How often have you tolerated something hoping things will get better? How often have you hidden your emotions because you wanted to be seen as professional? How often have you tolerated a situation rather than make a change? Emotion can be extremely constructive and it can help you to point out your next opportunity.
"If you had understood in the moment that this was potential raising its hand, then you could have moved more graciously and powerfully into your next steps with it" (Visionary Leadership)
What if your emotion was simply a marker or indicator of what is next for you? What if your most current problem is really a source of your next biggest potential and greater purpose? Often emotion, even disillusionment is really beyond something personal. If we look at the bigger pictures and ask ourselves what was the reason for the break up? What was the reason for the change that occurred, that may have been devastating at the time? In asking these questions it creates the space for potential to show up. Often in time of change or great emotion we may not know what to do, leadership often shows up in the absence of knowing what to do. For example in my own business I have chosen to say no to certain activities just to have the space and to create the initiative in me to take the next steps towards what my leadership is calling for next. So the next time you experience a change, even an unwanted change, or negative emotion around that, you may simply want to get oriented toward what this emotion or change is telling you wants to happen next in your life.
3 Strategies to convert the energy of your emotions into trans formative movement: 1. Ask yourself from a big picture perspective what is the next big step coming? 2. The next time you are angry ask yourself what makes me care so much? 3. The next time you are frustrated ask yourself what makes me feel boxed in and smaller then I really am?
3 Morals of the story: 1. Emotion is constructive and calls you to your next leadership step. 2. Know that if you are experiencing negative or positive emotion, likely those you are in relationship with are experiencing the same thing. 3. Consider every feeling positive or negative as an indicator or a call to step up to considering new choices so that you can achieve your greatest potential.
I love this quote! Thank you.
Darlene
Posted by: Darlene Chrissley | Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 03:49 PM