When your focus is on self-awareness and self-understanding, there’s a risk to end up feeling lonely and isolated. Partly because it’s yourself you are focusing on, and partly because it is difficult to relate what we feel and think to others (“Am I the only one who feels or thinks this?”).
The importance of those around you and of peer-support cannot be underestimated. Go on this journey with people you value and care about.
Is your company about business or about people?
Of course, the former is a given and the latter is claimed by the majority. Yet decisions and behaviour, particularly in difficult moments, tip the scale.
Another way to put the question would be the following.
In the past few weeks, have you asked your people to do more or have you offered to do more for your people?
The fact is, when you offer to do more for those around you it is very likely you’ll end up getting more in return.
Figuring out where you want to go is just as important as understanding what you have to leverage to get there.
If you set goals for yourself (or your team) that are not supported by the resources you have available, you are just making it easier to hit the head against the wall.
The pain that we feel, the fear that stops us, the worry that keeps us up.
They rarely go away for good. They are hardwired into our brains and they tend to come back as the circumstances around us shift towards something we have already experienced in the past. Somebody who hurt us, a sudden scare for our wellbeing, an highly anticipated event.
We must be happy when we manage to put them in their place.
Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. We cannot lose any of them, and yet as we progress, their relevance diminishes in front of the full picture.
Being in touch with oneself helps stay sane in these insane days.
Knowing what’s going on inside, being able to name feelings, flagging thoughts as mere thoughts (vs reality), catching signals from one’s body, sharing concerns and fears with loved ones. All this is more important than being informed on the latest numbers and the progresses towards the development of a vaccine.
We have the power to act on us, and that’s pretty much all we have control on. Whether there’s a pandemic ongoing or not.
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