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Thus far we are a month into the 2022 year and already, a lot has changed. Signing up with a second “mastermind” group, where discussions of challenges and growth are discussed. The two groups have a significantly different focus thus far. Although I feel I am sprinting with growth, progress, and attempt in self reflection. I am miles behind these other individuals, in some aspects of life. Coming from a competitive athletic background, this sparks challenge for change.
Although I am surrounding by individuals with 20+ years experience in coaching, investing, business, and years of learned experiences in life; I have found I too can be a great source for if not advice, at least a different voice of reasoning. We all grow up with different experiences in life, which hopefully we learn from. In turn we choose to make different and more ideal decisions. We live, we learn, we adapt, we change….we grow. This is, as long as we are open to learn from the change that inevitably is happening around us.
The resistance to change, is where we no longer encounter “new good problems”. We fall back to challenges and problems that in other ways find us. This is because with every moment of our life, the world continues to spin. Society continues to push for change, our bodies continue to age, our minds like our muscles become stronger with deliberate practice in life, or become weakened by the lack of practicing life.
This reminds me of an audio book I am currently reading and a book I have begun to read: “Peak” and “The Body Keeps The Score”. Both discuss the science similar to “Livewired” (Book I’ve previously posted about). There are parts of the brain that develop or regress contingent on our daily habits, routines, and deliberate efforts to improve. Just like muscles can grow by working out, our brain can strengthen through studying, learning, practicing “brain games”, or even practicing our communication skills with difficult interactions.
Regardless of what challenges you face, it is working your way through them that makes you more adaptable to overcome future challenges. You become physically stronger, mentally stronger, cognitively more able to adapt and quickly respond to even the most difficult encounters. Some examples: Medical staff in an emergency room, military personal in moments of battle. Both having life or death consequences, through repetitions, studying, and training this allows us to overcome those challenges more effective.
Question: What are some challenges that you have encountered in the past, that you can reflect on. Where not the answers seem to be so much easier now?
Action: Next time you come across a challenge this week, opposed to avoiding it, find ways to overcome. Your future self will thank you with increased adaptability.
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