I am proposing a radical and counter-intuitive approach to
forcing an outcome – doing nothing! Please understand that I am not suggesting completely
withdrawing from the world, engaging in a marathon viewing of old sit-coms or
eating mass quantities of ice-cream, junk food or chocolate. What I am advocating
for is a strategy of temporarily stepping away from our natural tendency to
force a situation and allowing the situation to organically unfold. This approach
can feel quite foreign and challenging initially, especially when every cell of
your body is screaming for you to take action. Through engaging in the
discipline of stepping back and allowing a situation to unfold, much of the
situational drama that impedes forward momentum will play out and elegantly resolve
itself. Through this allowing strategy, you ultimately wind up avoiding much of
the physical, mental and emotional exhaustion that results from forcing a
situation that truly needs to unfold and organically resolve itself. An added
bonus is that the resolution is often much better than anything that you would
have imagined.
Where in your professional or personal life could you potentially
benefit from the unexpected gifts of allowing a situation to organically
unfold?
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