S2 E12 Seasonal and Spiritual Pivots - Riding Waves of Change Gracefully

Hello Lovely Listeners!

This is my first solo episode in a while. I hope you enjoyed my conversations with Kathy Oneto, Heather Ussery-Knight, Stephanie Lindloff, and Patrick Geary. 

Today I want to give you a useful model for thinking about how to ride the waves of change that are inevitable with more grace and ease. 

I mention the article I recently wrote for my Substack Newsletter on the What it Means to be Human in a world of Artificial Intelligence. 

Using my "marital pivot" (definitely a spiritual pivot, if there ever was one) I explain Jenny Blake's Pivot model which includes:

1) Plant

2) Scan

3) Pilot 

4) Launch

More about this idea can be found in Jenny's book, Pivot - The Only Move that Matters is Your Next One, and at her Pivot Method website here. 

This is such a useful way to think about change. What people usually skip for forget is the process of planting ourselves where we are and taking stock of our strengths, values, and interests. We need to do this before reaching out to scan, so we can move with our own internal compass, which is our embodied wisdom, to a direction that's a fit for us. 

As we pilot different options, we can think of these small experiments as windows into our next step, or possibly like horses at the Kentucky Derby. We gather data to see where we might want to go next. 

This is a helpful reduction of risk stage before we go into an "all out" launch and take a bigger step. 

What I love about this model is that it's cyclical and it's more of a mindset than just a set of activities we need to follow. Change is a constant, so Jenny helps us get better at it, developing this metaskill of pivot as a life skill. 

I applied it to my relationship, because I was seeing all the parallels here. Maybe in a future episode I can unpack one of my (many) career pivots so you can see how it applies there as well. Better yet, read Jenny's book if you're interested in this topic.

Jenny Blake hosts the Pivot and Free Time podcasts, and she is a wise soul. Full disclosure that I'm a part of Jenny's BFF Circle Community. She's been an integral part of helping me develop a podcast through her offerings and mentorship through her community. If you are a small business owner, looking for a generous community of support, I highly recommend it. 

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