Do this to access greater certainty
Shareable: What got you here won’t get you there? ~ Marshall Goldsmith
What comes to mind when you read that statement?
For me, it prompts the opportunity to change. With the unfolding of fall into the year’s end, we may feel a stronger pull towards change. And in that unfolding, we may want to also include the examination of our internal process for change.
We may forget that with any change, especially with any desire to move forward in our business and expand, there is a change process.
Does your change process normally include intentional enjoyment?
In my coaching and consulting practice, the Courageous Leadership Platform (CLP), the change process includes expanding our capacity to think and feel beyond what we know, beyond what we’ve already experienced; and to truly take in what we’d like that change or expansion to feel like. This engages the ‘executive brain’ which requires an elevation of oxytocin, the bonding hormone which requires regulation of cortisol, the stress hormone.
As leaders, when we first take in what it really feels like; when we engage one connect with the body’s intelligence and our mental intelligence, (heart/mid) our outcomes become more real to us. This powerful combination enhances our awareness and provides a richer experience providing us a new choice-point of greater ease and yes, enjoyment.
It’s when we consistently align with this feel good place that we create greater certainty within ourselves, our teams and organizations. It’s from this feel good place that we achieve a level of success that is often beyond what we imagined possible.
And yet, how often are we in that feel good place throughout any given day?
Under the CLP framework, we refer to this process as Leadership Alignment.
Alignment as in a position of agreement or alliance. And, a necessary step in this process of alignment is examining our BS, our Belief Structures.
Deliberately defining belief structures is a strategic “power play” for creating an experience where expansion is both deeply satisfying and rewarding.
How do we know if our existing belief structures are in alignment with our expansion and growth? We feel good most of the time. We are easily moving forward in the change process. We enjoy our work and our work environment.
During times of great stress, we unknowingly attempt to expand our thinking using our limited, outdated belief structures, and in turn, we create the very obstacles that we encounter along the way. This causes needless uncertainty, discomfort, and even suffering. This does not feel good.
The obstacles are not in and of themselves a problem, it is our perspective of them.
One way to change these outdated beliefs is to change our perception of them.
Changing our perception requires changing our brain.
Changing our brain changes how we think and thus how we feel.
Achieving any kind of change and expansion then becomes exciting, empowering and even enjoyable.
Who doesn’t want that?
