Untangling Limiting Beliefs
Thriving Means Shedding
Building muscle in suspending beliefs is the underpinning in the game of all change work.
Change work isn't simply a corporate initiative. Change work exists in every moment you interact with the world outside of your own head.
Change work happens on high functioning as well as low functioning teams. Every time a new team member joins, you are by default thrown into change work. (Resetting is a practice teams use to flow with changing team formations.)
Every leader change is change work. Every administration change is change work. Every start of a new day is change work.
At the completion of every project, you occupy a mutable space. This is sitting in change in present time. The "in-between" of the past and the future.
At the start of every quarter, when working in a continuous change culture, you design change for the upcoming one. (Or, you should be.)
Change work is ultimately consciousness and awakening work. Change work is present moment designing on and within the complex Field.
The complex Field is fractal and dimensional, meaning you are it and you exist within it in all the places you roam. You do your own work and you lead and participate in the collective work. These are attractor forces on the Field.
Unsticking
Whether you are an actor on the Field, a leader leading the Field, or a practitioner attempting to move the Field, never forget that infinite variables are in play concurrently and continuously.
You learn to build a reliable and trustworthy instrument within that is so responsive and adaptive to enable you to bob and flow responsively and adaptively in the external tides of change. You come to appreciate and direct yourself as one of infinite factors.
Individually and systemically, you begin to brave the discomfort of looking at what keeps you limited.
Limited looks like complaining, explaining, repeating, and looping. To confront and upset the equilibrium of complaining, explaining, repeating, and looping you open the proverbial hood and face it. Collectively. Overtly, not covertly. In dialog together, not in back channels. Maturely, not immaturely. Trusting, not scapegoating or sabotaging. Humbly, not egoically. With open ears and hearts.
You ask —
"Where are we at?"
"What is keeping us stuck?"
"How do we admit that the same tooling that arrived us here will not get us to the next horizon?"
"What unconscious and sub-terra beliefs control us?"
You interrogate —
Your beliefs’ shapes, forms, history, and sources without the fundamentalist commitment to them.
You squarely look fear in the eye to loosen the grip on the system of beliefs, learning about the programming.
You accept how beliefs create and maintain blind spots, antagonise growth, momentum, and evolution.
You learn to —
Work with the principle that beliefs are limiting by their very nature.
You realise —
Making new decisions is a key way out of the looping, complaining, stuckness, and entrenchment.
Limitation is a state by which individuals and systems return to naturally, when not actively doing the work of continual expansion and elevation. Therefore, unsticking and shedding are practices needing tooling. You learn to consciously create disequilibrium against the inhibiting regression to limited believing.
Building this muscle is effort. Effort is work. Work is what you are here to do so you are actively becoming potential and possibility individually and collectively — continuously.
Get out of your head. Get into your broader intelligences. Stop interfering covertly or overtly. Interrupt your own unconscious operating from fear.
Do what you don't usually do. Because you have to start somewhere.
Start by shedding.