How to sustain your momentum and accommodate shifting needs
Andrew Scharf
?? Award-Winning MBA Admissions Consultant (EMBA, MiM, Masters) ?? Executive & Career Coach ?? Content Marketing Strategist ?? Helping aspiring professionals and top performers reach their full potential.
"If you do not obtain your Self, then what is the point of being."?- Ramana Maharshi.
Sustaining your momentum means accommodating your shifting needs. Resilience gives you tools to avoid complacency and create even more value for your Self. The Greek storyteller Aesop emphasised humbleness and diligence to teach us great truths. But are his tales still relevant in today’s business culture with its emphasis on AI and high tech? The answer is yes because navigating our challenges are more complex than dealing with unexpected turns and unpredictable weather.
It doesn't matter how your career began or whether you are riding high. You may have done all the right things early. However, as we change so does the job market. Are we ready to make our next moves?
Wisdom indicates that you’re about to face your toughest issue yet: complacency. Said another way, although you are successful staying successful is even harder. Research confirms this challenge. Being resilient is crucial as well as guarding a positive mindset. Therefore, we reflect on the lessons we have learned. Coaching can play a vital role here in providing you with a compendium of core principles to help you chart your growth. Call this a strategic map to autonomous mobility.
It begins when life experiences shape a person's philosophy on coping, overcoming fears, achieving emotional and mental resilience, and gaining physical strength. It is not a magic bullet, but it does point out that high performers cultivate certain habits, which help them recalibrate their calculus for success. Life can be a hard taskmaster. Everyone needs resilience to succeed, but you also need an actionable plan to live with extraordinary courage, balance, and joy.?
When I think of the future, I see people having multiple careers. People will have to unlearn, relearn, and constantly use new skill sets for as long as they are in the workforce. All the cycles that we see, whether economic, climatic, investment, or tech cycles, are getting shorter. As a result, keeping up is no longer an option. If you don't, you will become redundant.
Learning to embrace your fears
By embracing your autonomy, you are by definition embracing your fears. A whole new world reveals itself to you by doing so, and you learn that your fears only exist in your mind. They are not real. Facing your challenges one step at a time also permits you to invalidate some of your internal insecurities while making you feel like you have more value to give. In addition, it answers seminal questions such as "Am I appreciated? Do I belong?" and perhaps more importantly, "Who am I?"
For inspiration, let's turn to Arunachala Mountain's great personal development coach, Ramana Maharshi. His career counsel brings health, wealth, happiness, awareness, and authenticity. His core principles are based on understanding your true motivation. Furthermore, he would say that the moment we start to define our position in life, no matter what it might be, we confine ourselves to a series of structural limitations, preconceived conceptions, and outward projections. Until we can answer "Who am I" in a state of calm dispassion, we will never cultivate the self-disciple to act with courage and elevate our lives. All we need to do is take the first step, act with courage, and stay mindful.
Understanding autonomous mobility starts by comprehending the nuances of human life.
Drama is inescapable. However, you can equip yourself to handle your challenges better. The key to self-mastery is to let go of your misunderstanding of whom you think you are compared to you.?The moment has come to take stock and "wake up and roar." Although this is an ancient path, it is forever fresh and timeless. You don't need to become a renunciate. You can find the answer to the questions that nag right in your own home. The Buddha gently suggested that everyone has the power to reshape their persona. It just takes fortitude and determination. Let's get started.
Exercise 1:?Cultivate the garden of your mind.?You wouldn't allow weeds to grow in your garden. So why do you allow negative thoughts to saturate your mind? You may not be able to change the world with one bold stroke, but you do have the power to check negative thoughts as they enter your consciousness. Start by recalibrating your emotional intelligence. Emotions are like fleeting clouds in the sky. They will disappear if you do not attach significance to them.
Exercise 2:?Drop fear from your playlist.?Fear is corrosive and destructive. Replace these thoughts with something positive. Anyone can do this. Otherwise, you will make yourself ill. People create barriers out of fear. If we are honest, we pursue this path because we lack a proper understanding of life situations. If we only understood the greatness within the human heart, we would no longer feel ordinary, false, or weak. Embody compassion within and see your worldview change. Forgive yourself, and the rest is easy.
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Scientists have proven that the entire universe consists of nothing but conscious energy.?Because this is so, we are all part of the same universal family, with the same aspirations despite our superficial cultural and social differences. In reality, we are not different from one another. If we strike fear and negativity from our hearts, the world would be dramatically different.
Exercise 3: Becoming.?Did you know that creation takes place in two stages? First, it is created in the mind. Then it manifests as reality. Did you know that within the human heart dwells a shimmering effulgence whose brilliance surpasses the sun? Inner consciousness animates the world, but we are condemned to live someone else's life unless we realize this. Each one of us has the power to become anything we want by exercising our will. The Maitri Upanishad states that "One's thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what they become - That is the eternal mystery."
Exercise 4: The impact of resolutions.?Every year we make resolutions with the hope of a more fruitful future. The problem is that we don't live in the future. We only live now in the present moment. Most people oscillate between dragging up what has happened to them in the past or projecting a lot that never arrives. Wipe your slate clean and take charge. Plato would counsel us to "Leave the shadows and step out into the light."
Making your professional aspirations a reality sounds risky.?However, the risk is like a muscle. The more risk you take, the better equipped you will be to make things happen. As your confidence increases, you will tap the commitment to fulfill your objectives. Many people have taken this path. Know you are not alone. When you embark on this journey, helplessness will flee, and you will be in charge of your destiny. Your destiny is not written. Search your feelings. You have the power to write your own story.
Bringing it back home.?Instituting a change in your career or personal life is best done one step at a time. In conclusion, let me share with you the words of one of the wisest people I value, who lives on the outskirts of Bangalore. Her words hold profound clarity:
"I feel clean
I feel free
I feel ready to live each day with zest.
I am delighted by the adventure of each moment."
See what you can do when you conduct your experiments with truth.
About the author
Andrew Scharf is an Award-Winning MBA Admissions Consultant ?? Executive & Career Coach recognised for helping top performers, and aspiring professionals be all they can be. His?mission is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world at?Whitefield Consulting . Have a professional project you would like to discuss, send him a DM.