“Working with your opposite style is always the best combination! If you are an optimist, you’d do better to partner with a pessimist. And the same goes for couples!” 

Where to begin… 

The skeptic in me: Should I start by challenging the notion that partnering with a pessimist would be solely and unequivocally beneficial for an optimist? And vice versa.

Or,

The hot-head in me: Should I start by demolishing the established comparison between Business and Love here?
Believe me, I’ve tested the glass-half-empty boyfriend, and I would sooner go to hell (i.e., remain single forever).

Now, that said ; 

-          I agree that a marriage of differences brings us to farther places than when we are both wired, thinking, and acting the same way. No doubt about that.

 

-          I also concede that having a...

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...