Self-awareness and self-responsibility are at the core of self-leadership, which is at the very foundation of being a leader, as how we show up makes all the difference.
Today then, a story linked to this. This week I attended an evening workshop (zoom, naturally) around “Noticing and ways of knowing“, part of this month’s “Curious Community” that has been created and led by Katie Elliott (also a past guest on WhatComesNextLive).
For me, and around when I am moving in a “direction of travel” around anything significant, my body does give clear guidance. This guidance system relates less to specific decisions at any moment than to a “direction of travel”, and can be related to a work project, a personal life choice, even something as simple as booking a vacation.
My “body guidance system” is simple:
- When I am moving in the wrong direction, my body has some underlying level of physical tension and discomfort
- When I am moving in the right direction, I have a sense of “knowing”, this sits on my body as a feeling of calmness and ease.
This guidance system is unrelated to any thinking or analysis, it is something my body tells me.
Now, from this clarity, an uncomfortable truth is that sometimes I ignore that guidance system when I am going in the wrong direction, and yet, no matter how much I use my mind to rationalise that, the feeling doesn’t leave me and is (gulp) always right.
So, my clarity is to take time to notice what my body is telling me and to allow myself to trust it more.
What do you notice? could you notice?