Handling Change, Assuaging Self-Doubt

Over the past few years, we’ve weathered several cycles that have caused us to reconsider whether we’re happy, whether life is working for us and what we’d like it to look like. The mental shift of reconsidering causes stress and discomfort when we first realise that we’re not comfortable with the status quo, even before we know what the desired changes might be. Sometimes, our reconsidering results in small differences in choice on a daily basis, and sometimes it puts into motion a larger and further reaching request for change.

Often, realising we’d like to feel or achieve differently means we start to notice the contrast of other options more clearly, and that contrast starts to help us form new desires and new goals.

Change, however, is never easy or comfortable, and it generally causes us to feel a degree of self-doubt somewhere along the line. We can’t see what might be on the other side of the change we create or wish for, and the unknown, whilst exciting, can always make us a little testy.

When we ask for change and something different, it’s only right that we question ourselves — especially when we’re in a position of leadership. Choosing change affects multiple aspects of our lives and other peoples’, and causing that change is often our sole responsibility. That said, change invites others to reconsider what they want too, and when the process is openly invited and supported, it can be…