What to Do About Feeling Stuck? - As a Leader, Business, Team, Organization or Community

Part 1 of a 5 Part Series 

Copyright@2011 MiriamGroup Executive Advisors

When leaders and their business, team, organization or community are feeling stuck or stagnate, when the life force is flowing in and not flowing out - or flowing out and not flowing in, it is time to go within and do the work necessary to create internal momentum.

Unfortunately or fortunately the state of stagnation cannot last for long or the business, team, organization, community or leader begins to decline.

Ask:  Where is the leader, business, team, organization or community not receiving or not giving?  Or are we doing what is necessary to clear and expand internally in order to receive and give?  Giving and receiving are the natural flow of business and life.

The cycle is to go within to expand the ability of the business to receive.  Prepare internally. In this case, yourself, the organization, team, business or community to receive and give, to give and receive.   It is the full cycle that needs balancing.  

We have been given the message through our culture to give in order to receive.  The truth is that we must be willing and able to receive in order to give.  For it is from the creative energy we receive that we give.

However, the vessel necessary to receive, i.e. your leaders, business, organization, team or community, must be ready and capable of receiving.  So the vessel must be prepared. 

A leader prepares their business, team, organization or community to receive by internally doing the work necessary to receive at the level of the desired paradigm shift. Not by going outside the business first. Preparation is based on the future vision of the business, team, organization or community. 

The life force energy is the energy or force of creation.  Creative energy must be flowing both in and out in order to grow, change and even more transform.

If the business, team, organization, community is not prepared internally to handle the response from the outside world then the vision of the leader, business, team, organization or community - the vision of itself -  must at the least expand or even more effective, transform.  This begins the process to receive and give.

(To be continued next week in What To Do about Feeling Stuck, Part 2: Creative Energy and Transformation.  Subscribe to receive an email notice as each of the 5 Part series is posted.)