By Jamie Mason Cohen, Resilience Speaker + High Impact Leadership Development Speaker
Ready to Make Big Changes? It’s Not You, It’s the Environment That Needs to Change
This flower is flourishing in a pot in my backyard but was fading away in the front yard one week ago. Sometimes it takes changing conditions to flourish on new ground.
Why, in one career path, did I feel numb, where in another one, I feel alive? Was it me? Was it the job? Or was it the environment?
In one work environment we might feel isolated, alone and underappreciated. Yet, with a fresh start, on new soil, surrounded by different strands of light, we grow.
Same plant, different environment — in one condition it shrivels, in another, it blossoms.
Like a journeyman/woman athlete who gets traded as an after-thought and then becomes an all-star.
Like a person labelled as having a ‘bad attitude’ or ‘not a team player’ by a supervisor who becomes an inspiring and selfless leader on new land.
Change is sometimes forced on us. We feel uprooted, displaced, and lost.
Yet, in the crisis and uncertainty of what’s next, there might be abundance, progression and enriched relationships waiting for us in another garden.
We just don’t realize it until we take the step and plant ourselves in new earth.
