The story you tell yourself (and others) initiates your emotional response, embeds your attitude state, and sets in motion ONLY linked experiences (that confirm it or move it on a step).
Your story is how you describe your current circumstances, you tell it in general dialogue to friends and family, powerfully creating pictures, evidence and emotions that go with it. The more often you tell your story, more elaborately and more vividly the more power you add to its impact on the listener.
The #1 listener to your story is… YOU!
This year we have experienced a major disruption to the way we work. We have fallen into new normal patterns of working behaviour and gradually loss volumes of our old spark. Days have become movement-predictable, as we sit in our home workspace and wait or hope for something new to occur.
I noticed that my creativity was flattening after sitting for hours in my home office, staring at the screen, waiting, hoping for inspiration to show up!
When your pattern becomes edge-less, the creative-spark moments dissolve.
It is at the edges of activity that creativity is sparked and new thinking is triggered – have your edges got lost?
The skill of Webinaring has become crucial in these times, it is not a fill-in method while we wait to get back into the office. It IS the method. How effective a Webinarist are you? Here’s a Top 7 List of Webinar Impact Enhancers.
In March 2020 a huge chunk of my business and revenue simply ceased to be!
My business had dramatically changed shape, almost overnight. My diary for the months ahead emptied, prospects vaporised, in-progress ideas and conversations ended. If I knew where it was, should I hit a panic button?
Maybe, in some ways, yours changed too?
As lockdown guidance lessens in many countries, we are tentatively venturing back to the old normal or forwards toward a new normal. It’s as if we’re learning to swim again, having tread water for many weeks. So, if the waiting is almost over… have you considered what have you been waiting for?
The recent events around the world have made me consider the importance of and challenges of change. Fresh starts, fresh ideas and new beginnings flourish only under the right conditions. Defining and creating those conditions can be a mighty struggle, that may remain elusive despite the purity of intent. Change is necessary, a natural part of our learning so… if not now, when?
Are you becoming used to new ways of connecting with colleagues, friends and family? Are you noticing how the interactions are becoming different, abridged versions of what they were pre-Covid-19?
Without being together in an office we are missing a whole suite of cues and interactions, asides, light-hearted quips, noticing and acknowledging others with a nod, smile, smirk.
The absence of this flow of feedback can be insidious and like removing a key food group in a change in diet, it only gradually reveals the body’s response to the deficiency.
Now is the time to say what, at first, seems unnecessary.
What do you want? Really want? It is likely that you now feel differently about what you do and how you do it. I have been experiencing a tumultuous range of emotions and thoughts regarding what lies ahead as I (peacefully) accept the changes that are already here. Some fill me with concern, others with happiness and hope. Do you find yourself eagerly, desperately or worryingly contemplating this transition towards a “new normal”?
