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Managing Uncertainty Series Part 4: Mindfulness: The First Tool of Uncertainty


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With everything going on politically, economically, with the pandemic, within your organization, maybe with your family, are you feeling a bit overwhelmed? Do you wish you had more insight and tools to better deal with these uncertain times?

In today’s episode, the fourth in of our Managing Uncertainty series, we look at one of the critical tools we need to develop to manage uncertainty more effectively. 

Let’s Walk!

 

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich From, German social psychologist

 

“It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.”

Psychologist Harriet Lerner

 

“We might feel that somehow we should try to eradicate these [8] feelings of pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and blame, fear and disgrace. A more practical approach would be to get to know them, see how they hook us, see how they color our perception of realty, see how they are aren’t all that solid. Then these eight challenges become the means for growing wiser as well as kinder and more content.”

Pema Chodron

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