Comments on: Are you Indispensable? http://nichollsleadershipinstitute.com/2010/01/are-you-indispensable/ Leading with Integrity Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Admin http://nichollsleadershipinstitute.com/2010/01/are-you-indispensable/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Admin Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:35:39 +0000 http://nichollsleadershipinstitute.com/?p=101#comment-3 Deb, I frankly think we have no choice but to be creative if we want to survive. I understand that survival mode, really I do. And yet what I also know is that sometimes that survival mode is a miserable place to be. In the last few months I have learned that when you really evaluate it, you have more skills than you know. It is our lizard brain that convinces us that we can't do anything different than what we have always done. And yes, I imagine sometimes that does mean living on less, and I've found in the last two months that is entirely possible, it just means adjustments. Still, I think it is worth it because of just what you said about your husband. Happier, less stress. How's that for an answer to your rebuttal? :) Deb, I frankly think we have no choice but to be creative if we want to survive. I understand that survival mode, really I do. And yet what I also know is that sometimes that survival mode is a miserable place to be. In the last few months I have learned that when you really evaluate it, you have more skills than you know. It is our lizard brain that convinces us that we can’t do anything different than what we have always done. And yes, I imagine sometimes that does mean living on less, and I’ve found in the last two months that is entirely possible, it just means adjustments. Still, I think it is worth it because of just what you said about your husband. Happier, less stress. How’s that for an answer to your rebuttal? :)

]]> By: Deb http://nichollsleadershipinstitute.com/2010/01/are-you-indispensable/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Deb Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:21:07 +0000 http://nichollsleadershipinstitute.com/?p=101#comment-2 Yes, but...(what a great way to begin a rebuttal!) Do you think that the general population now can afford to be creative? To step away from what they know and do to blaze new trails? I believe some of us are just in "survival" mode, panicking at the thought that we might not be trained to do anything else and still have bills to pay. I guess that is my "lizard brain" talking. My husband blazed a new trail for himself after being in the printing business for 30 years. Now he's doing what he loves and enjoys. Unfortunately, it's not nearly the money he used to make...but, fortunately for me, he barely has any stress in his part-time job as an employee and his part-time self employment--which means I can keep him around a lot longer. And I am a lucky woman! Yes, but…(what a great way to begin a rebuttal!) Do you think that the general population now can afford to be creative? To step away from what they know and do to blaze new trails? I believe some of us are just in “survival” mode, panicking at the thought that we might not be trained to do anything else and still have bills to pay. I guess that is my “lizard brain” talking.

My husband blazed a new trail for himself after being in the printing business for 30 years. Now he’s doing what he loves and enjoys. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly the money he used to make…but, fortunately for me, he barely has any stress in his part-time job as an employee and his part-time self employment–which means I can keep him around a lot longer. And I am a lucky woman!

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