If you don’t like your reality, don’t talk about it, do something about it. Because you created it. And you are the only one who can change it.
Be curious. Because ‘curiosity leads to adaptive responses. Certainty leads to death sentences- at least this is true for every other life form on this planet.’
Don’t do it alone. ‘When fearful people bond together, all the ingredients for strong community are present: a shared world view, a desire to support one another, a clear lens for interpreting information, and a collective self-image that they’re engaged in important work.’
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’
‘Nothing living lives alone and when we are in genuine relationships, an abundance of creativity and caring gives us the very capacities we need to solve our toughest problems together.’
‘We need to be in the world but not of it. We need to create places at work and in our communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics of this culture and reawaken their human spirits.’
‘We need leaders who recognize the harm being done to people and planet through the dominant practices that control, ignore, abuse, and oppress the human spirit. We need leaders who put service over self, stand steadfast in crises and failures, and who display unshakable faith that people can be generous, creative, and kind.’
‘Is your work still meaningful?’
Source:
Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity
