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Ego Reattachment
During times when we have no great career accomplishments, it is important to have outside accomplishments. This is the way we re-attach our ego to our accomplishments. I suggested that a friend who was going through a low time after selling his company to find personal accomplishment in a non-career arena. Several months later after I made this suggestion I saw him, and to my surprise he had lost forty pounds. He said, "I took your suggestion and it is working, not only have I lost the weight that I should have lost, but I've also won the doubles tennis championship in the club. " He had rediscovered the joy of accomplishment.
Every career has its deadspots. We all hit plateaus on the climb. Rather than let it throw us off track we can redirect our productive energies into an avocational direction. We can channel our need for accomplishment into charitable or ministry outlets. We can develop new skills and broaden our current interests. The lull in the career won’t detach the proper use of ego gratification. It is important, of course, that these ancillary accomplishments do not become an escape nor that we let our avocation take over our vocation. The principal idea is to keep experiencing a productive life ---- that we continue to contribute and know the sense of accomplishment.
