Work and Entrepreneurship
You can
seem successful,
and slowly lose yourself in the meantime.”
Sometimes you reach a point where you notice:
You keep going, solving, organizing, carrying, but somewhere along the way you lose yourself.
From the outside, everything still seems to be running fine.
The business is running, or perhaps not... The calendar is full, or is actually emptying out even further.... People are counting on you, or perhaps not...
But inside, you feel more and more often:
I can't keep this up anymore.
Your head will never stop thinking.
Rest has become almost uncomfortable.
And the harder you try to maintain control, the emptier you slowly feel yourself becoming.
Or perhaps you see this happening to someone within your company.
An employee who gets stuck. Withdraws. Becomes irritated more easily. Has less energy. Or is slowly burning out.
Sometimes the cause lies not only in work pressure, but in patterns that have existed for much longer.
Patterns of bearing responsibility. Always having to be strong. Feeling no boundaries. Or completely losing yourself in what is expected of you.
In my coaching, we look not only at performance or behavior.
Sometimes you try to work harder,
while the real problem lies elsewhere.
For as long as the underlying patterns do not become visible,
Someone keeps running past themselves.
Only when it becomes visible what is truly draining someone,
can there be peace and clarity again
load-bearing capacity and movement arise.
Often, the problem lies not in the work itself, but in what someone has been carrying with them for much longer.
At some point, you know: you don't want to go on like this any longer.
You are merely functioning.
You drag yourself through the days.
From the outside, everything seems to be going well, but inside you are slowly collapsing.
You are tired, but you do not allow yourself to stop.
Your mind keeps analyzing 24/7. You lost yourself somewhere along the way.
You feel responsible for everything and everyone.
The harder you work, the emptier you feel yourself becoming.
Your business keeps running, but you actually don't anymore.
Rest no longer seems like an option.
You no longer know what it feels like to be truly relaxed.
You feel that things can't go on like this any longer, but you also don't know how to get out of this together.
Your employee is absent, but deep down you know there is more going on.
Someone on your team is slowly burning out before your eyes.
You get angry more easily, emotional, or completely drained
You feel more and more often: I can't take this anymore
You are tired of carrying, organizing, and solving.
You have become successful, but lost yourself along the way.
You have everything under control, except yourself.
Sometimes change simply begins with the moment you decide that things can be different.
