Metaphor for life
I am finding life and work a tad tough right now. One of my clients put me on notice. I’m sad about that - it’s a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to them losing a client and re-assessing their baseline costs. Sure it’s cheaper to not have to pay me each month. But they also put aside the cold calling person I’d installed. Their logic says it’ll be cheaper to do it ourselves. But….. (no need to finish that sentence, I know what I think).
It reminds me of my time at Edward Erdman / Erdman Lewis / Colliers Erdman Lewis (same firm : multiple names) during the real estate recession of 1991-3. I lost three jobs in three years by being made redundant because at the first sign of trouble, they fired the marketing department.
At that time I had just succeeded in getting the company to write it’s first ever proper business plan - 14 departments all writing to the same template and including their predictions about how they were going to use the central resources (IT, the library, HR and Marketing) to support their own business for the forthcoming year. That was no mean feat. It is still the best lobbying job I have ever done. Ever.
As I sat in a business planning meeting with the man from the accountants who was to become the administrative receiver he turned to me and whispered "I think you and I are the only people here who understand this document and what needs to be done going forward".
I answered "yYes, but what you don’t know is that I have been made redundant and will be out of here on Friday!"
Guess what happened next?
‘Nuff said about them.
And so… to ramble on…..in an effort to break the chain of events that led me to feel down and lacking in the ‘ease’ which accompanies being on the right life-path, I have decided to do some investment in me and my business. I will post more about that later on.
Here is how it should be…… think about ‘glide’ as a metaphor for the ease with which your life happens and directs itself to maximal effort in the direction you want to go. Here’s a link to a top world athlete who tries to explain how it works for him and what it means.