Last year, I stopped doing sales.
After years of always being “on”, chasing opportunities and constantly talking to people, I thought I was done with it.
I wanted more rest.
More time to enjoy life.
More free time.
And that sounds great, right?
But somehow, I became less happy.
More free time also meant more time to think.
More time to overthink.
And sometimes, simply more time to feel down.
Yesterday I had a call with Maarten, and we ended up talking about something I didn’t really expect.
I was needed in sales again, so I started doing it again.
And you know what?
I actually love it.
Maybe I’m just a workaholic.
Maybe I need a certain amount of chaos and energy around me.
But working makes me happy.
You get into a flow.
You meet more people.
You experience more.
You have wins and losses.
And somehow, life just happens more.
I’m almost forty now, and last year I was simply tired of working.
So in a way, I took a year “off”.
But instead of giving me more energy, it actually gave me less.
And now I’m busy again.
Doing sales again.
Meeting people again.
Experiencing things again.
And I feel more like myself.
Life is weird, right?
Sometimes the thing you think you need to escape from is exactly the thing that gives you energy.
Do you recognize this?
