This time of change is not only bringing us problems but also opportunities. But even when we know how to find those opportunities, the uncertainty of a changing world means that we can still sometimes feel uncertain about how best to move forward.
There are three main reasons this happens. The first is overthinking. The second is when we don’t know who we want to become.
If you don’t know where you want to get to, all ways forward will seem equally irrelevant.
By getting clear on where we most want to get to, who we most want to become, we enable ourselves to move forward faster and with more enthusiasm.
And several of the tools of Inner Leadership can help to bring that clarity:
- The tools of Chapter 1 enable us to centre, ground, and deepen our connection with what matters most to us, who we are at our best
- The tools of Chapters 2 and 3 bring us tools that help us make clearer sense of our situations and identify more alternatives for action. (As we do these things, we automatically notice which options we find more inspiring and which we most want to avoid.)
- Chapter 5 uncovers our purpose and values. Finding these reminds us of the people we most admire, which also brings long-term guidance and direction
- The tools of Chapter 4 explicitly help us to define the future we most want to create
- Chapter 6 enables us to describe what it is about this future that most inspires us and why
In this time of Churning, all ways forward are going to be uncertain, and all ways forward are likely to be difficult. That’s just the way it is. But when we get clear on who we most want to become, we make it easier for ourselves to choose our best next step, and inspire ourselves to get there.
This is another step to becoming antifragile.
Have you ever struggled to choose your best way forward? Was that because you weren’t clear who you wanted to become? Would it be useful to give yourself that clarity and inspiration now?
Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and a set of tools for building inspiration in a time of change.
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