What happens when we’re happily meandering through life and we’re on track with our goals and aligning to our vision and values, but something stops us dead in those tracks? Well, let's face it, we usually freak out a little! Especially when it’s something beyond our control or it’s turbulence that we hadn’t prepared for in our “blue sky” thinking. These situations can sometimes really throw our ideals off track because we’re not prepared for them in the way that we had planned our ideal and linear approach in optimum conditions!

But what if we can work in a way that is a bit more pragmatic and go with the flow of traffic? This is where we can look at pivoting, a bit like a business start up does when they’ve gotten going with their prototype and realised that some of the conditions, or some of the product, or some of the customer appetite is not how they had imagined or planned. So what do they do? They course correct - they move to where the blue skies are and follow the money.

In life we’re not all about following the money, but as a metaphor from the world of business, we can see that for all intents and purposes, this is the end goal. Money (as a metaphor) is our pot at the end of the rainbow. So if we have an end goal in life (or at least for that period of time) but conditions take over and leave us a bit high and dry we need to find a way to deal with it. That might be retracting completely, continuing regardless, or finding an alternative way, which is what we need to do to allow ourselves to gracefully deal with the roadblocks.

By setting ourselves up with options and then weighing these up as viable or not viable, we can then make informed and fully owned decisions about pivoting to make life a lot less hellish and take back control of the wheel!

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