Don't let your light dim

Few weeks ago, a dear colleague of mine, who moved to Europe in 2019, called me to wish a happy new year!

We spent some time sharing our plans for this bright 2021 and she ended up telling me she wasn’t ok.

After more than a year working in another country, performing in a different culture and reporting to a distant manager she said: “I am not being myself”.

Digging a little bit further she mention that due to the lack of feedback and after only receiving harsh comments when she didn’t do it quite well - remember she was adapting to a new place - she decided to stop talking, stop sharing her ideas and thoughts and the worst, she also stopped learning.

We’ve worked together side by side for a few years, so I know she is not like that at all! The lack of welcoming and incentives made her light dim and when I asked what she was doing about it she said to my total surprise: “nothing, I am doing nothing!

It took me one hour or so to make her see through my own life experience and examples I shared from my mentoring sessions that was on her hands the power to change the situation. Without expressing how she was feeling and without fighting to find a way back to herself, she was always going to feel that way - or eventually even worse!

Last week she sent me a thank-you note, recognizing that she was lost, and our chat empowered her to look for the necessary energy to act and change!

Very happy to help and even happier to have the opportunity to start this new year putting my purpose in practice: move people forward! Open to more opportunities to keep doing what I love in 2021!