This time of change is bringing us opportunities as well as problems. 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 second of these is when we don’t know who or what we want to become.
If you don’t know where you want to get to, all ways forward will seem equally relevant.
Several of the tools of Inner Leadership can help us gain clarity around where we most want to get to, who we most want to become:
- The tools of Chapter 1 enable us to centre, ground, and deepen our connection with who we are at our best and what matters most to us. This reminds us who we are and where we have come from.
- The tools of Chapters 2 and 3 bring tools that help us to make clearer sense of the situation and identify more alternatives for action. As we do this we will automatically gain a clearer sense of what most inspires us and what we want to avoid.
- Chapter 5 uncovers our purpose and values. These bring long-term guidance and direction to any situation.
- The tools of Chapter 4 explicitly help us to define the future we most want to create for ourselves.
- Chapter 6 enables us to explore and articulate what it is about this future that most inspires us and why.
- And in Chapter 7 we learn to let go of the past and take the first step towards the future we most want to create.
In this time of churning, all ways forward are uncertain. And if we don’t know who we want to become then all ways forward are likely to seem difficult.
But the more clearly we know who we most want to become, the easier it becomes to choose the best way forward for us, and the more inspiration we give ourselves to get there.
This is another step to becoming antifragile.
Have you ever struggled to choose the best way forward for you? Was it 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 tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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