Glom Initiatives

Yo!

Mental Health Action Day isn’t for talking…

🤔Well, maybe it is if you’ve been thinking about seeing a therapist.

But even if you don’t do that, you can do so many things to support your psychological health.

Things like:

🚶🏻‍♀️Taking a walk in nature
📱Calling a friend
🧘🏽‍♀️Meditating
☕️Carving out time for a mindful cup of tea
🏋️‍♀️Getting some exercise
📖Journaling for five minutes
✍️Drawing or doodling
🙆🏽‍♂️Doing a few minutes of light stretching
🌌Laying down on your back and gazing at the sky

Today is yours. Do something KIND for yourself.

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These days it seems like things are moving incredibly fast. That feeling most of us have isn’t imagined, it’s real. The accelerating pace of technology largely contributes to why things feel so breakneck. Although Moore and Martec laws aren’t empirical, they do provide useful context for understanding what we are experiencing.

Here’s an example of where that middle school algebra and high school calculus that you thought you’d never use again comes in handy.

Exponential (hockey stick) growth and linear (straight line) growth diverge. This divergence creates the necessity for human and organizational resets in order to keep up with technological advances. We fall way behind if we aren’t creating and employing strategies that help us accelerate personal and organizational growth.

Glom Initiatives addresses these human and organizational challenges using a framework we call Intentional Accelerated Development or IAD.

Visit our website for more information on how help teams grow more quickly in order to adapt to rapidly changing work environments.

It’s been a rough 30 days.

Our original business up in flames. Being non-operational.

Waiting on other people and processes supposedly intended to assist in these situations.

Testing my resolve.

Here’s some of what I’ve learned. Agency and autonomy are two things I value most. And I hate when they are taken from me.

You may think it’s about being in control, but it’s really more nuanced than that.

Control refers to influencing external outcomes.

Agency relates to your ability to make choices on your own behalf.

Autonomy refers to your freedom.

Embracing uncertainty is one way you can retain autonomy and agency when circumstances are beyond your authority.

By accepting that things change and are constantly in flux, you allow your brain the cognitive flexibility to recognize opportunities, the creativity to problem solve, and the bandwidth to adapt. These skills help you manage stress and minimize suffering.

You are not helpless.

Never forget that you do have dominion over yourself and your choices.