What If…..?
by Ruth Ann Harnisch on 03/04/10 at 12:50 pm
Day 63
What can change if you take a sabbatical?
Just your whole life, that’s all.
Filmmaker Nic Askew created a five-minute portrait of a woman who changed careers twice. (She went from “nun” to “academic” to “coach.”)
The second change came about after she stepped away from her work for a year , just as I’m doing now.
I’m tempted to feel some fear about that – what if I end this year wanting to change everything? I answer myself: What if I DO? So what? If I wasn’t willing to change everything, I wouldn’t have started this experience.
I remind myself that I have over nine months left.
And we all know what can happen in nine months! We also know that what takes nine months NEEDS nine months. Many of my clients need that reminder – some things can’t be hurried if they’re going to turn out right.
“We teach best that which we need to learn most.”
4 Comments
Dr. Lynn K. Jones
Mar 4th, 2010
Hi Ruth,
I am going to be interested to read the blog post that announces that you have gone from journalist to coach to … nun!
LOL Lynn
Ruth Ann Harnisch
Mar 4th, 2010
That made me laugh out loud. Fortunately, my husband does not read this blog.
Rosemary
Mar 4th, 2010
Spanish grammar?
“We teach best that which we need to learn most.”
Christine Heinrichs
Mar 4th, 2010
Change is coming into my life, from the influence of your example and the many other inspired and inspiring people I know. The more I work on these new projects, the more time and ideas I have.
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