LEADERSHIP STRATEGY: ASK YOURSELF FIVE POWERFUL QUESTIONS
The difference between ’changing’ and ’transforming’ is that change implies replacing or in some way negating the current reality. Transformation on the other hand, implies reaching deep within what exists to find the seeds of a new reality.
By LSI contributor Dr. John Scherer
New Water from the Old Well
Transformationt more closely resembles the true meaning of education: from its Latin root e-ducare, to draw out…as in drawing water from a well. Think of the transformation described herein as drawing new water out of your old well by going deeper than you have ever dipped before. The way to get a bucket deeper into your well is by addressing powerful questions head on, rather than jumping at the first attractive looking answers that come along. When you wrestle with the following five life-changing questions, things will shift around and inside of you. You just might discover who you really are. The approach is not easy, but it is very simple.
Come home to yourself.
Come home to your Self. Not the little self, the one that worries all the time, and tries hard to impress people—the one who works overtime to maintain the illusion of safety and control. I’m talking about coming home to the huge Self, the one that truly lives, loves, laughs, and learns—the self who knows why he/she is here, and can’t wait for the next sunrise, the self who yearns to encounter the next challenging person or situation because of what will be learned. Your true self, your higher or deeper self, the one that understands where your interpretation of life comes from, that knows how to shift your structure, assumptions, and states of mind, the one that does not give in to default trances held in this world.
Is it time for you to discover or re-discover the path that turns work and life itself into deep, (even spiritual) development? When you were born, you were a master of that way of learning—it was all you knew how to do. You were a human becoming, designed to grow, develop, and rediscover yourself and the world around you—every moment of every day. Born to be learners, unfortunately too many adults mature into transfixed knowers. The work-in-progress that most of us believe ourselves to be, all too often stops progressing. When it does, every day will feel like the same old same old.
Five questions: your path to greater purpose, power, and peace.
1. What confronts me?
2. What am I bringing?
3. What runs me?
4. What calls me?
5. What will unleash me?
This post is sponsored by The Scherer Center