If you stretch a rubber band long enough, it will eventually snap, at which point it’s no longer of use as it was originally intended.
Knot a few snapped rubber bands together, however, and you have created something new entirely, something that could be the solution to a different problem.
When that tension starts to mount from the natural order of things in our lives and businesses, it’s often a signal to do something different. Not monumental, necessarily. And maybe not for long.
But something.
In some cases, the only way forward when things get to the breaking point is to snap that tension and create a new form of experience that allows us to work from a different perspective.
In short, sometimes we need to go to grow.
This could look like anything from getting on an airplane for a 3-day conference to taking a 10 minute walk around the block to rearranging our office space to scrapping an initiative we believed was THE ONE.
Movement causes shifts.
Shifts yield results.
The challenge, of course, is that change is hard, which is why most people resist it.
Yet the yearning for something different, new, shiny, sexy generates pressure between the desire to keep things the same and the desire to mix things up in order to achieve the results we say we want.
The secret is to orchestrate the inevitable break so we can have a bigger say in what comes next. It’s only once we learn how to lean in to this paradox instead of squirming away from it that we make room for magic to happen.
