I was thinking about all the gloom and doom of the last 3 or 4 months . One amazing thing piled on another. How quickly we have forgotten the appalling guilt of the Bankers; surely because we have discovered the corruption of the politicians – one sickening, gut-wrenching list of betrayals after another.
There is an interesting blog on the Guardian – www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree – about why we are so angry with Gordon Brown: basically, we seeking revenge on a Government that ‘can no longer insulate us from reality’. In effect, the chickens are coming home to roost, and we can no longer sustain the life style we have become accustomed to. Furious, we seek a victim to blame.
There may be some truth in this argument, but whatever is happening on the macro-economic and macro-political stage it is vital not to get caught up in blame and hand-wringing, or what I like to think of as victimhood. The question really is: what is the best thing to do in tough times? What, in fact, would be most motivating?
Of course, if you know our Motivational Maps product you will know that we are all individuals and have our own profiles, but that caveat aside I think there is one central thing we should focus to break the fog-lock that this crisis is producing.
My wife and I have spent the last three months or so re-strategising our business, and therefore our goals and objectives. And this is wonderfully therapeutic. To look again, only more carefully, at the assumptions that one has been living and trading on, and to fundamentally review the fun-index – namely, am I really having fun doing all this stuff or have I lost the real plot of my life?
The real plot? Yes, the plot that says I don’t die with my music still inside me simply because I am more concerned with staying alive rather than living.
On that basis, although change is hard, breaking customs and habits is difficult, the period in question has been particularly exhilarating. What, then, do you need to do to rejuvenate yourself? How will you re-calibrate your career and life? What steps do you have to plan and start implementing now?
For myself and my business a number of issues are really clear: we need to focus on attracting new Business Practitioners to our organisation, and really flagging up the benefits (including financial ones) of licensing with us. And I personally need to get off my b*t and write that definitive book on motivation that I have long contemplated. Just in expressing it, I feel galvanised – so you too: get re-strategised, and now!
James Sale
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