Creating Context.

Definition of Context:



“The wallpaper on the walls of your life”

Your context determines how you interpret anything that comes your way. Generally speaking, it’s a pastiche of your upbringing, decisions you made in your early childhood, and from the influence of early teachers and mentors.

It’s also the environment that gets created by governments, organisations and influential individuals. They create a context that they back up powerfully with repetition, education and story telling.

You can create your own context. You can create your context based upon values and stories of your own creation. Most people don’t know this.

You can also create temporary contexts that allow you to view things in ways that your default context cannot conceive, cannot hold.

There are contexts within which you can be resourceful and there are contexts within which you are dis empowered.

If you can recognise that you are being dis empowered, it is useful to create a context for yourself where you can be resourceful. This is very useful when you are in tight situations.

Often times, when circumstances make you feel helpless, it’s only because of the context that you are looking through.

Learning to master creating contexts is a very useful skill for you.

A good place to start is by reading anything by Peter Drucker - He talks about creating business context, but this is a good way to practice creating general contexts. This link is a good place to start, being a book written by one of his students:
http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/9780814409190.html#reviews

Being Sharp!

Personal Sharpness - seeing things clearly, being able to cut to the important stuff. Being able to quickly focus, make clever distinctions and then make intelligent decisions which then allows you to plan and implement precise economical actions.

It’s about being quick witted, intelligent, astute, clever, incisive and on the ball! Being onto it - ahead of your game, outside of the drama, able to work through things logically and in line with your values.

We all need to improve our sharpness every day in some way.

What supports our sharpness?

Our health is paramount, our fitness has a huge impact, letting our intellectual nourishment slip has dire consequences, as does letting slip our body's nourishment.

Our relationships need to be conducted and experienced at a high level, our business affairs always need to be impeccable. Our spirit need to be at peace, our work needs to be full of meaning and our heart needs to be full of love.

Sounds like a lot?

It is.

Does it all need to be neatly packaged, box's ticked and everything packed away?

It's always a work in progress, a balance that needs to be struck, with new skills to be learnt, forever finding more stuff to clean up and more efficient ways of doing things.

You can have this be daunting or you can step up to it every day with a song in your heart. For the true reward of maintaining sharpness lies in the practice of doing truly extraordinary work, having rich relationships and living a life that you love.

What's Really Important to You?

You've got to stop thinking about what you have lost....

...and start thinking about what you have to gain!