How to Drive Clarity
Don Dalrymple — February 18, 2019 — February 18, 2019
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Are you doing what you are supposed to be doing? Is the work you have been doing for many years as relevant today, or are you having to unlearn and reinvent?
I think that effort and working hard are relatively natural for many driven and successful people that I know. The hard part is the paradox of success. Once you have achieved success, there are new, ambiguous horizons to pursue. It is unending, and in a sense, overwhelming.
What do you do to get clarity?
Well, one thing for sure is to heed Marie Forleo’s insight, “Clarity comes from engagement not thought.”
You can’t get clear by sitting and thinking. You have to engage the world around you. You have to be fully present in the moment, and listen to your intuition and heart about what you desire and align with.
The world provides feedback continually, and when you tune into how you respond – what you like, dislike or are attracted to – you gain clues on where to put your energy towards next endeavors.
Perhaps you have hit a jackpot. Or you may have finished a giant project. The temptation is to rest and enjoy downtime. But, a void comes quickly where inaction, apathy or clouded thinking can lull you into passivity. This is happening while the world is moving swiftly by.
If you can’t find motivation, bide your time by working in new gigs and projects. Explore. Engage. Be with people and keep solving problems. If you don’t like what you are doing, pivot to something else. The key is to keep moving.
Then, pay attention to the feedback you are getting in the world through engagement. If you are continually growing by learning new skills and helping as many people as you can, the clarity comes. You start to see patterns about what you want next.
Then you can rally and put all that passion, energy and time into what you have discovered.
You have to seek clarity continuously as a life process if you want to keep growing, performing and getting results. There is no resting on your laurels. Movement is life.
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