Imagine if you can reset yourself. Imagine if you can restart yourself.

Now imagine if you can’t

The thought of being unable (or unwilling) to “change your mind” frightens me, and I firmly believe the ability to adjust your views and convictions as facts and wisdom evolve in one’s life is probably one of the highest forms of self-freedom and maturity.

Some people would never restart a thought, an act, a belief, a policy, a decision, a direction…etc., maybe because of fear of what might happen or what they might find out. I’ve reached a milestone in my life where I can confidently claim that although some are afraid, others don’t know how to. I understand (I know) the fear of not pushing the reset or the restart button. Sometimes I like to assume this is the most vital asset you can assimilate in a group of people, ensuring they don’t reach for it and reconsider their preferences.

We are all guilty of it, some more than others. Some of us have buried those buttons so deep we don’t even find them. It isn’t very comforting to find yourself clinging so dearly to what is familiar than what is better. It is more troubling when you lead, and your fear of restarting and resetting is spread gradually. Gradual consequences are allusive; by the time you find figure them out, you could easily have forgotten it was your fault altogether.

It took me a while and a good deal of distance from my previous “circles” to realise how some of the leaders I’ve worked with were in denial and living within an absolute walled garden. It took me two daughters to admit I’ve been guilty of the same as well.

Imagine if you can not reset yourself.
Imagine if you can not restart yourself.
Imagine if you can, yet you won’t.

What a horrible state of existence that must be.