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Recruitthebest Daily Digest- If You Don’t Like Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Do not pretend to be who you are not. If you don’t like what is happening in your life, take a look at your reality.

Because you get what you pay attention to. ‘Living systems change to preserve themselves.’

‘The first act of life is to create a boundary, a membrane that is the cell’s identity. It defines an inside and an outside, what it it, what it is not.’

‘Life cannot be sustained when the boundary is too rigid. Nor can it generate new capacities and adapt to its environment if the boundary is too open.’

‘Without identity there is no life, no creation, no responsibilities, no continuation, no possibility for evolutionary change. Yet every change is motivated by an attempt to change, to preserve a self.’

‘Embody your faith. Don’t talk about it, walk it. People will notice and respond.’

‘Conversation is the technology. Curiosity, vulnerability, mutual respect give it power.’

‘Curiosity leads to adaptive responses.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Facing Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Your reality is your own reality. You are the only one who can change it.

If you like your reality, live it. If you do not like your reality, do something about it.

Don’t just talk about it. Do something about it.

‘Machines wear down and die. Living systems, if they learn and adapt, do not.’

‘A healthy living system is an intelligent learner. It can adapt and survive even though its environment is moving toward increasing disorder. But it must be actively engaged and aware, never losing focus on its environment. Failing to pay attention and adapt is a prescription for death.’

‘Sane leadership is the commitment to create the conditions for the finest human capacities- generosity, creativity, kindness- to blossom, protected from the external environment. It is the deep knowing that, even in the most dire circumstances, more becomes possible engage together with compassion and discernment, self-determining their best way forward.’

‘Once a system has tipped, it cannot reverse back to its former state. We need to learn to live with it, to adapt. And this is not always possible.’

‘A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being willing to serve an inhumane, indecent time.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatney (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity