If you have been in a Leadership position for more than five years and you haven’t taken a sabbatical, might mean that you and your team is not in a good mood. Sabbatical is a long leave, where you just rest and are away from the otherwise daily routine of life. A sabbatical is an important part of career as it helps you either hone the skills required for reaching higher positions, find another career path for yourself, travel the world, or just be with yourself and relish your company. It is like a recharge time, where you may find your abundant childlike energy, to rejuvenate your career. It helps you create a healthy atmosphere around your space, where you seem more present and aware. If you have a leader who doesn’t believe in taking time off, then you will feel like you are in a hamster’s wheel. Always in a illusion of moving forward but staying where you are. Strange but true most of us spend our lives in the illusion of moving forward and are always very busy doing it. This illusion provides us some sort of a daily purpose and keeps our grey matter active. The only flip side is that we never come to know what happiness truly means, what freedom truly means, we don’t even realize our multifaceted personality, which gets submerged into a mundane monotony. A Leader, who takes necessary sabbaticals and keeps himself energized, connected and happy can create a much happy atmosphere for himself and his team. Such leaders can bring in new thought processes and ideas, they do not believe in unnecessarily punishing themselves to a relentless mechanical life.
Sabbatical is a natural rest process, which is also given to the Earth, when farming is halted, so that the land can refresh and rejuvenate its minerals and nutrition. A land, which has had a sabbatical gives much more harvest than land, which has been depleted of all its nutrients and has to be boosted with chemical fertilizers and nutrients. A leader’s Sabbatical is like a Vision quest, which may help the leader deepen his/ her understanding of self and nurture the soul. When such a Leader comes back he/ she brings back compassion, enthusiasm and deeper wisdom to the work place.
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Published by Rashmi Dixit
My life journey began in a small village in Kanpur, U.P. I was raised by my grandparents for the first four years of my life. During the day I found myself running amidst the farms and the open sky, squinting at the sun. At nights I would sleep under the stars counting them and making weird patterns. The moon was my sleep partner then. My writing journey began at the age of thirteen, in Mumbai, when I bunked a class and found myself hiding from my maths teacher, amongst children, who were writing poetry for a competition. I wrote too, and to my surprise after a week, I was announced as the winner. Couple of months later I found myself battling lung tuberculosis, I was in complete isolation, but poetry gave me company. I wrote some really dark poetry around life and death and how beautiful death was. My writing and my imagination since then has been my greatest friend and confidant.
After my Post graduation in Microbiology, I was hired as a Scientist by a Multinational organisation. However, my soul kept humming a different song, although I was considered to have high potential and was known to be highly competent. After my marriage and two children, and nine years of corporate career, I jumped into humanities. I started conducting leadership workshops and interventions for organizations and I still do. My work helps me connect with the various aspects of human behavior and thus takes me closer to experiencing more of who I am. As a life and executive coach to several people, I observe their brightness and beauty, in their language and actions, and help them to see what I see. This helps them unleash their own spontaneity and experience more of who they really are. My work is my passion and it helps me grow. It makes my writing become more mature and rooted. Both writing and painting are meditative processes for me and help me explore new worlds, while creating deeper presence for myself.
I love to indulge in life, and I cheer for the same. I get excited and enthused about new ideas and great stories. I cry watching emotional scenes in movies and can easily get hooked on to some romantic drama. I love gardening and can be seen communicating with my plants in the mornings over green tea.
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