They say a diamond is just a piece of charcoal that has learned to handle pressure exceptionally well.
This time of change is forcing us all to handle extra pressure. And The Churning, Inner Leadership is a book that not only shows us how to do that better, but also shows us how to use that pressure to make ourselves stronger and more inspired.
The book does this by showing us how to improve our abilities at seven key competencies or skills:
- Remaining calm, centred, and grounded, even in a crisis, deeply connected with who we are at our best and what matters most to us
- Making clearer sense of the situations we find ourself in
- Finding more options to move forward
- Choosing our best way forward, even when the situation around us is unclear and the outcome uncertain
- Using our purpose and values to help us adapt faster to a changing world and yet also that maintain our direction and inspire us to do more
- Describing our chosen way forward in a way that inspires us, and the people around us, to long to make it happen
- Maintaining and building our inspiration as we move forward
For the next 100 days or so, this blog will bring you one key extract from the book each day: one from the Introduction, then one from Chapter 1, one from Chapter 2, and so on.
If you haven’t read the book, this will give you a sense of what it is about, including many (but not all) of the more than 30 tools and techniques it contains.
If you have read the book, these posts will act as daily reminders that help you to support and maintain your practice, to develop and deepen your abilities.
The more you master these seven skills, the more antifragile you will become: able not only to survive the changes that are happening but to use these changes to become a stronger and more inspired version of yourself — to become the diamond you most want to become.
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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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(And remember: you can’t learn to swim just by reading about swimming, you also need to do the practice.)
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