Looking For Lighting

Take one minute and reflect back to time when a number of things came together unexpectedly to significantly change how you were approaching or thinking about a given topic or situation. These moments can often be personal and can occur anyplace at any time. All it takes is the right mix of new ideas, coinciding events, and timing to trigger a shift that changes everything.

When you reach a breakthrough event, things shift significantly. How you see things will change and it can potentially be uncomfortable but exhilarating at the same time. Vibrant growth professionally or personally will share this hallmark. A key thing to remember is that these breaking change events in your experiences are unique to you and an important part of creating your own story, impacting others but more importantly you.

It’s next to impossible to conjure and engineer these events on purpose or put them on a schedule, but there are things that can be done to create a more optimized environment with favorable conditions. Similar to how we can’t control the weather, yet with some insight on how weather systems organize themselves, we may be able to see an opportunity to increase the likelihood for lighting to strike, but in a positive way.  

·      Look for opportunities to foster spaces for growth breakthroughs.

·      Create calm opportunities to think, reflect, learn, and reduce unhelpful noise.

·      Take in a variety of perspectives related to “active zones” for exploration and opportunity.

·      Connect to communities that are characterized by expansion over contraction thinking.

Look for lightning and you may find things get really interesting in a fantastic way.