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how am I venturing into uncertainty… ?

Our ability to persevere with life as a creative adventure and to take other people with us on the journey often depends on how we react to life's inevitable ups and downs.

It's an emotional adventure where optimism is our greatest ally. Underlying this optimism is a fundamental trust in life. This trust enables us to see challenges and setbacks as part of a larger journey. Yet there is another part of us that does not want to let go; it does not trust that the journey will end positively. This part of us over-reacts to each setback and takes it as evidence that our inspiration is false and our innovations will never work. This part of us is driven by fear. In this way, the adventure is not just an outward one of what am I doing? but also an inner one of how am I responding?

From this inner perspective we need to develop an ability to reflect on our emotional state and to discern how helpful it is to ourselves and to others. Our emotional state is both a source of great power and great danger.

The question in the South of the inspiring-innovation wheel is therefore designed to help us to stand back and notice our emotional reactions and the extent to which they are useful. As we hold the breakthrough question how am I venturing into uncertainty…? from moment to moment, it heightens our awareness of how we are feeling and how those feelings are affecting the situations we are in. In short, this question focuses our attention on how we react to the unknown.