Chapter 91: What price are you paying for NOT changing?
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
Bill Clinton
Another question that forced me out of my comfort zone when I was evaluating
my situation was,
“What is the price you are paying for not taking action?”
I
was on the worst possible way to being seriously burnt out. Of course it was very
risky to just walk away from my secure job without putting up a fight in the
worst economic crisis the world had seen, but what was the price I was paying to
stay? Serious health problems? No thanks, buddy! I’m out of here. Since then I
never looked back.
Many years ago my boss at Volkswagen in Mexico came to me - the intern – and
said, “Marc, I don’t know what to do any more. I’m close to a breakdown due to
stress, but I’m on a three years Expat-contract and if I break it, I will be looked
at as a failure at the headquarters in Germany. What would you do?” I told him,
“Look, your health is the most important thing you have. If this job affects your
health any more, leave. Because if you get a heart attack and die, the people that
are now giving you the worst time will say what a great guy you were at your
funeral in front of your wife and kid. I’m talking from my own personal
experience: the people that harassed my father the most at his work, actually
wanted to speak at his funeral! Unbelievable! For now, I would hang in there and
see what happens, because I really believe that life is a miracle, everything
happens for a reason and in the end everything is always going to work out!”
Two months later he contacted me from Germany. He was still on his Expat-
contract, however he had returned to Germany and was working on a new
project with far better work conditions! Life is a miracle – it always works out in
the end!
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