Agile Living
Technological advances, globalisation and abundance of information and choices have made our work- and lifestyles fast-paced, highly interconnected, complex and competitive, burdened with too information, choices and change, and pressured by relentless performance expectations and uncertainty. To try to resist these changes or to try to increase our control over our work and life is already quite futile, and will become even more so.
In fact the word “control” is key here. Technology and globalisation are rapidly introducing factors that decrease our sense of control over our environment, and we’re dealing with more and more uncertainty as a result. All of this makes for a lifestyle with very high levels of stress and fear - a lifestyle that demands Agile Living Strategies.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Agile” as:
…marked by ready ability to move with quick, easy grace, as in an “agile dancer”
…having a quick, resourceful and adaptable character, as in “an agile mind”
The word “agile” refers to both mind and body, and it’s about being able to be responsive, flexible and adaptable, and being able to change in an effortless and elegant way - and that’s what Agile Living and thriving in this era is all about.
The four skill areas for Agile Living, and thriving (instead of striving or just surviving) now and into the future are:
- Being able to create a calm, clear and resourceful mind amidst chaos, change and uncertainty.
- Being able to easily and comfortably change your thoughts, feelings, behaviour and skills, and to comfortably lead yourself and others through uncertainty and change.
- Being able to utilise your whole mind, and perform both left-brain-directed and right-brain-directed thinking processes.
- Being able to identify and dissolve limiting assumptions and create the mental freedom to innovate new ways to do what you love the way you’d love to do it.
We’re living in an incredibly interesting and dynamic time. The opportunities far outweigh the challenges and offer us greater freedom than ever before. This may well be the greatest time to be alive - if you’re willing to develop the Agile Living Strategies that will enable you to overcome the challenges, take up the opportunities and thrive.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ~Charles Darwin
If you’d like to become more able to adapt quickly, gracefully and resourcefully in your work or other areas of your life, then click here to find out more about the different ways we could work together.
