This time of change is bringing us both problems and opportunities. And even when we know how to find those opportunities, the uncertainty of a changing world means that we can still feel unsure about how best to move forward.
There are three main reasons this can happen. The first is overthinking. And 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.
Knowing where we want to get to will help us move forward. And several of the tools of Inner Leadership can help to bring us clarity about 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 what matters most to us and who we are at our best
- The tools of Chapters 2 and 3 bring us tools that help us to make clearer sense of our situation 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 and 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 uncertain and all ways forward are likely to be difficult. That’s just the way it is. But by knowing who we most want to become, we make it easier 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 tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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