You’re a high achieving, successful businessperson. When something important needs to get done with top quality, people come to you. In fact, you’ve built your career on producing and delivering results without fail, year after year.
But as we know, there’s a shadow side to the Type A behavior that builds thriving careers. Certainly there are physical impacts from the constant sense of urgency that pushes us onto the next thing and then the next. But there are mental, emotional and even spiritual impacts that, if left unattended, can lead to varying degrees of burnout.
I know, I’ve been there. And it’s hard to step off the spinning treadmill of productivity when you’re on it. In fact, that’s what led me to wellness. A vacation in the Alaskan wilderness almost 20 years ago gave me the distance and stillness I needed to understand that it was time to make a change and leave Wall Street. I began to get curious on how I might live differently, even as I continued to juggle professional career stressors with personal life expectations and desires.
But the real change – the most transformative shift of my life – started when I began to question my Type A lifestyle. Was there a kinder approach to getting things done without sacrificing the quality and productivity I consistently delivered? A modification or adaptation? I found the answer to be a resounding “Yes!”
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