UNDERSTANDING

Third publication in the Change Acceleration series

Be with yourself, your team and the environment around in alignment with true needs.

Most of disagreements with others and within ourselves comes from lack of understanding what we really need and what are the true needs of the environment we get in touch with (whether it is another person, our team, our organization or the market we contribute to). We know what we want and we push to get what we want. Often, when time passes we realize that what we wanted was in reality not what we needed. Our "wants" comes not from Ourselves, but from Something else.

In discovering; more precisely uncovering; our true desires we need to get in touch with Something that blocks a true understanding and pass it through. When you want to understand markets' or organizational needs, and create out of those needs a clear and ambitious vision; you team will chase; you shall to go beyond what you and others want. You should rather uncover what needs have to be addressed by you together. Something in you and Something in others falls into uncoscious interaction that hinders a true understanding. Skipping true understanding results in lots of setbacks, disappointments and lost efforts later on; on the path. The more clarity you have around needs the more clear your purpose will be. Energy and motivation will flow to fullfill it. Right choices and right actions will follow.

If you can understand yourself; get deeper and uncover your true personal needs; you will be capable and motivated to do them same with your environment. Have you seen people's reactions when you truelly uncover their needs during the meeting, how their faces started shining, how the relationship between you and them shifted in the moment? Have you observed yourself when finally you got it, you understood why something happened, what was the hidden purpose under what just happened? Touching yourself through you deepest desires changes the dynamics inside of you and changes the dynamics in you environment. You stop doubting, your overthinking lowers in tone, you mind gets more peaceful and your body more relaxed.

When you drive your vision forward from the place of purpose; and that purpose is created from a good understanding of true needs of your environment and yourself; all actions flow with ease. Even when you face a challenge, you know that there is a hidden reason under it. Instead of fighting or complaining about barriers you transform them. You treat issues as hints for a need to realign your actions back to what is really needed. There are needs that are permanent, that you want to realize chasing your long term vision and there are needs that emerge in the moment. Addressing emerging needs will accelerate your progress even further than when you stick to the plan. A plan is just a plan, managers use them to keep operations running. Leaders drives the vision forward adapting their plants to reality that changes every moment.

With the ability to understand; with the ability to uncover true needs; you become somebody who reads the environment easily and adapts to it. You are the one who drives things forward easily transforming obstacles on the way. People will follow you, as they will see a wisdom in your actions. They will recognize your ability to stop and deepen understanding. They will appreciate working with you, because they know they are doing right things and they are personally growing to better versions of themselves.