I recently came across the saying “Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room.”
It got me thinking about the times I’ve walked through the wrong door or found myself in the wrong room (and there have been a few of them) …
🔶 Sometimes it takes wisdom to notice you’re in the “wrong room”. For me corporate law was the wrong room, though it was right for many of my friends. It took listening to my gut and realising I wasn’t living my values to figure it out.
🔶 It can take courage to admit you’ve opened the wrong door and do something about it, particularly if you worked hard to open that door in the first place (and particularly if it comes with a good pay cheque).
🔶 What was once the right room may not be right anymore. Its other occupants may have changed, you may have changed or life may simply have moved on.
🔶 Staying in the wrong room carries a real cost. Like carrying a dead weight that stops you ever achieving lift off.
🔶 Finding the right door and opening it can take time, energy and luck, but it’s never too late to try. And if the right room doesn’t exist yet, how about building it yourself?