The whole week I was so excited anticipating our Friday night, we planned to watch TENET, Christopher Nolan's last movie.

For those who haven't had the chance to watch it yet, it belongs to the small collection of films that challenge your brain, open your mind and bring you deep into the unknown. In other words, you have to watch it more than once to grasp everything that it is has to offer.
This movie has one of the most complex (if not the most) scenarios in cinematic history. You might be bewildered by it, especially with its complex timeline that keeps shifting and reversing along the way.

Hold up! Why am I talking to you about this movie?
It’s simple: It highlighted (like no other - and in spite of itself) a huge component of Achievement.

"How is this possible?" I violently blurted out, shortly after starting the movie.

Contrary to what you might assume (yes, for those who already watched it, I’m making an assumption about your assumptions) my hostile disbelief...

Regularly, my wonderful clients surface profound questions that sound like Shakespearean quandaries. Deep, existential thoughts punctuated with a desperate question mark.
I can feel their urgency to get my answer right away on the phone.

This morning, 8 am: How do I know how far I have to go to adapt myself to a certain situation?
Excellent question, isn’t it?
To adapt to others or not to adapt, that is the question.
It is always followed right away by another, more implicit one: Does it mean I am not flexible or agile enough if I don't do so?
Another great point.

These questions are not incidental, as they take place in our daily professional and personal dramas. I’m certain you’ve already asked them of yourself.
Actually, what is your current issue that makes you wonder if adapting and adjusting yourself is the required move? There must be one. There is always one.
Take a second and bring it now into your mind to make the most of what I’m about to share...

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...