People achieve incredible things in their working lives,
But we only seem to hear a few outstanding career stories up close.
That means we don’t get to understand what makes most people tick,
The millions of different ways a person can overcome, succeed or keep going against all the odds.
Take Michael Collins for example:
He had one of the most celebrated jobs in the world,
But most of us only remember the two people he worked closely with for a few weeks in 1969,
(their names were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin by the way).
Michael Collins has been called ‘the other’ Apollo 11 astronaut,
Which seems a harsh way to remember someone who played a crucial role in one of the defining events of a century.
Michael Collins’ career was just as remarkable as his more famous co-workers and I want you to have this in mind when you think about another career that often gets overlooked. A career that can also be overshadowed by the achievements of others and the unfair comparisons made around it.
The other career I want you to think about belongs to you and I want you to do this because your career is worth exploring, because there’s always something new that we don’t already know, waiting to be discovered, waiting to be found.
No matter who you might have worked with, whatever they have done, however you have seen or compared your career in the past, you have a new story ready to explore, ready to be told.
Perhaps there’s no-one better than Michael Collins to remind us all of that.
The Eagle has landed
[Image courtesy of Scott_Calleja on Flickr.com]
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