3 Secrets to Sustainable Change

Learning and personal growth is a favorite hobby of many personally and professionally. We are interested in the process of finding out what part of ourselves is going to shine next. We look at: what can I do different, better, harder, faster, or more?

The secret is that there is a completely different (and easier) way to support your own growth, change, and transformation. It involves knowing how to grow in a way that is much more powerful. This way leads to sustainable on-going change.

Typically, we follow a pattern of asking ourselves questions like: How can I become better? How do I become a better leader of not just my team but my life?

Then we try hard to grow in multiple ways and we push and push only to find ourselves burnt out and unfulfilled and in the same place that we started. We try to make our lives better by “efforting.”

First, we identify what we think is the “problem,” then we rush in and look for “what is the solution?” Give me the steps (x, y & z) so I don’t have to feel or experience or know about this problem anymore. We try to make the problem go away.

We begin to blame, judge, and/or criticize ourselves and others or the systems around us. Then, during this process, we get so busy, and we become too overwhelmed with all the “efforting” in our plan to be able to…