Do you relate to the feeling of being over-committed and having too many balls in the air in life and/or business?
If so, is that something that you’ve vowed to change after this next push?
In yesterday’s Meeting of the Titans, we explored some of the ways that we can get stuck in a groove with old patterns, such as spreading ourselves too thin or being overcommitted, and the effects that this has on ourselves, our progress, our team and quite often, family. Perhaps even being aware that it’s not working and feeling almost powerless to change it.
This can be an indication that we are hitting up against subconscious blocks, family patterns, limiting beliefs or other programming, making it almost impossible to change what we’re doing, unless we attend to what’s really going on.
This would also be the point that many leaders make promises to themselves, such as ‘once we’re past this push’, or ‘once we’ve reached that financial goal’, or ‘once I’ve got the new team member, product, sales funnel, etc etc’ … THEN I’ll be in a good place to make some changes.
What we’re dealing with here are subconscious drivers and these can be in opposition to our conscious intentions, making it difficult to move forward and make a change to a new way of operating. Our systems (bodies and brains) essentially become biochemically addicted to the particular cocktail of hormones released by certain experiences. To the point that even if we consciously know they are not in our highest good, we will subconsciously seek out situations, people and outcomes which perpetuate or continue this experience.
For example, we can begin to feel more comfortable in stressful situations, when there is an obstacle or opposition to overcome, than we feel when things are more peaceful and running smoothly. We can develop a need for the adrenaline and stress of being overcommitted and overworked in order to feel ‘comfortable’, as this is what our system has become used to.
This can be termed ‘challenge momentum’ and can be difficult to change, without some introspection and investigation into how that particular experience is serving us, as well as applying the relevant tools or strategies to rectify the momentum we’ve become biochemically addicted to.
When the conscious and subconscious minds (and heart) are aligned to the same purpose, progress is easy and mostly assured, so in any situation where the results are not matching our conscious intentions, there is likely some inner work to be done to bring the outer world into line.
