Monday, November 24, 2014

It’s Okay Not To Be Needed

While on the road last week for a conference, I was thinking what could I do to help the service team. From time to time, I have this notion that I need to do something in order to be useful. I guess this comes with a service-oriented mentality. This is good for sure, but sometimes it’s actually not.

It’s okay not to be needed.

Let me drive my point. Sometimes we define our worth based on what we can do. So when we are not doing anything we say, “I am not needed anymore” and we feel helpless and depressed.

We don’t have to do something. It’s okay not being needed. Other things are best done by other people. We don’t have to insist on doing it ourselves. We need to realize that.


You just have to be there; presence is enough. You are valued as you are not what you can do.


by aats

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