31/10/2022
We are constantly "getting consumed."
Getting consumed is different from working hard or being stressed.
Our day to day interactions include information consumption, taking high value decisions, managing conflicts, fulfilling expectations/desires or dealing with emotional rushes. Alongside there are some peace, love and happy moments which keep recharging us.
Now one asks, didn’t all of this always existed?So what's new?
It’s the rate of change at which all of this is happening. It is way faster than what we had grown up with. Imagine a test-series in cricket happening at the speed of T20!
As a result of this pace, it is leading to early life burn-out. Our lives ends up being in an overdrive without us even knowing about it until we see our bodies/organs/internal systems totally collapsing.
Many coachees I interact with, are now facing midlife crises in their early 30’s which earlier used to be a 40’s phenomenon. Exhausted and dissatisfied, they would say ‘we are finished, Kunal. We want to plug out and reboot but we don’t know how’.
The question I ask them, “How can we become more conscious of our actions and direction that we are taking?”.
Everyone’s life is unique and special. Everyone wants to move at their own pace . “How can you live your life by your design”.
For some the answer is they are able to recharge themselves to match this change, some decide to re-visit their choices and some decide to redesign and reboot their life.
There is no one answer to the question - but surely there IS an answer waiting to be found. We just need to look deeper - not outside - but within us.