If you feel too logical, organised or analytical and want to improve your flexibility at work – you’re at the right place.
In this blog, I’ll share 5 steps that will help get you un-stuck and achieve flexibility at work with ease – in the long term.
Hi, I’m Elina, and I train analytical businesswomen who
- freeze or
- get stuck easily when unexpected happens,
to adapt quickly with ease, and see more opportunities to act on.
These steps come from my experience with working with them, and my own personal growth journey.
1. Learn how to trust yourself.
The more I work with the smart, logical and disciplined women, the more I see they’ve got something in common at the beginning of the training program:
they don’t trust their ability to make good decisions quickly.
Because they need to prepare, right?
Well, not really – and it’s not possible most of the times nowadays.
That lack of trust, when you don’t believe you actually CAN act quickly and do something right – it creates stress and tension; then the tension builds resistance, and THAT snowballs and makes you freeze.
So it’s important to trust yourself. Easy, step by step, but steadily – it’s the basis of all the next steps.
Learning how to trust yourself is a marathon, not a sprint, it won’t happen overnight, so it’s better to start today.
2. Learn how to use the logic FOR you when plans change.
So, your superpowers are analytical skills and working in structure, right?
And they create problems when plans change, don’t they?
If so, I’d guess you didn’t know that logic and structure IS your key to get out of unexpected situations!
When you know how to use the logic to find ideas quickly – you will become unstoppable.
And that will help you trust your ability to make good decisions on the spot, and therefore, build your creative confidence.
(if you got scared by the work “creative”, don’t – being creative basically means knowing how to create new solutions where there aren’t ones yet. No art or crazy outfits’ party – it’s just a skill, applicable to any industry).
3. STOP learning.
What?
Yes, exactly 🙂
II’m not talking about the previous points, thought – it’s something else.
If you:
- constantly sign up to some “extra interesting course that I HAVE to know before I act” – and
- after this course comes the next course “because I HAVE to learn this detail as well to be ready”,
- and because of this neverending loop you often procrastinate the ACTUAL action –
you’re in deep TROUBLE.
Because the truth is – you’ll never be ready.
It’s impossible to know everything.
Even SIri doesn’t, and it’s a constantly updating program.
So the best step is to stop learning and to give yourself an ultimatum – no more courses until I finish (the project you’re procrastinating on).
Why is it necessary?
To build the previously mentioned Trust in Yourself. That you CAN make good decisions on your own, even if you fail at first.
And that brings me to the next step.
4. Celebrate the mishaps and fails.
So, what’s new about it?
Blah blah blah, you already know you have to “embrace the mistakes” and “step out of your comfort zone” to grow – the internet is full of quotes from The Most Successful (or Successful Enough To Be Quoted).
Right?
But.. do you actually… DO it?
When you make a mistake – do you DEEPLY understand that it’ll lead to something good, or does it make you freeze and not trust yourself?
Celebrating mishaps usually is the same as the broccoli topic:
“Yes, I know it’s healthy, stop telling me, I know it!”
“So you eat the broccoli?”
“No, why?”
If you just blushed or giggled because it’s true, and your inner critic is usually louder in your mind than the positive encourager that ACTUALLY CELEBRATES THE MISTAKES – this is the sign you know it, but you don’t do it.
So you need to take this step seriously.
5. Let the ideas flow, and criticize them later.
When you jump into action and make a mistake, it’s important not to stop the action.
The more you stop the action, the harder it will be to start it again.
So the first rule of sudden plan change, especially if you’re already in the process and a mistake has been made – let the ideas flow.
Sometimes all you have to do, is not to stand in your own way.
Let yourself name observations freely, define the problem or the question to work on, and brainstorm some ideas without thinking.
That will give you something to work with, so you’ll adapt to the mishap sooner, and maybe an innovative, never-seen solution will be made instead.
So, let the ideas flow, criticise them later.
These are the 5 steps to boost your flexibility at work.
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