"Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them."
"Endings are not only part of life; they are a requirement for living and thriving, professionally and personally. Being alive requires that we sometimes kill off things in which we were once invested, uproot what we previously nurtured, and tear down what we built for an earlier time."
Henry Cloud – Necessary Endings
I recently started the discovery process with a new client, and then they mentioned the book "Necessary Endings" by Henry Cloud a few times, so I decided to read it. I've posted about it a few times on social media, and that's been a good reminder for me that not everyone is as comfortable with closing the door on things as I am.
I take it for granted that everything has its season and that we have to know how to move on when the time is right. I think I've always been good at this, maybe to the point of being too quick to end things and move on earlier in life.
The last 2 decades have really hammered home the idea that nothing is forever.
When I became a social worker, I thought that I had found my forever career. I thought the same thing when I started working at Texas Tech and studying sociology, and I thought the same thing when I became a therapist.
Now, I don't know where the coaching and consulting will take me, but I do know that I will close the door on it when the time is right.
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