Sept 19/17
Do you hold yourself to high standards and with these standards you question your direction that your vision provides you? How do you know when to proceed or pause? In short you do both at the same time with balance.
In my formal leadership role I was given the opportunity to grow more than my job description. It was three years ago I brought an idea on change process to an already successful company. It took almost a full year for that concept to evolve to a point of fact finding and looking at how to apply the initial process changes. It took an additional year after that for the needle for change to shift of culture within the organization.
During that three year incubation period, I continued to bring up other ideas as well and paused initially during the first year of this process idea change. The strategy of the two points of proceed and pause was utilized. If you want to grow and add value, use the this concept everyday.
Integrate your ability to bring up and share your vision with more than one topic. Whether it be work or personal life, keep aligning up your visions of next steps and applying them. When valuable concepts need to be paused, for a number of different reasons, allow them to pause. This pause time is critical for your visions to come to a reality. It is better to pause then to proceed through with your vision, as by pushing too hard may cause the end of your vision. The key importance of managing time needs to be applied here. This can be explained by when driving a car when you come to a corner you need to slow down to safely take the corner. Once the turn is completed then acceleration or the concept of to proceed can then be applied to allow you to arrive at your destination.
You will feel when it is a time for a pause and during that time information from others will support your motivation for a pause. Completion of your vision will provide you a valuable experience that your vision was accurate to what others now view as value. By practicing your ability to execute these two points of strategy you will be able to almost unconsciously lead others. Most importantly this success will help you build your ability to lead yourself.
In my example it took a year to start any change and at first I was unsettled and frustrated. However my focus of change was to be grateful and to gather strength that my idea of vision was one that did increase the organizational value.
My past I would have spent a lot of time with this sense of frustration. That sense of frustration provides absolutely zero value for anyone including me. My take away was to proceed on tasks when the opportunity was there and let pause's be what they are, just a pause and not an ending.
The pattern of balance and harmony is required for success. With allowing the pause to exist that adds to the need for that harmony in the required areas of your life. This experience has been another treasure of understanding self. With the understanding of myself, that has led to me having a true sense of long term and sustainable happiness.
This feeling I have been searching for such a long time but up until recently has eluded me. I have realized true joy and growth can not be from outside of me. No amount of outside stimulation can replace the hard work that is required within me. I also realize happiness will not remain without consistent work on my balance.
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