Success reloaded. Masha Ibeschitz

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СКАЧАТЬ "So, you've decided to take the new job?"

       "I don't even remember why I hesitated in the first place. Japan! A whole new world, wow! And then all those awesome cities I will regularly have meetings in: San Francisco, Toronto, Johannesburg, São Paulo, Beijing, Mumbai, Qatar, Moscow. And teams from all these places and cultures. The diversity – absolutely amazing! And most of all, I will finally be able to help develop strategies that will be implemented globally. Globally, not just between Vienna, Düsseldorf and Sofia."

       "I am happy for you. You're gonna do great. And you're gonna have fun."

       "Yes, I think so, too. But I will only do it if it's ok with you that I'm stationed in Japan and will be traveling even more. If not, I decline and stay here. There are many great jobs in Austria or Germany with exciting companies that I can apply for."

       "No, do it, Patrick! By all means! It's the next step for you. I have no right to stop you, considering I'm hardly at home myself. Everything will work out, even for us. But it won't be a nobrainer. We have to figure out a way to see each other regularly. I mean, a lot of things can be done virtually. Even I know that. But we still need a plan. Because if we don't see each other at all – even our relationship won't be able to handle that." Patrick nodded in agreement.

       "In fact, there's not much about living together that I want to do virtually," Laura added with a smile.

       Connecting all points of life

      Patrick has arrived at one of the most significant learnings we can gain from dealing with our past: He knows what he has already achieved, how he has done it and what resources he has at his disposal to repeat these successes at any time. He understands his personality and his strengths and affirms them. He knows that others are successful in other ways. They may be more persistent, more organized, or make more specific plans for their future. Although Patrick knows that empathy is certainly not a "floor" that requires a long "elevator ride", they may also be more empathetic. Patrick doesn't need to worry about how others do it. He doesn't need to adapt their way of doing things for himself. He has confidence in his own biography and is now considering the future with confidence, curiosity and composure.

      We can all develop this confidence in our own success story. Take one last look at the sticky notes containing your successes. What a wealth of experience! Almost a work of art, isn't it? Even at the risk of being sick of hearing Steve Jobs quotes – or knowing the most famous ones by heart: The Apple co-founder aptly called this "Connecting the dots" in his famous Stanford speech, when we connect all the seemingly random points of our biography in spirit and suddenly recognize a harmonious, coherent unity, a type of artwork. Maybe it is just something we construct in retrospect and defy the coincidences of life. But maybe your Higher Self or the Universe has thought of something at all your stations. No matter how you look at it, contemplating this picture, this work of art of your life, can be a tremendous source of confidence.

       Never underestimate the power of failure!

      I don't know what you have written on your sticky notes and considered worthy enough to appear in the "temperature curve" of your successes. All I know is that many people like to leave out things that may seem self-evident. For example, having a high school diploma, having studied or being loving parents to a child or children. Precisely because all this seems so obvious, it is often forgotten about. However, these fundamentals are the resources that quickly provide us with the support we need when we recall them after setbacks or in crises. As paradoxical as it may sound, even our greatest failures still belong on the list of our greatest successes. After all, we have managed to stand up again and almost always learn something from it. Simply ask yourself: What were your "greatest" failures so far? Your most educational crises? What has really shaken you up and then made you carry on more vigorously than ever?

      A woman I worked with – let's call her Cathy – once slipped into such a severe crisis that she could not even cling to her life's obviously self-evident facts. Cathy was in Hong Kong on a business trip when her husband emailed her to tell her that he wanted a divorce. In the same email, he confessed to her that he had been having a mistress for five years, whom he now wanted to marry. Cathy's husband was the love of her life. They had been together since their school days and she had married him when she was 19. With that email, her entire world collapsed. Cathy called me, crying softly, seeming apathetic. I asked her, deliberately out of context, "What subject did you major in?" She had to think for a surprisingly long time and later said that at first she had the feeling she couldn't remember. Everything was gone. Later, when Cathy got back on track and had gained a renewed zest for life, she had her university diploma framed behind glass and hung it on her office wall. She never wanted to forget who she was and what she had already achieved. Cathy is now able to recognize valuable resources even in seemingly self-evident situations.

      There are no obvious successes. Everything you have achieved to date makes you special and can give you strength for your future.

       Chapter 2: Questions for reflection

      ● When you look at everything in context: What made you the person you are now?

      ● If you are a woman: In which situations did it benefit you and in which situations did being a woman hinder you?

      ● If you are a man: In which situations did you willingly meet society's role of a "typically male" and in which did you not?

      ● What other elements of diversity in your life have contributed to or hindered your success? (e.g. age, origin, culture, religion, etc.)

      ● If you review all your success strategies once again: Do you have one or more preferred strategies?

      ● If you had the choice: Would you do everything the same in your life again or would you do something different? If there is something you'd do differently, what is it and how would you do it now?

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