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In recent times, with the gradual recovery of the epidemic, many companies are gradually getting back on track. It seems that most people have just experienced a dream, waking up from the dream with everything to do.
As the founder of a career consulting company, the number of consultations has reached a small peak after the epidemic. Recently, in addition to consulting on corporate growth projects and system career development positioning consulting, in order to continue to help more friends break through development bottlenecks both internally and externally, this year we opened the first The second phase of the customized consultant training program allows future "Zhao Mo" to truly grow independently. Many new student friends asked me: Teacher Zhao, uncertainty will be the norm after the epidemic. How should we face it head-on? Fear of the future?
In fact, the post-epidemic situation has accelerated our uncertainty. Some companies are on the edge of life and death. Although some managers have unchanged positions, their work has become more and more demanding, and they have lost their sense of value and accomplishment.
Due to the nature of my profession, I will have in-depth contact with the founders or middle-level executives of well-known companies. They are executives of well-known foreign companies, listed private companies and even large Internet companies. Although their current positions are high-level and high-paying, even so, they feel The future is uncertain. Looking back on the past, the seeds of inner unwillingness to be mediocre begin to sprout. Are there other possibilities? But facing reality, I was terrified.
But what is the root cause behind this? In fact, everyone will be afraid when facing uncertainty, but behind it is not only whether to prepare for a rainy day, but also whether to have a deep understanding of oneself in addition to the current career. Next, let us talk about self-awareness.
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What should you do when you are in a high position and well paid in a company, but your becomes more and more involved in and you lose your sense of accomplishment? From my past thousands of consulting cases, I found that many people have a relatively stable foundation in the current enterprise. After years of hard work, they have established a firm foothold and become core management or R&D personnel of the enterprise. However, in the past year or two, Although the position remains the same, the workload has doubled compared to before, and it is obviously more laborious than before, and I am trapped in the current involution and cannot extricate myself.
I once took over some of my student friends. They have high-level jobs and high salaries, but the high annual salary does not give them a corresponding sense of accomplishment and value. Just like I was once a project leader of an Internet company, even in a new first-tier city. , but since last year, not only have project allocations been very scarce, but also project development and closing work has increased. However, performance has not increased accordingly. Instead, it has become more and more stringent, and the sense of accomplishment has gradually been lost.
Half a year ago, he gradually began to doubt whether it was necessary for him to develop projects and manage the entire chain? Should you continue to do things yourself or choose to see the outside world.
I deeply understand that he is walking on thin ice at the moment. Although he currently has a high job and a high salary, and has initially got rid of material constraints, the long-term high pressure has made him extremely depressed. In fact, it is not the work itself that is tiring, but because he cannot see it. The longer term future.
After in-depth exploration, it helped him see his future self clearly.
In the in-depth presentation of his vision, he saw that three years later, he would share his valuable achievements with the audience on a gorgeous podium, with bright eyes and firm eyes. Five years later, holding flowers in his hands, he would get I gained the support of a group of like-minded friends, and ten years later I was walking on the beach with my family. Time seemed to stand still, and I gradually saw that behind this superficial sharing, there was actually a transfer of value. why would you say so? Because sharing is the dissemination of years of knowledge, which can benefit more people in need.
When he saw his future self, he gradually burst into tears. The current difficulties were swept away and replaced by a confident self. It seemed that he had returned to his passionate young self again and saw the dawn of the future.
Therefore, to a large extent, the price behind the loss of sense of achievement is forbearing. Even if we encounter a development ceiling and involution at the moment, we cannot see our own value clearly, nor can we clearly see ourselves in the future.
This is the beginning of self-awareness.
When you have a clear idea of your worth and your future self, it’s easier to know where to start.
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However, how to move from forbearance to value realization? Many people mention profound religions, but it is good to have faith. When you can’t see the future, you can seek sustenance. But we live in the world, and they are extremely far away from us. As mortals, we think more about how to put value. Go bigger and realize your ideas.
is actually a return to the original intention.
Speaking of returning to the original intention, Su Dongpo is the best example.
Su Dongpo spent most of his life in relegation. The hard life could not suppress a "hopeless optimist". He could always live a leisurely and poetic life.
During the period when he was demoted to Huangzhou, in order to provide food for his family, Su Dongpo personally opened up wasteland and cultivated land, dug fish ponds, built dams, planted orange trees, and asked people to bring rapeseed from his hometown in Sichuan to plant them. But he didn't mean to be unhappy at all. He believed that he was far away from disputes and settled in a corner of the world. He slept until he woke up naturally every day, stayed in bed on rainy days, and wrote poems and had fun in his spare time...
Being content with the present is the power of original intention. Although Su Dongpo was impoverished, the joy of returning to his countryside and staying away from official disputes gave him more time to be himself. So you can see that later generations used him as a prototype and wrote 387 poems, including many of the well-known "" "Chibi Fu " and "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" allowed his original intention to be settled.
If he still denounces Fang Qiu in the officialdom, can he publish the popular "Chibi Fu"? Yes, but it is difficult to see the leisurely expression of true feelings and bold spirit.
Maybe you think Mr. Dongpo is too far away. Back to the present, what kind of attitude towards life is this?
In fact, each of us has a burning original intention when we first come to this world. However, in the process of growing up, desires, emotions, habits and various temptations in life have forced some people to gradually lose their original aspirations. Of course, this is also the price that has to be paid for growth.
But when most people in the world have lost their original intentions in the world of mortals, there are still a very small number of people who can still retain the original authenticity and purity.
And this kind of purity makes it easier for us to touch the softness of our hearts, so as to see ourselves more deeply.
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Just embracing the original intention is not enough. In my opinion, recognizing oneself lies in the integration of introspection, analysis and foresight. Returning to us ordinary people, when you have the "three powers", maybe you can stay away from fear and become clearer. The first thing to see yourself
is self-examination.
Many people say that the reason why development has stalled is that the development direction is biased. The direction is important, but more importantly, how to consciously discover the direction and then exert efforts.
reminds me that as the founder of a career consulting company, in addition to running the career consulting company, my job is to be an OD and leadership consultant for the company, and a personal career development coach for many executives. But 4 years ago, I I also experienced unprecedented confusion and anxiety.
That was 4 years ago. When I became the vice president of human resources of a listed company, I broke away from the halo. Because of years of accumulation, I have cooperated with many corporate consultants on projects and continued to accumulate more than 4,000 cases. Many people say that you have already If you are good enough, just take it step by step.
But only I know that at that time, corporate consultants were relatively stable, but I entered the burnout period of case consultation. At that time, the cases focused on career planning and psychology, and there was an endless stream of visitors coming for consultation, but the consultation cases were extremely mental-consuming, and Including visiting friends who are severely depressed or anxious at work, my physical strength and energy are constantly overdrawn, and the high-pressure load of consulting and corporate consultants has caused symptoms such as severe chest tightness, palpitations, and other symptoms.
I am thinking that although the effect of one-on-one consultation can be guaranteed, if I still accept cases one by one, my body will most likely be worn down, and my ideal of helping others will not be realized.
And consultants are blooming. I feel like I am gradually becoming a machine. I start to reflect on what is my characteristic? Who do I know best? How can we build mutually nourishing relationships? How can we amplify the value?
After nearly a month of self-sorting and introspection, combined with my many years of experience and training consulting experience, I realized that with so many years of human resources management background, I have contacted the most middle-level and senior management groups. I have an in-depth understanding of a company from 0-1 , 1-10, 10-100 organizational development planning and systematic human resources system construction. At the same time, in a large number of cases and training, he is good at stimulating the potential of managers and activating leadership, as well as the internal adaptation, promotion and external career development of senior executives. When communicating with them, I will clearly grasp their pain, thereby identifying problems and solving them systematically.
So after struggling, I gave up some of the cases and kept them as corporate consultants. I retained my core values and embarked on the path of executive development strategic consultant. I focused more on helping them in depth and produced more results. , and many senior management friends have been with me for in-depth and continuous consultation for 3-4 years, and will continue to do so in the future.
is supported by the power of introspection, because it does not stop there, but constantly reflects and seeks new transformations, so when you are willing to start introspection, you will find the direction.
In addition to introspection, what else can inspire potential?
is actually the analytical power .
Do you know why many people seem to understand everything, but when it comes to solving problems, they are in a mess. In fact, what they lack is strong analytical power, and more about how to find out the problems from the complicated problems when it comes to solving the problems. The truth, at this time, you might as well think about:
What is the cause of the current confusion
Where does the crux behind it come from? What are the obstacles that
cannot reach?
When you can build the framework of analytical capabilities, potential will gradually sprout.
The last one is vision.
Why some people lack the awareness to prepare for a rainy day in their comfort zone? What is lacking behind this is a framework for building foresight.
For example, why is it that companies are developing well now, but they still need to be prepared for a rainy day? Take a foreign company manager I once had. He currently has a high job and a high salary, and will immediately receive equity dividends from the company. He can achieve financial freedom, but is he still unwilling to be mediocre? Although the internal drive is very strong, I actually found that the blind spot is a framework that lacks foresight.
especially vacillates around in decisions involving major issues and lacks courage. The root cause is the lack of similar experience, because in the past, the systems of foreign-funded enterprises were mature and only needed maintenance and execution. However, now, after development, they are beginning to face an uncertain future. I know what kind of role changes I will face in the future, and I don’t know how to change my role to amplify my own value.
At this time, the important thing is not planning, but how to open up the second curve in advance, prepare for a rainy day, and let your many years of value earn compound interest, thereby getting rid of the fear of the future and achieving a new stage of development.
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Throughout our lives, how should we face the fear of the future? In fact, fear is your awakening to the future, but you have not found your compass for the time being. It indicates that you will enter a new stage.
Therefore, introspection, analysis, and foresight are the three major strategies to recognize yourself. Constantly introspect, analyze in depth and build a framework for foresight. You can face the fear of the future, and this is also what makes us self-worth. The three great wisdoms of realization.
Best wishes!
