Do you have a Shift List? Hitting rocky spots in the road is a virtually inevitable part of your career journey. Here's a great article with some ideas on minimizing the impact. As the author puts it...
A Shift List is simply a list of activities and attitudes that have the power to shift you from feeling blue to feeling new. Your Shift List is any way you devise to remind yourself of the actions that have the power to transform your mood and put you back on a roll.
He goes on to outline several options...
Shift Your Attitude
Shift Your Activity
Shift Your Approach
Shift Your Focus
Shift Your Intake
Shift Your Outflow
Shift Your Space
Shift Your Body
Shift Your Vibration
Shift Your Pace
Shift Your Age
Shift Your Style
It might not surprise you that my favorite is "Shift your age."
Play on the ground like a baby. Fly a kite, roll in the grass, or build a fort like a kid. Laugh with delight for no reason like a child. Dance all night like a teenager. Sit on a mountaintop like an old sage.
There is so much joy to be had in just not taking ourselves so seriously and stopping a while to play.
[via getting things done, productively (whose blog seems to be down just now)]
Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst SM
This is a great way to look at things. Thanks for sharing this article. I think there is a relationship between these kind of shifts and breakthroughs.
How about shift your IQ, shift your coachability, and shift your role?
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa Haneberg | August 18, 2004 at 04:14 PM