Leading with certainty

Growing a business and leading your organization can be fraught with ‘what-if’s’ and ‘maybe’s’ and general unknowns.

Deciding which way to go can feel like you’re at the fork of multiple paths.

So, how can you create certainty, when you don’t feel at all certain?

First, what creates certainty?

Is it more information?

Knowing you couldn’t fail?

Knowing if someone will buy?

So consider this, does having more information really create more certainty? Perhaps in some cases….but we can never really have ALL the information. Can we?

Consider how you make decisions now.

Usually, what I find is it’s a combination of:

The best information we have in the moment + an inner ‘gut’ wisdom.

So, if you’re faced with a decision now, or multiple decisions, you likely have the information you need, so how are you accessing your internal instincts?

In the continuous motion of business and career, if you are able to cultivate a practice of connecting with your inner instinct, your ‘gut’, your intuition….this can be incredibly powerful.

This helps you to create certainty in knowing which direction to take.

Embrace taking regular opportunities to reflect and be intentional and deliberate about reflecting on your business and your work.

You see, it’s this piece that I find we skip over entirely at times.

We race to get more information, asking people around us, checking news sources, articles, podcasts, continuously accessing more and more information from the outside world. Sources external from us.

But, how often to you access your inner counsel? Your inner wisdom and experience?

Checking in with yourself is a powerful piece to the decision-making puzzle that is always with you yet is often under-utilized in favour of other sources that don’t know your business/organization as you do. Don’t know your vision as you do. And aren’t as aware of your capabilities as you are.

This is how you lead with more certainty. By accessing your own counsel, your own opinion. Your values will surface and be your guidepost.

The combination of seeking your own inner wisdom, experience, and learnings from past successes and failures with the factual world (information) gives you what you need to make the decisions you need in your business.

I encourage and challenge you to create regular time and space for this exchange with yourself to take place.

When was the last time you turned inward and trusted your own opinion?

NOW is YOUR time.

Ariana