Have you ever been so deeply entangled with a problem that you feel like it's become you, or you've become it?
I know that I have. Some problems trigger our nerves into a chaotic sense of attachment to trouble. We don't remember choosing it. We wouldn't have asked for it. We didn't reach out to grab it - but there it is, clinging to us so tightly you can't tell us apart.
Yuck, eh? We don't want that. We want creative answers, not burdened weights and clinging symptoms.
We can do better.
We can focus on a problem and work to solve it creatively without making it part of who we are. The problem is NOT who we are. The problem is the problem. Restating the problem as a positive goal to achieve helps, as does keeping our center when the rest of the world spins madly toward trouble.
We can do better in steps. We can do better by degrees. We can dramatically do better all at once.
Centered leaders focus on a problem without becoming the problem.
Stepping aside, holding loosely, allowing ourselves to breathe, we can always do better.
Don't you feel better already?
-- Doug Smith
doug smith training: developing creativity
Front Range Leadership: Training Supervisors for Success
I know that I have. Some problems trigger our nerves into a chaotic sense of attachment to trouble. We don't remember choosing it. We wouldn't have asked for it. We didn't reach out to grab it - but there it is, clinging to us so tightly you can't tell us apart.
Yuck, eh? We don't want that. We want creative answers, not burdened weights and clinging symptoms.
We can do better.
We can focus on a problem and work to solve it creatively without making it part of who we are. The problem is NOT who we are. The problem is the problem. Restating the problem as a positive goal to achieve helps, as does keeping our center when the rest of the world spins madly toward trouble.
We can do better in steps. We can do better by degrees. We can dramatically do better all at once.
Centered leaders focus on a problem without becoming the problem.
Stepping aside, holding loosely, allowing ourselves to breathe, we can always do better.
Don't you feel better already?
-- Doug Smith
doug smith training: developing creativity
Front Range Leadership: Training Supervisors for Success
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