Are you Climbing up the Wrong Tree?

Are you Climbing the Wrong Tree?

Many Baby Boomers hit midlife only to discover that real happiness is still elusive even though they are successful and appear to have everything they want, or at least that’s the way it seems to everyone else. They are suffering from Passion Deficit Disorder.   

Without passion they are “climbing up the wrong tree.”  Many people get into jobs, careers, businesses and relationships because “they fell into them”, “it seemed like a good idea at the time”, “my parents said I should”, “I didn’t know what else to do.”  They can come up with numerous reasons for where they are in life but none of them involve “it’s my passion … my purpose … my destiny.”

If you’re climbing up the wrong tree, the best strategy at this point is to get down.  That makes a great deal of sense but we sometimes forget the basics and continue climbing, either in a career situation or in personal circumstances.  Instead of getting down and heading in a new direction (i.e. a different tree), we unfortunately attempt to develop other strategies to try and make sense of a continued climb up the same tree. 

Some of these “strategies” could be described as:

• Buying a longer ladder
• Forming a committee to study the tree
• Arranging a visit to other groups to see how they climb the wrong tree
• Lowering the standards so that the “wrong tree” can be included
• Hiring an intervention team to feed the tree and give it a new lease on life
• Reclassifying the tree as “the right tree”
• Hiring a partner to climb the wrong tree with you
• Buying a more sturdy ladder for greater speed in climbing the wrong tree
• Rewriting expectations for the tree
• Adding a second ladder on the other side of the tree for a different perspective
• Declaring that this smaller tree requires less of a cash outlay

If you would like to climb the “right” tree, the one that is perfect for you, contact me at evelin(at)blueprints4change.com and I’ll help you discover where that tree is and how to start climbing faster than you ever thought possible!