The Churning, Inner Leadership provides you with a kind of workshop: a set of exercises and practical tools that you can use to build the seven skills, abilities, or competencies that make you antifragile in this time of change.
Those seven skills are:
- Connect more deeply with who you are at your best
- Get a clearer sense of what is happening
- Find more options for moving forward
- Easily choose the way forward that is best for you (even when you have little information about what is happening or how things are going to turn out)
- Consistently align your actions with your deepest purpose and values
- Describe your chosen way forward in a way that makes you and other people long to make it happen
- Maintain that inspiration as you move forward
These daily blogs are bringing you some (but not all) of the tools that will enable you to do this.
But in the same way that you cannot learn to swim just by reading a book about swimming, so you also cannot become antifragile just by reading these blogs. You have to do the work. You have to practice using the tools and exercises.
To make this easier, The Churning, Inner Leadership comes with a free downloadable electronic playbook or workbook. There’s also a large format paperback playbook/workbook that you can buy. Or you can use pen and paper. But you need to do the practice. Because, like the old joke says, the way you get to Carnegie Hall is by practice!
Inner Leadership provides you with a practical set of tools and techniques that first enable you to get clear on what ‘Carnegie Hall’ looks like for you and then create the inspiration that will take you there. But you can’t just read about these tools: you have to practice using them.
Are you clear what your equivalent of Carnegie Hall looks like — the ultimate destination you are trying to get to? Are you willing to do the practice that will take you there?
* The old joke:
“Excuse me please, can you tell me how I can get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice!”
Adapted from The Churning, Inner Leadership: a framework and a set of tools for building inspiration in a time of change.
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