Letter #1 of 10: Harnessing your back to school energy

Pencils sharpened ✔️
Blazer ironed ✔️
Protractor and compass locked and loaded (not yet lost or broken) ✔️

Yep. It's that time (well, bar you, Australian friend...). Like an exploding star, we burst back to school with a short lived (or just me...?) flame of joyous energy and excitement. All good feelings and positivity before the grind of autumn and the reality of school, with all its confusions and complexities, wears you down.

Enough of the cynicism, I hear you say!

Let's keep that spirit flying all the way to Christmas. Oh, ok then!

Here's how: A new email / newsletter / podcast sequence from me to carry you through.

A journey, if you will, to you navigating your always uncertain future.

What's Initiation Got To Do With It?

A few weeks ago I wrote about initiation. In short, a journey of change - you ripped from your bed in the dark of night, sent off, tasked with a near impossible challenge designed to make you suffer and stretch. But it's in your ultimately surviving that the fruits lie; that'll be you returning to your life / work / community with a new found resilience, adaptability and confidence.

At it's heart, initiation is a framework. It serves myriad useful benefits : it helps you navigate a boy to man change, or such like. It also teaches you the rich fruits of struggle.

Much of that we've forgotten.

These emails and the Peripheral Thinking podcast will talk to these ideas over the coming months: renewing, regenerating, breathing life into tired systems (like you, your company or the world out there!), managing complex change and ultimately navigating your always uncertain future. Because if we know one thing for sure it's that the future is uncertain, despite what you tell yourself.

These emails will be a sequence. They'll arrive weekly. Sometimes they'll be words alone and other times words they'll point to the pod.

Where Will These Emails (and podcast) Take You?

By the end, you'll be wiser, energised, freer of worry and more happily out of control ;-).

And maybe you'll be nudged to work which leaves only positive footprints, because that's what's needed right now.

If this not for you, no problem. Hit unsubscribe here.

Alternatively, if one of these taboo topics is stifling you (if you haven't read this, feel free to give it a like!), or you feel that your current work - or current company - is done, keep your inbox (for reading) and your ear box (for pods!) open. We'll talk to navigating this, your always uncertain future, with ease and joy.

A little teaser to get you started:

The route through all this is less control, not more...

...And re-finding your deeper roots.

Oh and your coming super power is your creativity (by which I don't mean writing songs or painting pictures…).

Until next Tuesday.

Ben

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