Navigating the Unexpected

The unexpected is becoming the norm.

The world has gone from complicated to complex.

Small changes can have a dramatic effect.

Expertise won’t suffice because changes are happening too fast. In an age of epic change, strengthening our flexibility and adaptability as leaders requires imagination, humility, creativity, experimentation and bravery. The less we know about how to navigate the unexpected, the more we need these messy human skills.

Bravery is pivotal because expanding our flexibility, adaptability and agility leaves us vulnerable to making mistakes. Yet mistakes and other unexpected outcomes show us what works, what doesn’t work, and what could work better.

As Epic Leaders, are we brave enough to reimagine and invent things that we’ve never seen before? If so, we can create with clear intention and commitment a very desirable future.

Epic Leadership Journeys MasterClass in Insight, Innovation & Impact

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. ~Albert Einstein

This MasterClass offers you uniquely powerful ways to receive transformational input that sparks your sense of wonder, curiosity and imagination. In a Wisdom Circle of inclusive women leaders potent yet natural experiential learning ignites sudden unexpected insights, innovative ideas, and actions leading to desired impact.

Enjoy your favorite cup of coffee or tea while you watch this video. See if this Epic Leadership Journeys MasterClass in Insight, Innovation & Impact is calling your name.

And if it is speaking to you, let’s talk.

Remain Calm

As we are seeing with the President of the Ukraine, there are certain moments in time when our innately powerful self shows us and the world who we are as a leader.

The experience I share in this true story that I narrate was one of those moments for me. And what it gifted me continues to be a blessing I share in my Epic Leadership Coaching and wisdom card deck.

Listen to discover what it gifts you.

Epic Leadership Journeys ⏤ A Creation Story

Like a small seed blown by a gentle wind, whispers of a thought blew through my mind in the winter of 2020. Months later, I was opening a package that had just arrived from Amazon, and as I pulled the Sacred Shaman card deck out of its box, I heard in my inner ear as clear as a bell: “This is the prototype you will use to create your card deck.” 

I wasn’t sure how to respond to this clear yet very unexpected message. So I played with the Sacred Shaman deck, looking at the images on the cards and reading the Oracle messages.

Several weeks later, I received an email from a colleague about a MasterClass in card deck creation. I signed up for the free offering and at the end of the introductory series I knew that this was my next step. So in the summer of 2021 I joined the course and began my journey of creating a deck of 54 cards.

Fast forward 9 months to 2022, and the final edited version of my Epic Leadership Journeys card deck and guidebook is ready to go to the designer once the challenges of selecting a printer are successfully addressed.

Meanwhile, an Epic Leadership MasterClass—where inclusive women leaders use the cards for Insight, Innovation & Impact from a shared place of Deep Wisdom—is emerging from the feedback and input of clients, colleagues and friends who have previewed the deck. 

What was barely a whispered thought in 2020 is evolving into my leadership legacy work. Clearly, ‘Destiny’ has spoken.

Tap into the Potency of Not Knowing

What you don’t know is bigger than you. ~Epic Leadership Journeys

The ‘Unknown’ is a place of mystery, creation, and infinite possibilities. Being uncomfortable with not knowing is a natural human response. Yet when you stand in the mystery of the ‘Unknown’ and just allow yourself to imagine what could be possible, your Inner Knowing activates. Notice what your Inner Knowing—instincts and intuition—reveal to you when you ask these 3 questions about your particular challenge, situation, or concern.

• What could be possible that I’m not seeing or sensing?

• What could be an outcome even better than I desire?

• What best possible outcome am I ready to receive?

7 Types of Rest Every Leader Needs

Just because what you’ve been waiting for has not shown up the way you thought it would doesn’t mean it hasn’t arrived. ~Epic Leadership Journeys

Perhaps you’re too tired to see or recognize new possibilities appearing before you. If so, which of the 7 types of rest do you need to receive? Notice the difference when you give all 7 to yourself.

The Impact of Epic Change on Inclusive Women Leaders

You’re busy with work and life, yet feel scattered and “all over the place.”

You’re dealing with sudden rapid change and feel like you can’t get your footing.

You’re seeking a ‘new normal' while feeling anxious, uncertain and depleted.

You need to free up space for mental and emotional clarity, discerning focus, and imaginative creative thinking.

Your concerns about results cause you to doubt and second-guess yourself—not fully trusting your decisions and communications, or your years of hard-won experience and expertise.

In the back of your mind you harbor a growing sense of alarm because it seems you are not doing enough, or need to be doing things differently and better.

You’re searching for practical insights and empowering perspectives to reframe and liberate your epic leadership in these distressingly challenging times.

Innovative approaches and inspired visionary solutions keep eluding your grasp.

This is because the impact of epic change on you is significant. And… You are not alone.

As a leader you are dealing with complicated challenges present in the illusive epic change of these times.

You can’t navigate this epic change, its challenges, and unknown territory ahead unless ‘your come from’ is Epic.

Simply the Best Coaching helps you move into the Epic Expansion these times require of your leadership.

Feel welcome to contact me: sylvia@simplythebestcoaching.com

Wild Wisdom Journeys & Travel Seances... A Sneak Preview

Wild Wisdom Journeys & Travel Seances are transformational virtual travel adventures in clarity, focus, way-finding and direction setting.

They transport diverse leaders, culture shifters, and trailblazing entrepreneurs like you to distant and often iconic destinations.

There in a small intimate group you view the world through different lens and engage in way-beyond-the-box, fun and enlightening shared practical wisdom.

www.wildwisdomjourneys.com/travel-seance-invitation

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A Brave and Startling Truth - Maya Angelou

The poem Maya Angelou wrote in commemoration of the UN's 50th Anniversary in 1995 has continued relevance for humanity during these dark and difficult time now. Her words invite us to lead from this generous space of inner wisdom, shared knowing and expansive possibilities. Ready or not, it’s time.

Maya Angelou reads her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" which she wrote in commemoration of the UN's 50th Anniversary, in 1995. A Brave and Startling Truth...

6 Signature Traits of an Inclusive Leader

Our humanness is rooted in the ways we belong to each other. In fact our brains are hard-wired for social connections. Inclusion brings human dignity, diversity, equity and justice together in powerful and transformative ways.

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