Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Living Your Reality

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

This Is Discipline

If you do not discipline yourself, life will do it for you. If you do not know how to show up for yourself, no one will show up for you. That is discipline. That is life. Because life is about self-discipline. If you don’t discipline yourself, you won’t know when you are not doing enough for yourself.

That is what discipline does for us. It holds things together. It keeps us on track. It keeps us going. It helps get over obstacles. It forces us to do things that we wouldn’t have done.

Discipline is hard. But we need it. We need the spirit of dicipline in our lives. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be everywhere.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are running in circles, you are not running at all. When you are not doing the right things, you are not doing anything at all. When you are not showing up for yourself, you are not showing up for yourself at all.

And life is about self-discipline. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be stuck in a rut.

So if you want to discipline yourself, you have got to be there for yourself. You have got to have the courage to do what is scary. You have got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. You have got to have the courage to stand up for yourself, to do what you have not done before in your life.

To discipline yourself, you must always show up for yourself. You must always do what you need to do to get what you want. That is discipline.

Discipline is not about being the strongest in the room. It is not about being the smartest in the room. It is not about being the toughest in the room. Discipline is more than that.

So what is discipline? It is having the courage to show up for yourself. It is having the courage to do what you need to do.

If you want to be successful, you must have the courage to show up for yourself.

The question is, Will you show up for yourself?