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 feel uncertain about how best to move forward.
There are three main reasons this can happen. The second of these 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 of the tools of Inner Leadership can help to bring us 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.
- The tools of Chapters 2 and 3 bring us tools that help us make clearer sense of the situation and identify more alternatives for action. And as we do this we will automatically notice which options most inspire us and what we most want to avoid.
- Chapter 5 uncovers our purpose and values. These show us what matters most to us and also bring us 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 if we know who we most want to become, then we can choose the best way forward for now, and we can inspire ourselves to get there.
This is another step to becoming antifragile.
Have you ever struggled to choose your 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.
You can sign up to daily posts here.
You can buy the book here and the workbook here.
(And remember: you can’t learn to swim just by reading about swimming, you also have to do the practice.)
Photo By Nationaal Archief via StockPholio.net