I’ve always been a person that struggles with making decisions. When face with one I tend to weight pros/cons, ponder over the consequences, overthink about all possible scenarios. So, while for me making a decision is a long process, once make one I often never second guess or regret it. Today I sign on a major one. Sign, because I know that the universe had been preparing me to make this decision for months now; but let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
On October 2019, I attended a women empowerment forum in which the presenter was a Latina woman senior leader. I’ll be lying if I said that I recall her words, but I clearly remember listening to her with a genuine sense of admiration. I was still a “new manager” at the time, trying to lead a large team while defining my leadership style and I remember feeling inspired by her and thinking “one day I’ll like to be like her: an intelligent, strong and inspirational leader”. Little did I know.
Back in January, I had a conversation with my manager. He told me that the company was trying to consolidate a Latin America region across functions and that as part of that, they were considering me to expand my responsibility from a country to a regional scope. He said that while we’ve been talking about my interest in switching to another function, this could represent a growth opportunity for me. I expressed my gratitude towards the consideration and offered that I could delay my move and stay for him if he felt that he needed my support on this restructure. Later in May, the day before I came back to Mexico after spending a month in Utah, I had a follow up conversation with him in which he let me know that while the consolidation was moving forward as part of the restructure my direct line of reporting was going to change, which I wasn’t excited about.
That day I had plans to meet for lunch with Jill Romboy. I met Jill when I worked for her in my college years and we have been in contact since then despite time and distance. She is a friend and a mentor, someone that I can trust and that I admire personally and professionally. I truly believe that the universe had me cross paths with her because I’ll need an angel like her to guide me in different stages of life. That afternoon, we catch up, talked about life (the good, the bad and everything in between) and I shared my concerns about the news I had just received and the options that I had; one of which I was completely closed to considering. She said something that left me thinking and I’ll never forget: “What if Heavenly Father is leading you to it for a reason that you can’t understand now?”
If you knew myself some years ago, you wouldn’t believe me when I say that some weeks later, on Jun 27th, I had my first session of Reiki Therapy and that for me was the start of a series of events that lead me to sign and return an offer letter today on a Sep 25th. The same day in which six years ago I started working for the company that I’m leaving now.
To be continued…
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