It is rightly said that ‘every victory is a shared championship’.
Ever thought of your personal life champions who stand by you when things are bleak and scaringly frail?
In business and career, we have mentors and advisors who help us navigate our work lives. But, we need more of these micro-life inspirers and personal champions who become our guides in our uncertain lives. They help us see the bigger picture instead of leaving us to wallow in our darkness and panic pits.
Your personal champions could be your childhood friend or a new acquaintanceship you develop in your business trip. It can also be your spouse, or your sibling, or your college professor.
We all should have a warm support system that keeps us grounded and gives us – as Amy Edmondson says: psychological safety.
When we feel home with ourselves, our set-point of emotional endurance reflects our inner resilience to combat any obstacle we are faced with.
Maybe you lost your most admired and coveted job, or you feel insecure being alone – it could be any unknown and unexpressed fear that holds weight in our nervous system.
But when you share your fears and express them to your loved ones who been there with you through life’s deepest emotional valleys and success peaks, you feel so much lighter and buoyant inside!
So let’s do this homework together: let’s take a macro view of the people who have been there with us and championed our personal growth stories. And, now, reach out to them, meet them in-person and thank them for their implicit warm presence in our lives. These are – as Virginia Sharma says ‘your personal board of directors’, who we should always value and cherish and have a ‘shared reality with’ – espoused by David Robson, author of The Laws of Connection.
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