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Leadership Human-Style
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Leadership Human-Style
Seasons of Work with Lisa Mitchell
"When we rail against the discomfort of being unclear or unhappy, we risk staying in that state longer.”
-Lisa Mitchell
Feeling stuck or blah lately? Or just not quite “ON”? This quick solo episode is for you.
In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you’ll discover:
- An example of how seasonality shows up in our lives and our thinking about work
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Hello and welcome back to Talent Management Truths. I'm your host, Lisa Mitchell. Have you been feeling stuck or blah lately or maybe not quite on? Well, this very quick solo episode is just for you. I'm trying something a little different. Once again, in this episode of Talent Management Truth, you'll discover an example of how seasonality shows up in our lives and our thinking about work.
I hope you enjoy.
Winter in January of this year, I was blah. No, mocho work was fine, but it wasn't more than fine, which is usually the case for me. I'm usually raring to go, you know, I felt like I was unclear, unmoored, unfocused, like I needed to pivot or evolve what I was doing, but I had no idea in what direction it was as though my verve or my zest had dried up.
I felt like a barren field. Spring the blah. Continued life was good. No reason to complain. Lots of business. Happy clients, fun adventures, dinners with my family and friends, but still meh. I seem to have lost my natural fire and drive. And then in late May, something started to shift. A client outta the blue, shared a vision she'd had of me doing some big things.
Scary and amazing, big things, got me thinking. And then I spent a couple of days away with a good friend and a colleague on retreat in a beautiful setting. We talked about what we wanted to let go of and what we wanted to do. More of the ground inside me. I could feel it. It was starting to shift slowly.
And not very obviously, it's more like glimmers and sparkles. Little wee hints about the feelings I wanted to experience more of in my work, and I no longer felt like a barren field, but rather one that had land fallow for a while, and that now was coming to life with many little seedlings of possibility that were just just beneath the surface.
Summer at the time. I'm recording this, it's mid-August. It's hot, it's hazy. My flowers look gorgeous, and the tomatoes are ripening, and yet you can smell a hint of autumn in the air, and that slanted golden sunlight is starting to creep in around the edges of my visual frame when I'm out on my walks.
I've just returned from a very busy two week vacation where I didn't think about work at all. I didn't do any of the journaling and goal setting that I planned to do. And you know that's okay because now that I'm back, I feel new energy bubbling to the surface. I'm starting to feel new ideas and a new sense of decisiveness emerge like the perennials in my garden.
Now I'm still not completely clear on what I want and where I'm going to pivot, but I know I will soon. And I've decided there's no rush. I'm taking the pressure off. Even though I wanted to do that back in the spring, I wasn't able to it. It just wasn't my season. For that fall. On the day this episode drops, it will be the Wednesday after Labor Day in early September, and the house will be quieter than usual because we will have moved our only son into residence at his university five days earlier.
I imagine. I'll be tired. Proud, happy, teary, all the emotions really. And I also know that now that Patrick's settled and everyone's back from holidays, new ideas and new opportunities will have started percolating. I know I'll be ready to start letting my dreams take shape and grow taller, and I will start making new plans again.
Life and work are seasonal and sometimes we're clear and happy and other times we're completely befuddled or discombobulated. And what I know is that when we rail against the discomfort of being unclear or unhappy, we risk staying in that state longer. What I've learned and what I wanna share with you today, in case you need it right now, is that we must trust the process.
Trust that things inside you as well as outside of you, will shift. When I remember this, I am calmer. I can navigate these, these icky uncomfortable transitions better between seasons. Now, I'm not saying be a passive player in your own life. Reflect, experiment, practice, do the things to help you move through stuckness and fog.
Not every January is the January that I had this year, but trust that you will move through that stuckness and fog. You may have been stressing about a pile of bills, for example, files that need organizing, and you may have been avoiding it for some time, but one day, you know from past experience, you'll look at that pile and you'll decide it needs to be dealt with and you'll deal with it because it's the season for you to do so.
