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 why this happens. The second is when we don’t know who we want to become.
If you don’t know where you want to get to, then all ways forward will seem equally irrelevant.
Several 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 automatically gain a clearer sense of what inspires us most and what we most want to avoid.
- Chapter 5 uncovers our purpose and values. These bring us long-term direction to any situation and guidance about what matters most to us.
- The tools of Chapter 4 explicitly help us to define the future we most want to create for ourselves.
- 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 uncertain. 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 is to choose the best way forward for us, and the more inspiration we then 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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