The Guide: How Do You Make Decisions In Uncertainty?

The Guide is a series to help you orient in this new reality, navigate the current chaos and shape what comes next - based on The Purpose-Led Roadmap, Method and Foundations.

It is basically answering the question:’ What does it really take to create a new future - in the uncertainty, unknown and unstable?

Here I share short highlights of the concepts that we work with in The Purpose-Led School and The Mapmaker’s Circle - my core programmes. An ecosystem and safe haven to activate you to create a new future - in the midst of the current chaos. You can watch all the previous episodes of The Guide here.

This Week’s Episode

Here is this week’s episode of The Guide on How To Make Decisions In Uncertainty: Stop Spinning Your Wheels And Start Asking The Right Questions.

The Limitations Of The 4Fs

One of the things that I am seeing right now is that it is easy to spin our wheels with all the current uncertainty. To get caught in what I call the four Fs of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. And the 4Fs impact our capacity to make the right decisions - and to know what to do next.

What we are being called to do now is to navigate in a new way - by making new choices, accessing new creativity, and charting our course with new courage. But when we are spinning our wheels in the four Fs, we cannot access choice, creativity, and courage.

The Shift To The 4Rs

So what we need to do is to start asking ourselves questions based on the four Rs - which are:

• Recenter in yourself: What is true for me now?

• Reconnect to what you need: What do I need at this time?

• Reflect on what you want to create: What do I want create here?

• Realign your actions: What would I love to do?

Why It Matters

Why we talk about this in The School is that if you stay in the 4Fs you are limited in how you react.

Literally your brain can only give you as options to get aggressive, control, run away, deny, hide or try and appease your way out of the situation. And we are noticing that a lot of leaders are acting from here at the moment - which is leading us away from the kind of future we want.

The Key To A New Future

In contrast at the School what we are doing is activating and equipping ourselves to create the future at a new level - both personally and collectively and in the midst of the current chaos.

So we train ourselves to stop reacting from automatic reactions. And to start responding in new ways - whatever is going on out there.

At the core, this is the choice to get back into our intentional creation capacity - based on what is true for us, what we see is really needed and what we want to create for ourselves and others during these times.

The 4Rs are a way of self-coaching yourself out of reaction into conscious creation. And if you do it by going on a walk that is even better to shift your brain.

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