My professional career has been, until recently, a succession of wrong decisions. One after the other. I could even put a slogan on it “making mistakes non-stop since 1999”. I have also had successes and joys, but my work has always been in a second (or third or fourth…) plane in my life as a whole.
In fact this is the first and main mistake I made. And this error is the one that triggered all the others: I shouldn't have separated work from my life.
I explain.
About five years ago I discovered Coaching. I was lost professionally. I knew what I didn't want (continue to do the same thing) but not what I wanted.
Coaching helped me to have a systemic vision of my life. In that process we didn't just talk about work. We talk about values, interests, pleasure, hobbies, my family, my friends, fears, joys. We also talk about work of course, but in a way that I didn't know. Looking inside myself and taking into account not only skills, salaries or opportunities, but many other things that, until now, I thought had nothing to do with work.
Now I know that surely nothing I do professionally is going to work well in the long term if it is not aligned with the rest of my life. Basically with three aspects: my values, my talents and my emotions.
Commonly, there has always been a tendency to classify certain professions as "vocational" (doctors or nurses, police or military, firefighters, politicians, teachers, etc.), but what if it turns out that all professions are?
If your work is aligned with your values and talents, your work will be a piece that will perfectly complement the rest of the aspects of your life..
If I had worked on self-knowledge, or put myself in the hands of a coach when I was a teenager, my path would probably have been more pleasant.
My work life is not perfect now and mistakes are still part of my day-to-day life (I think these fellow travelers will never abandon me, although to be fair to them, they are the ones who make me learn). But now I feel like everything is going somewhere. And everything rows in the same direction, although sometimes my arms hurt or I find myself with a treacherous current that takes me a little astray.
I am extremely pleased to participate in KitCo because it is a project that will help people find their way in a completely new and playful way.
KitCo is a tool to discover our own talents and values and analyze if we act according to them, it also allows us to learn from emotions.
I wish I had had a KitCo years ago!
