Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

What Happens When You Wake Up Hating Mondays?

30 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A man dreading his job calls in sick, hoping for the flu. Instead he ends up in the ER for two weeks, and the forced pause makes him realize his whole career path is empty. He discovers coaching and changes direction.

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Oh, well, I mean, I think a lot about the Joseph Campbell quote. If you can see your path all the way through to the end, you are following someone else's path. Your path only becomes clear moment by moment as each foot hits the ground. And that was me. I saw my path all the way through to the end, and I was definitely following someone else's path. And so one day I woke up on a Sunday and I thought, I hope I don't have to go into work tomorrow. Hope I get the flu so I don't have to go into work tomorrow. And I got the flu. 18 hours later, I was rushed to the emergency room. Yeah, it was very dramatic. And I was down for the count for 2 weeks. And then I realized this is not it. This is not what I wanna do. And then I had to seek out what is it? And that took a lot of seeking and a lot of, you know, searching. And it was like very challenging, but that's when I met the coach and I was like, that's what I wanna do.