I walked into a Huawei store in Shanghai and found a Porsche.
While in China just recently, I was moved to reflect about luxury.
Here I was: surrounded by smartphones, tablets and connected watches.
But also diamond watches, a high-end Berline, an impressive SUV – and a sports car.
Apple, Samsung, Rolex, Lexus, Mercedes and Porsche lookalikes.
In a communist country 🤯
I realised I had once defined luxury exactly like that.
Surrounded by all this opulence, I found myself reconnecting with the thing I now value most.
Though I love my creature comforts, my favourite luxury is time to think.
The ambitious professionals I speak with typically have none of it.
Not because their calendars are full but because they prioritise doing over reflecting.
Delivering over strategizing.
Rat race over purpose-led life.
Yet another case of Relationship Friction with oneself:
the erosion of the self that comes from not listening to oneself.
Coachees come to me from a place of crisis.
Something literally ruining their work life.
They want it sorted ASAP.
I invite them to breathe.
The Relationship Wisdom pivot: pause and begin to hear yourself.
What insight bubbles up?
What is your intuition telling you?
How are you doing – really?
As you look forward to your well-deserved summer break, enjoy these luxuries:
And the time to think by the seashore or the pool.
This may be the most valuable thing you do all summer.
“The best things in life are free (yeah)” Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross 😎
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