Re-orient in the storm

In business, you may hesitate to choose a single road because your creative mind gets wrapped up in too many possibilities.  You may be motivated by excitment and desire to shape change yet, be unsure what should happen next.  Reading widely and seeking avenues through mentors, seminars and courses, will all assist you to narrow your forcus and pin down apppropriate roles and courses of action during turmoil.  Consider these tips for re-orienting in the storms of life. 

1) Advocate strategies for your future.  Somewhere along the line, you need to make choices.  You may be used to following standard operating procedures in automatic mode when its time to learn how to function for youself in manuel.  Learn to relish the challenge, strain and tragedies. 

2) Focus on applying your beliefs to societal structures.  Group experiences may become important to intellectual stimulation and your desire to discuss and debate.  Take part in local Chambers of Commerce, attend Rotary meetings and other associations to test the waters for some of your ideas. Sharing lessons learned may provide you with useful and timely ideas.

3) Let your intuition guide you.  If you happen to have many 'irons in the fire,' you would benefit from solitude to figure out which pursuits are really valuable and which ones aren't priorities.  Discern what's important to you and what would positively affect your community.  Where your pursuits aren't helping, they're hindering and may require quick attention.  Separate business issues form other issues.

4) Don't be concerned with others.  Its easy to become concerned with what other people may be thinking, judging or whether they deem you as incompetent.  It can be tough to face challenges of intellect if you see your professional role as an extension of who you are.  Realize vulnerability is good if it forces you to face your fears and weaknesses.  Deal with them.  The people respect you is far less crucial than whether you have valid reasons to respect yourself and abilities to apply lessons learned wherever you find yourself.

5) Recognize when ego is a problem.  You'd be surprised how ego can be a reason for business disintegration.  How you perceive, react to and attack problems may reveal you don't have a clear grasp of reality.  If you're dealing with emotion-laden, personal issues on the side or related to your business, it would be in your interest to learn to separate them from courses of action.  

6) Pay attention to the facts.  The consequences of the situation beyond your control are less relevant.  Conduct a logical analysis of what needs to be done by when and for whom.  Create a hierarchy of needs and desires and determine which changes are really warranted.