123: How We Could Book Series Part 3: Leadership Tools to Coach Your Team to Accountability

And part three is answering that call.

And why that's so important to answer the call is there's this thing I realized where we can have our experience validated.

We can be clean in our thinking what the problem is.

We can see our part in it.

And then we can know our role in how we're supposed to contribute to a solution and get this thing figured out.

And there's still something that holds people back.

And as I was writing this chapter, I was thinking, what is that? Like, what is the most easy way to distill that down and just in plain language? And what it came down to was really, I know it sounds so simple, but fear, right? And it wasn't just fear of what could go wrong or what's ahead or the uncertainty.

I realized sometimes it's fear of it being successful, fear of things getting so good.

And so this fear idea is really what kicks off.

Why don't people answer the call with all this momentum and clarity to go into next right action? And why is it keep them from step five, which is now take next right action, like see it through and move forward until here's the key, the next unpreferred reality.

And then you just go back to step one and say, given this unpreferred reality, how do I need to evolve next? Go through it again.

And this becomes the cycle of a really fulfilling career and life where you get to enjoy the ride and have impact along the way.

It's that balance of mystery and mastery.

You have the tools to master that.

circumstances as they come your way, but then you're open to the mystery of what may come your way.

So you're not trying to control everything.

It's just an amazing way to go through your career and see what happens in this journey we call life.

So fear, I wrote here and highlighted false events appearing real.

If you know our stuff at all, most fear is not from the reality.

It's from the story I add on about the reality.

What it means down the road and what it means for my reputation and what is going to happen next if I did take that action.

This will get all scary.

The fear is from the story more than the reality in most cases.

And so that's where that fear is.

And one of the things I hit on here that I thought was interesting was talking about overthinking and how when we overthink something, Without a tool, you're not trying to actually solve the problem.