Isn't work supposed to be exciting all the time?
Do you appreciate what is not happening as much as what you want to happen in your career?
Despite what might seem obvious, life and work aren't supposed to be exciting and action packed every moment of the day.
What if slow productivity is the oxymoron we should all embrace?
This topic is something Alia McKee wrote about recently from a Sensitivity Cycle perspective. In hopes that you can also benefit from this perspective, I wanted to share it with you.
The Sensitivity Cycle focuses on four elements: Clarity, Action, Nourishment, and Rest/Reflection. To better understand and appreciate the contrast of life and work, we can use these four elements:
1️⃣ Clarity - It depends on vision. It requires creativity. It requires strategic insight. It can take time, be slow. Friends, clarity matters, get quiet with yourself and dream big.
2️⃣ Action - This is when you get stuff done. We typically work in this zone without the other elements (clarity, satisfaction and rest). But take a moment to consider that... Why do we do that? Without the cycle, action is uninformed and immature.
3️⃣ Satisfaction - This is when you review the work done and take in nourishment, learning and growth from those efforts.
4️⃣ Rest - This is when you pause. And you wait. Clarity (see above) arises from the lulls, the quiet spaces.
Clarity, Action, Nourishment, and Rest/Reflection - Consider a career in which the lulls and quiet spaces enhance the peaks and crescendos.
Imagine what could happen if you didn't just tolerate variability, but encouraged it in life and your career.
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Developed by Ron Kurtz, the Sensitivity Cycle is an aspect of the Hakomi Method, a mindfulness-centered somatic psychotherapy modality.
