If after a run your muscle don’t hurt and you are not short on breath, it probably means you have not exercised hard enough. You are ready for the next level.
Similarly, if you do not feel like you are a fraud and you are letting everyone down with what you do daily, it probably means you are way within your comfort level. You are ready for the next level.
We grow with challenges. And we should seek them regularly to continue our development.
When a crisis happens, we all want to move on. But if the situation is still bad, just say it is bad, do not try to sell the idea of a positive future that nobody can envision in the moment.
Of course, every crisis bears opportunities, tomorrow will be better, we will all get past it and we will be stronger. The problem is that if your rush past the bad situation, you will delay the time when good will come, you will miss on learning opportunities, and most importantly you will deny all those involved the chance to grieve.
Respect the time for bad.
In these times of change, we are going to stick to the plan.
Of course, you do not hear that. And that is proof of how poor plans usually are (for those who have plans at all), as well as of how impatient people grow when things do not work right here and right now.
The fact is, it is always times of change. Not always a pandemic, clearly, but a new competitor, a new market, a new boss, a new product, a new opportunity, a new regulation, a new standard, a new consumer behaviour.
Change is a given, in business as it is in life.
Hiding behind it to motivate bending the rules, going against your identity, cutting on kindness, should be done with extreme care.
There is no growth without crisis, and you cannot sow seeds without breaking the ground first.
Every low, no matter how desperate it might look, can be followed by the highest high you have ever experienced. No guarantee on the timing, but if you stay present, if you learn, if you develop, if you continue on the path you have chosen, if you open up, if you extend a hand, if you respect and appreciate, eventually the moment will come.
And when that will happen, you’ll have it confirmed that where you were is more important than where you are now. It is the journey that makes the destination, not the other way around.
Change is inevitable, constant, and necessary.
And when you think about being an agent of change, there is one simple thing that is worth remembering: start with yourself.
Changing yourself is possible, it is under your control, and chances are that by changing yourself you are also going to change the people and the world around you.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
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