In my clinical work as a psychotherapist and in my consulting work, I find many people are really living more “at effect” – reacting to what others do, feeling imposed upon, focusing on that things and forces that concern them but over which they have no control, feeling victimized or powerless or at the very least resentful or upset and blaming others. It turns out that few seem to realize that they have the tremendous power of being the CHOOSER, of being At Choice in their lives.
Mental Flexibility Part 5: Resiliency of Being
This is the last in the series on the four primary tools and methods for creating greater mental and overall flexibility to deal with discontinuities, challenges, opportunities and change. Resiliency is the capacity to spring back from set backs, stresses and discontinuities.
Mental Flexibility – Part 4 “Confidence”
This sense of inner calm, of confidence, makes you more mentally flexible since you are not “on your guard” or having to “prove yourself” – you can be more relaxed and at ease in dealing with people and responding to the challenges before you.
Mental Flexibility Part 2: Core Orientation
What is your center? What is your Purpose in being on this earth? To what are you in service? Can you easily articulate in one short sentence why you are here, your sense of personal meaning on this earth?
Mental Flexibility – Leadership Resiliency
The key here is to develop greater mental and emotional flexibility. Without that ability to flex without breaking, to bend with the currents of change without getting up rooted, an individual, a leader, a team or an organization can collapse, fall apart or lose their way.
Bring the Whole Person to Work
Do what you do with all of yourself. In fact, in the challenges before us, we can not afford anything less. When it comes to addressing complex challenges, dealing with rapid change, being more innovative and getting more with less, we need the richness, intelligence and full engagement of everyone around us.
Poetry & Innovation
The challenge for all leaders and teams is how to both deal with rapid discontinuities AND how to become more innovative. The enemy to both is “old ways of thinking” and old forms of communicating, connecting and relating that limit human potential, imagination and capacity.
Protection, Permission and Power
Marti had both an MD in Psychiatry and also an MBA, working in a Clinical Practice as well as Consulting with CEOs and Senior teams. He taught me that the key to raising healthy children, helping individuals in therapy and also developing leadership effectiveness had to do with three core principles.
The Power of Attention
Knowing what to focus on, where to put your attention and how to observe are essential behaviors to develop if you wish to become more effective not only at work but in life overall.
Leaders Set the Example
Leaders engage active follower-ship by vitalizing attention through bringing life to the collective imagination.