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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~ M.Scott Peck
Recent challenging times present the perfect opportunity to reflect and ask the question, for what purpose am I experiencing this? Job changes, financial angst, and family stress – it is all so overwhelming. But if you believe in a higher power – or even the power within you – everything that happens seems to have some form of purpose.
How do we achieve this “purpose clarity”?
I realize that this can be frustrating and our emotions can really get the better of us in times of fear and stress, but if you can get beyond that and really ask that deeper question of “why” – very often ideas will emerge. In other words, what are the lessons here? How does going through this current situation serve me? It is natural to see change as a negative thing, but if you reflect on times in your life where change happened (job loss, divorce etc) many people would admit after some time and distance from the situation that they not only learned something about themselves – which led to personal growth – but often they admit that if they had not been forced to deal with these issues they would not have taken a course of action in their life that led them to a better life – a better course of action.
How many times have we heard that someone was fired and at the time it felt devastating – only to realize later that another door opened that led them to a better job, or they met people who have shaped their life in incredibly positive ways?
We are only human. As human beings we fear change.
How can we begin to reframe this concept? Nature allows us to observe and enjoy the beauty of change. In nature change just is. For example, take a flower. A flower grows from a bud into its full-blown beauty, only to die and then fall off the stem – and the seeds of the flower then become the catalyst for new growth and new life in the future. What if the flower never died and fell off of the stem? There would no fresh growth, no “newness” in the spectacular world of nature. All of life is a cycle of birth, growth, decline and then rebirth.
It is natural for us to desire everything in our life to be in a constant growth stage but that goes against nature – and in the “nature” of life itself. People must – and do – change.
Companies cannot always be in a growth stage. In order to progress they must change or “die”. Some have to pass on in their current incarnation and then re-invent themselves – becoming a more contemporary, innovative incarnation – in order to flow with the current of the times. Some may not survive but sometimes that may be for the better, in order to make room for new ideas, new challenges – and new life.
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season. ~ Heraklietos of Ephesos