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When time allows, I share gems from within and outside my network.

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Non-Linear

Unknown. Infinite loops. Exploratory. Learning Curves. Entanglement.

What do you see to imagine?

Step Back to Grow

While it is true there are many people who have an interest in us, you and I are still the majority share stakeholders in ourselves. The learning curve we’re on has to work for us, first and foremost. Learning to manage the expectations of others, and stand up in face of them, is a hallmark of maturing as an autonomous human being.

Stepping back whenever we feel it is needed is necessary to our growth. Our biases are always moving forward and up. However, there is a lot going on in the arenas adjacent to where we are now, inviting lateral or sideways moves. And, the greatest opportunity for growth often opens up by moving back or down.

The whole idea behind disruption is that we are on horizontal and vertical—x and y axes—of growth. We anticipate that a step forward in time will be accompanied by a complementary step up. Over one, up one. But sometimes, a step back can position us differently so that in the future, each step over results in two steps up, or three, or five.

The step back is a springboard for greater momentum, and for compounding, rather than linear, growth.” — @johnsonwhitney


Togetherness

How do we reclaim our natural curiosity and creativity, our love of continuous learning, and develop our personal growth and resilience? Through small, caring learning communities.

@rotanarotana: Those nice folk over at @gapingvoid often have the answers! Thank you @hughcards”@simbeckhampson

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Riding the Waves

Making Sense of our Endings

“Passing time in the neutral zone means working to be present in the now. Acknowledging the past, but not racing to put plans in place for the future. Allowing space for new ideas to emerge. Uncertainty and ‘not knowing’ are places of potential and possibility. It’s where the magic happens.

Learning to lean into this is a better marker of longer-term resilience, as psychologists will attest. 

And so, as we head towards autumn, with no clarity in sight, let’s make sense of our endings. Let’s acknowledge our mental load – you’ll feel liberated, I promise. And when we head into the neutral zone, we can really get started on building a better future.” —  @workingfuture1

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