Remove excuses, learn from failed attempts, and get back to work

My Uncertainty research is coming together nicely, there is still time to participate if you are interested – see below.  A third theme that is showing up speaks to a feeling of paralysis.  Excuses, hesitation, worry, anxiety, and fear of failure are preventing us from doing good in the world.  This can be remedied – TLDR version – You are Good Enough Now.

My mantra is to do the best you can with what you have some of the time – this is what it means to be good enough now.  Almost 10 years ago now, I wrote my first book, Good Enough Now, and the message is just as relevant today.  Through my consulting work as well as my leadership and diversity keynote work, I need to respond to this paralysis pattern because it is costing organizations bottom line, productivity, and directly impacts employee retention.

“Excuses and failure without learning is a bigger loss that COVID was,” says one of my global CEOs.

So, what needs to be done?  Jess Pettitt to the rescue.  Well not rescue, but I certainly can both identify with this and help you and your team get past what is preventing real work.

Most of my work is about power and powerlessness.  In the balance is productivity, belonging, happiness, creativity, innovation, and success.  The key to maintaining and developing a desirable workplace culture is allowing for and rewarding trying.

That’s right – trying.

Trying is trying – that is for certain.  Trying can be exhausting, demoralizing, as well as invigorating, inspiring, motivating, and is the medium in which growth, personal and professional, can occur.

Trying to try when it is the hardest is what I mean when I say that we can do the best we can with what we have some of the time.  I know. I know.  We are living in a time full of a lot of uncertainty, but fear and anxiety aren’t new elements to our world – how we respond could be.

Stop and take a second to ask a question you don’t know the answer to and listen as if you have something to learn.  Be generous with yourself and others because we have no idea what anyone is carrying behind the mask they wear as armor for protection.  Share your authentic self as a point of relation by taking your mask off, even when this level of vulnerability makes you scared.  Try.  Invite others to try.  When you can’t, try to try.  Encourage others to do the same.

To keep this conversation going – or really get it started – I published a new book, Almost Doing Good, and will be showcasing my new keynote What if it happens? as a free virtual event and you and your team are invited!  Specifics will be announced when the research survey closes.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/Tvd2gKGfTSiGZgu9BrYrXw

June 11 10am pacific

June 19 12pm pacific

June 24 2pm pacific

If you are interested in being part of the research project on uncertainty, this is last call to complete the survey.

Good Enough Now Keynote

Sitting around pointing fingers and waiting for change to appear on the horizon—has it ever worked for you? Do you feel imbalance between who you are and who you think you should be?  Do you see fulfillment, better relationships, and stronger teamwork as something to work for, but not possible now?

The truth is that all of these are available to us in this present moment, right where we are. And by being our authentic selves, we can immediately improve our companies, relationships, and communities.

This is Jess’s signature breakthrough message—an innovative, practical guide to ridding ourselves of self-doubt, self-limiting beliefs, and habitual excuses so that we can do “the best we can with what we have some of the time” and be the best versions of ourselves right here, right now. Yes, even you back there in the corner—I see you.

BONUS SESSION:

Workshop: Coping with Uncertainty and Unknowns

Before you can effectively normalize complexity, you need to understand your own relationship with uncertainty. Jess will facilitate a self-reflection journey to help you trace where you have come from and what you have learned. You can participate in a primarily silent reflective process and an authentic conversation regarding current emotions, anxieties, and realities.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify messages you learned about yourself
• Identify messages you learned about others
• Identify moments of your own behaviors that impact others
• Connect behaviors to your own self learning
• Participate in an authentic conversation regarding emotions, anxieties, and the realities of living

Bring pen and paper to (re)connect with your own foundation during this complicated time full of unknowns.