To leave or not to leave

February 27, 2014 06:19 pm | Updated May 18, 2016 11:10 am IST

ALLAHABAD, 19/06/2013: Women walking on the banks of river Ganga  in the evening on June 19, 2013 in Allahabad.
Photo: Brijesh Jaiswal

ALLAHABAD, 19/06/2013: Women walking on the banks of river Ganga in the evening on June 19, 2013 in Allahabad. Photo: Brijesh Jaiswal

Isn’t it better to leave when people question why now instead of when?

Why are you leaving as against when are you leaving?

There were so many debates about Tendulkar and since he is a God let me not get into a controversy about him. But it is a fact that the media at least was hammering on and on about shouldn’t he leave? One feels so bad when a great sportsperson is visibly aged, visibly less powerful and gaming on against much younger sportspersons. It’s actually very painful to watch; almost bathetic.

How much worse when an intellectual giant like Peter Druker shows that senility can affect anyone. I attended a session of his when he came to Hyderabad and the less said the better! So what should be the rule? Leave when you are happiest? Leave when you know the beginning of the end is beginning, but by then it may be too late? It would be wise to get an unbiased third opinion or opinions and start detaching yourself and actually take a decision to quit and not procrastinate.

Take the Baba for example: he says he did not choose to be born into India’s First Family. What if he were to quit while he is still ahead? We would never know, would we, whether he really should have quit, and was it a wise decision? The problem of course is neither would he know!

Years ago when Hyderabad was in the cusp of becoming Cyberabad and the “pineapple building” circa Cyber Towers was known as Babu’s folly, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies decided to withdraw from this market saying Hyderabad was going to remain a small town with no big MNCs coming here.

There were about 40 employees who were given time to re locate, find new jobs and would you believe they did nothing! Instead of rightfully getting paid AND looking for a job they actually wasted three whole months sitting tight. That they actually found much better opportunities because their manager forced them to stop sitting around and doing nothing is another story!

What an opportunity it is to stop doing what you have always been doing and to start something new, which excites you, and you start with a new found passion!

This writer found a new path literally while walking in KBR: train to become a Life Coach. It’s early days here as one is first asked Life Coach? what exactly is that? If one were to say a football coach it’s so much simpler! But ah life? Isn’t life supposed to be lived and be done with or as the Baba said he did not choose to be born into the First Family. What if he were to go to a Life Coach and bared the goals of his heart and found out what his actual values were: not what his values should be?

(Founder, CoachLife) >www.coachlife.asia

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