When you dream of a life of freedom from the mundane, where you get to choose what you do, where you can be and do your best and take all the returns for your hard work, it’s understandable that you would consider going it alone.
Change your definition of change and you will change your need to manage it. Redefine what change means to you and you will find it easy to flow with the differences. You will be able to make the modifications and adjustments, and as you do, you will be able to climatise yourself to the positive aspects as they occur inside and outside of you.
At ESQL World, we use the concept of ‘Different, Until It’s Normal’ as a tool to help your mind accept positive changes. Here are five ways how this concept can help as an anchor during changing times.
What is so amazing about gratitude is that, according to recent mBraining research, gratitude or appreciation resonates at a similar wavelength to joy and love. So, by being able to practice methods of raising our frequency, we can start having some control over raising our average wavelength which in turn leads to some genuinely exciting benefits.
It's so easy to be critical of your teams and it takes a lot of courage, self-awareness and self-management to take responsibility for your own emotions, behaviours and actions. The ability to perform, or outperform, your competition is an indication of where energy and focus are getting directed inside the business.
Until now businesses have thought of value in different ways across the organisation. The Positive Impact Model connects individual behaviours to cultural values to brand values to shareholder value in a comprehensive and congruent manner.
Your judgement of others can be a major indicator of how you feel about yourself. Projection is a psychological term used to describe the process that happens when someone evaluates others. Usually used in a negative context, subjective criticism, dismissiveness and arrogance are all signifiers or low self-worth and low self-esteem.
Stay aligned to your values. Once you act towards becoming more productive for yourself, you will naturally reduce the internal conflict from acting in negative ways, with toxicity, or involving yourself in politics. It becomes much easier to stay within your values when you are maintaining a strong work ethic.
It starts affecting general wellbeing and employees start fearing underperformance, petty criticism and job loss. The issue is that everyone is spending more time on politics and less time focused on delivering their work.
The health of our economic and social development is dependent on us throwing out what has become a gramophone in a new world. You need to start valuing creativity over convention and take curiosity into your business strategies and leadership skills.
In order to evaluate a school fairly, in addition to grades, consider the values that you are most passionate about that you want your child to learn. Values are not taught in class, they are demonstrated in the behaviours of the adults, especially authority figures, and other pupils.