Tackling discomfort is often an uncomfortable topic (irony intended)! Let’s take it on beginning today 🙂
Are you familiar with the saying, “Leaders have to be comfortable making others uncomfortable”? This is a way to tackle discomfort. If any of you know, who coined this saying, let me know, I’d love to thank them 🙂
Shoes. Yes, I said shoes! Women know about how to be comfortable with uncomfortable!
Talk about tackling discomfort! High heeled shoes are a humble reminder of corporate life. As a result, choosing shoes for comfort It is one of my favorite things outside the corporate world. My feet are happy 🙂
On a serious note, tackling discomfort takes on new meaning in 2020. Did anyone have global pandemic on their 2020 bingo card?
Over the past six months, I’ve been talking with people from coast to coast. These people are from all walks of life, from all ages and share the desire to attempt to ensure they have carefully thought out and execute plans in / for life. Planning for impact of the magnitude we’ve experienced this year had not been on anyone’s radar. So, what does this teach us?
On top of the pandemic, fires and hurricanes dominate the news again this week. Thousands evacuated, many for the 2nd time in weeks. Discomfort is an understatement. Are bigger things happening or are we noticing more? What if it was both?
Finding ways to use experiences we have to make things better moving forward is where we’ll go today. Yes, big stuff is happening. Yet It is our response that deserves our focus now and into the future.
As leaders in our families, our companies and our communities, how may we begin to drive discussions and actions that make us and others uncomfortable? How do we build our resilience to the point where we can be comfortable and begin to lead? A few thoughts to consider:
- As much as we may think it’s easy to ignore something, this is false. What we learn is that time after time, we allow whatever “it” is to lodge itself into the back of our minds to cause perpetual “noise” and worry. What If we invested a portion of that time toward taking a step toward doing something about “it”?
- Once in a century is no longer once in a century when it comes to natural disasters. What was unexpected is becoming expected. Knowing this can set us on a course of productive action
- In 1786, a Scottish proverb “The best-laid plans of mice and men” is a reminder to all that things may not go as we’ve hoped, planned for or wanted. In 2020 to say things have gone “awry” holds true
- By reframing from things happen “to” me to things happen “for me”, it is easier to apply the lessons learned
- Is anything in life ever static? Our systems, processes and lifestyle are always changing and evolving. Are we changing and evolving too?
Mindset is important during times of prolonged stressful times. We’re in for the long-haul with flu season coming up along side of Covid. Find creative ways to sustain yourself as we enter fall and prepare for winter.
I was a featured guest for Sabrina Clark’s Design Your Family Legacy free online series that begins 12 October, 2020. For a free ticket to join and learn from passionate professionals about their areas of expertise, click here: https://tailor-madelegaciessummit.com/LynnLambrechtÂ
If you’re beginning to plan for Q1 2021 and want to talk about taking care of business at home and work, contact me via Email or check out the website @ The Living Planner for additional information. Let me know if there are other ways I may be of assistance.
Stay well –Lynn
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