situations.
Surprisingly enough, you sometimes find them occupying safe and sustainable positions, in a slow-paced company for years – sometimes decades –  taking the path of security.
I would know, I work regularly with some of them.

The problem is that they are not frequently challenged. They are not flirting with the “edge of the cliff,” and over the years they end up appreciating the softness of that “self-killing-comfort”.
After years of leading successful and smooth professional journeys, they end up calling on me, intent on soul-searching, without a clue as to what could be wrong with them. They are looking for that missing piece, and for their true fulfillment.

I call them “Sleeping Beauties”.
Sleeping Beauties are:

1. Doing OKAY… They sometimes feel bored, but they believe it’s normal.
   
   
2. Not using their full potential. (Don’t start with the...

I work with a (too) smart and promising client who hired me to help her build a career she would be proud of, after having raised a beautiful and strong family.

After several sessions, I noticed a pattern: No matter what questions I posed, she used the first 15 minutes to relate the hurdles and difficulties her country and community were navigating. Civil war has torn her country apart for 40 years and it is economically, politically, and now “pandemically“ devastated. As everything is collapsing around her, her feeling of helplessness naturally increases day after day.

We all experience this feeling of everything falling apart sooner or later: unsatisfying situations in our jobs, in our relationships, in our lives.
Yet, even amid the chaos, we still have some power. And this is exactly when we are compelled to use it.

Her country needs her full energy and engagement to manage its rebirth. She knows that she has to be a part of the solution.
Unfortunately it is simply...