And here we are. What? Where? When? When, that we know, end of the year is coming and with it the time for a reflection and course correction. It is the time, we need to slow down our lives, which is kinda funny as most of us speed up to buy gifts, finish all the work, do this, do that and then, exhausted, try to bring our best to the family table during Christmas.

Slowing down, deliberately, is actually really hard and for me, even more important than ever. This year brought so many changes to my life, some I can easily share, such as moving out of our house to a city of Prague, regular psychiatry sessions, quite a step up on my coaching journey, trying to lead people, joining a triathlon club, starting to dance again, pushing myself to meet and talk with more people, and there would be more, but some I do not really want to share. It was a really tough one, I’ve been really down, although you who met me, you might have not seen it as I did not admit it to myself either. Fortunately, it’s starting to pull together once again and with the beautiful Autumn, telling us to wind down and rest, I am living here and now, and starting to change my life to be the way, I feel I want it to be.

The next year is almost there, will it also impact the life as much? I can already say, probably yes and I am gathering my strength for it. From January I am changing my work course and stepping out of the Technology world of corporations, a wild step, perhaps even a jump into the unknown waters. Yes, unknown, I know I love coaching, working with individuals and teams to not reach new highs, but rather orient ourselves, put both our legs firmly on the ground, slow down and focus on what is really important. Our world so often is focused on being productive, delivering faster, cheaper and with higher quality, yet, aren’t we loosing ourselves in it? I see it so often in this time of the year, companies asking people to just hold a bit longer, to just dig a bit deeper, and yet, I can’t shake the feeling we are just patching the holes and not healing the system.

As the next year comes, you’ll find me looking for ways to heal the system, not as a doctor, not by creating the most amazing and awesome artificial intelligence of our era, not as a politician or a leader of a corporation. I leave those to people, who are far more suited for those, than I currently am. Starting as a coach with people, helping them on their transformation journey, and through that, slowly changing the systems around us, that seems like a path I want to choose. Even though the path is quite foggy at the moment. With time and with all the amazing people around adding their bit and helping others, in schools, companies, corporations, public organisations, non-profit organisations, wherever it is, I really believe we can get there.

Will you join us?