Being Lost To Be Found
My work has been very disjointed today, which has been frustrating. Whilst I’ve had plenty of time, and plenty of energy, I’ve struggled to focus on any single thing, and the ideas have been elusive or weak. Whilst I feel I’ve largely wasted the day, I also recognise that there is a rhythm and tempo to these things. Insight and understanding are not simply discovered: they are created, and the disconnect and sense of being lost can be part of this process, albeit an uncomfortable one.
I spoke to someone earlier about Culture, and the evolution of my own work over the last ten years: in that time I’ve built out four main stages of work on culture, each building upon the last, representing the ways i’ve pulled the topic into focus, and then let it drift away again.
Because my work is very broad, I find that I walk around the landscape, and the best ideas often come not when I am standing ‘next to the thing’ in question, but rather when I am somewhere else. It is the movement between things that leads to the connection.
I’ve written previously about how this makes my research and writing a somewhat embodied experience, bringing me both great joy and momentum but also great frustration and at times uncertainty.
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3 周I can very much relatze to that feeling of disjointed work, Julian, My own writing is in its infancy and cannot compare to yours, but I have plenty of those days since I started on my own. Like you, I have come to realise that the best ideas about something don't show up when you are sitting down to write about them, but rather during walks, conversations with others or whilst reading. Have decided to take notes then and there for later reference, which helps me.