Beneath the market turmoil, budget cuts and perceived personal struggle, there is an individual and collective awakening happening. Here are some suggestions for thriving through these trends:

Your Own Truth

People are starting to hear and follow their inner knowing. External messages and demands are not working for them and they are turning to the only place where truth is found, within themselves. This is a cornerstone of awakening, which often happens when old ways exhaust themselves or severely compromise your well being.

If you find yourself feeling out of synch with your environment and turning towards your own voice, you are on track. If your company regards this highly and encourages you, it is the right place to work. What you bring from this pure place will lead you both where business needs to go. If work does not appreciate and support you, trust the new. There are many healthy places and ways to prosper.

Quietness

Do not worry if you are feeling the need and urge to be still. Small talk becomes exhausting when you discover your depth. With authenticity, the price of empty socialising becomes too high. You find inspiration and fulfillment in solitude and have more discerning relationships that are deeper and more meaningful.

Managing Opposites

Your life and business also settle into a more balanced flow between opposites, like quiet time on your own and then interactional time with people. Both are healthy and productive in different ways and the movement between them keeps you dynamic and alert. One is a solution to the problems of the other, so alternating between them becomes like breathing in and out.

New Language

To articulate and work with your new experience, you learn a new language. Commodities, performance criteria and relationships are changing, too, so not only do you need to express a new personal reality in new ways, but the form and function of your connections and collaboration with coworkers and customers is also evolving fast.

A new language may take getting used to but people pick up on your genuineness and respond well to it. They crave and seek the same. Also, with practice and comfort in the new way, the quality of your use of existing business language will be enriched by where you are coming from, which is a place of growing consciousness.

Being Real

Authenticity is perhaps the most simple yet profound pillar of power in new business. Nothing is more important or more effective. It works for you personally and for your colleagues and clients. Being real is inherently intelligent. True innovation surprises you when you are being yourself. After a lifetime of conforming at a price, realness truly delights you, too!

Again, if your organisation cannot respond wisely and enthusiastically to your awakening, it may not be keeping up. I have found, though, that people and businesses act healthily and heartily towards open sincerity, as it is the evolutionary impulse with all of us. Take risks and lead through growth.

Staying Present

The here and now is where it is at! Gently bring yourself back to it whenever you remember to or notice that you have drifted off. Presence brings your intelligence to bear, making you centred, alert, responsive, insightful, understanding, compassionate and happy.

There is nothing you cannot handle here and now. There is nothing more uplifting, fulfilling and prosperous than the present. Live in it for a living.

Robin Wheeler is a transformation specialist and author of the INSIGHTS series of books. For more information, visit www.robinwheeler.co.za.