Situation
You are making your way through your day or week. You have challenges. Maybe they are direct and immediate or indirect and subtle. It's in this moment you must search inside and find grounding in what you're made of. What distracts you? What burns away? How do you define your path? And who emerges?
Steps
Name it.
Take a moment and think through what's going on. If your challenge is direct, it's likely fairly obvious. If indirect, articulate your sense of the situation.
Understand the current state.
How are you handling things now? What's working? What's not? What's getting in your way? What might be distracting you?
Go to your core.
Find the strength. It's there, you just need to listen more closely. Let it come forward.
Create a new future state.
Leverage your strength and chart a new, revised course of action. Create a future state informed by what you sense in your core. Even if a little off it's ok. Keep at it. Adjust as needed. And let go where you can but go boldly forward.
Get back to it.
Do the work that needs to be done. Change doesn't happen overnight. Be diligent and work.
Why
Challenges are amazing opportunities for you to discover who you are… or who you want to be. Every action (or reaction) is a choice. Use those moments to define (or redefine) yourself. One action at a time. Draw upon the strength from within, let go of the unnecessary and welcome who emerges.
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