There is no company in the world that does not want to increase their revenue.
So, if that is the main message you are giving your people, both internally and externally, be aware that your company is no different from any other company in the world.
What else do you stand for?
Fears build up within us. The reality is rarely as bad as we imagine it to be.
What is the worst thing that could happen? is always a very powerful question. We don’t need most of the things we want, and we don’t want most of the things we have.
Look your anxiety in the eyes and ask: What if I let it go? What if what I fear will materialize? What if the worst case scenario is what I will wake up to tomorrow?
I promise, more often then not, you will still be you.
And then you’ll have all the resources to get back on your feet.
When you are in a leadership position, it will happen that something your team has delivered will be questioned by those you report to.
What to do?
You can side with the managers. You can side with the team. Or you can communicate both ways to find a solution that serves the greater good.
The first two options are shortcuts. They do work, yet they make victims: your team in the first case, yourself in the second. On the other end, making an effort to explain, ask, compromise is an investment of time and resources when you might have little of both. And that’s how you establish relationships that will make your organization, as a whole, stronger.
We are the greatest enemy to our own purpose, satisfaction, betterment, fullfilment.
We tell ourselves stories about the world that merely reflect what we feel and fear. Others will think I am arrogant if I do that. I am not good enough. If only I could get someone who believes in me. They don’t want me here anymore. They don’t care.
We are in charge. And we have the power to change all that. Now.
I may be able to explore my past, recalling memories of incidents where I learned to hide from my life, feeling the churn in my gut that makes (and keeps) me exactly as I am. And I may be able to explore the future person I want to be, my preferred image of myself, my intended self-concept tuned to hope and maybe distracting fantasy. But between the past and the future there’s the Now, with its stubborn realities, with its unpredictability and hidden dangers. There, in the Now, that’s where the real journey is either embraced or rejected, a point at which I must make a choice about facing what I haven’t faced all along — and stick with it.
Dan Oestreich – The mutiny against our conditioning
We are fourteen months into a major health crisis.
Again.
We are fourteen months (for some, even fifteen, sixteen, or more) into a major health crisis.
It is ok to feel down. It is ok to struggle to find motivation. It is ok to feel stuck, to have the impression that nothing is worth taking on, to think that this is never going to end, to believe that we will be in the middle for the rest of our days.
This is called languishing.
And a good antidote to it, is to give ourselves uninterrupted periods of doing. An even better antidote to it, is to give ourselves uninterrupted periods of doing something that matches with our broader sense of purpose. Arguably the best antidote to it, is to give ourselves uninterrupted periods of doing something that matches with our broader sense of purpose, and then talk about it with other people who share the same interest, with our loving ones, with the community we belong to.
We might feel like this is never ending, yet it will end.
We might feel like nothing matters anymore, yet most things still do.
We might feel like we are alone, yet we are not.
Here are three links to check out to help us manage languishing.
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