#next-stepping

[rosasay]

Graduation, commencement speeches, and all the hand-wringing that goes with, is reminding me of this posting in our Managing with Aloha archives. Snippet:

To anyone who thinks this question is a one-time deal, usually leading up to college graduation, you’re wrong. Life doesn’t happen that way. School and other conventions are man-made contrivances. Life is a rule-breaker. You work on something, you think you’ve arrived — maybe even aced it — and then you try to fall asleep one night and you can’t, because the question decided it was time to show up again.

[rosasay]

A good follow-up for our Managing with Aloha next-stepping and value-verbing discussions recently, for both practices are about higher energy action.

[rosasay]

Great post from Steven Pressfield, which can help you stop saying, Why am I like this?

It may not be you, but something else. Give it another name (for Pressfield it's Resistance) and let it be that something else, and chances are you can deal with it better, or shake it off, and ignore it altogether.

Don't be someone who beats yourself up, for you already have your hands full making sure nobody else does either.

Don’t dwell on that anxiety. Don’t overthink it.

Get up. Get moving. Do whatever you have to do to seize the reins of that chariot and to take command of those four unruly horses.

Fiery chargers are good. Horsepower is what we want. We just have to learn how to gain control of those magnificent, passionate beasts and to get them to take us where we want to go.

Pressfield is talking about that same next-stepping we happen to be focused on at Managing with Aloha now too.