{"id":6460,"date":"2022-05-17T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2022-05-18T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:43:39","slug":"why-am-i-working-again-on-a-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/2022\/05\/17\/why-am-i-working-again-on-a-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I working again on a Saturday? I planned for this\u00a0not\u00a0to happen. So why is it happening again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One reason could be your\u00a0<em class=\"\">Immunity to Chang<\/em>e, a concept based on the work of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahay. They describe it as having one foot on the gas pedal (your goal) and\u00a0 one foot on the brake pedal (what gets in the way of the goal). The brake pedal is your immune system &#8216;protecting&#8217; you from undesirable outcomes that you&#8217;re afraid of. Kegan and Lahey talk about \u201cbig assumptions\u201d that make you press harder on the brake pedal. Such an assumption could be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-1280x1600.jpg\" alt=\"Let's change\" class=\"wp-image-6457\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-1280x1600.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/brad-starkey-5qFGBb4yUyk-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>\u201cIf I don\u2019t work extra hard, I\u2019m going to lose my job\/ clients\/ this project.\u201d (Resulting in your working again on a Saturday.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in overcoming your&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Immunity to Change<\/em>&nbsp;and need support, get in touch and find out more about coaching and how it can change your mindset; leaving you free to enjoy your life outside of work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photo courtesy of Brad Starkey\/ Unsplash&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason could be your\u00a0Immunity to Change, a concept based on the work of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahay. They describe it as having one foot on the gas pedal (your goal) and\u00a0 one foot on the brake pedal (what gets in the way of the goal). The brake pedal is your immune system &#8216;protecting&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,20,16,17,18,19,21],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-change","tag-enjoyment","tag-executive-coaching","tag-life-coaching","tag-mindset","tag-one-precious-life","tag-overcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilcollins.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}