… and am I glad.

I like to live by the sun.  It is painful for me to go into daylight savings time and experience unnatural light at night.    I could never live in extreme northern countries.

I never see clients on the weekend, but sometimes I write all day and then suddenly it’s dark and I think wow! how did this happen.  But it is a good feeling, I’ve done something that I love to do.  Write.

This is important to know about oneself.  What is it you do that you lose time doing?  Aha, that is where some of your talents are. 

For instance, I would never lose time doing my accounting.  My back hurts, I eat more and I am always  aware of time. 

When time stands still we are in a time warp because we are in our talent base.  We don’t have a word for this, but the Greek’s do.  They have two words that mean time “kronis” as the god Kronis who goes from a baby in January to an Old Man in December. 

The other word for time, kyris, means that period for YOU when time stands still.  Beautiful huh? When I interview a client I look for this moment when her/his time stands still.  This is key.

I work to get this into a branding statement at the top of the resume.  I talk about this and tell my client how important this is to develop a branding statement for interview.

Why?  What we do easily, what we love to do feels as if anyone can do this, because to us it is easy.  The truth is that it is very likely to be hard for others.  For example, for accountants (I know this from interviewing them) working those spreadsheets—- is time stopping – kyris for them.  Because they love what they are doing– -number crunching—and it is their talent base.

Think about it.  When does time stand still for you? Mary Ann