First of all, congratulations to each one of you for reaching the other side of the two challenging years of the pandemic with grace. I am sure it must be a mixed feeling both personally and professionally as you look back at the two years that went by.
While we wished these years to GO quickly and business and life to return to normal, we would agree that these years also helped us GROW in many ways. Carrying forward the learnings from the last two years and to help us continue being on this growth path, I invite you to ask these 4 questions to yourselves, as you ring the bell for the year 2022.
How can I break my new comfort zone?
It took us some time to settle with the challenges that pandemic brought with it for the speaking industry. Overcoming the initial discomfort, we learnt to navigate through the virtual world and some of us even mastered this art. With this, a new comfort zone of being a ‘virtual speaker’ has also settled for us. With the world slowly opening up and new ways of working and consuming content being explored by our audiences, it’s time to shake & disrupt ourselves again in 2022, to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and ask ourselves, how can I break my new comfort zone?
How can I magnify my impact?
Everyday, things are changing not only for us but for our audience too. While, we might think we know our audience well, it’s time to put on our empathy hats again and reconnect with the changing needs of our audience with a fresh lens to help us magnify our impact in 2022.
What’s the legacy I wish to leave and how can I make the year 2022 count?
Last two years helped us in getting grounded with the realization of what matters the most to us, both in personal as well as professional space. Many of us reconnected with why we do what we do! Let this grounding be your guiding light in 2022 and begin the year with ‘meaningful & purposeful stretch goals’ that will make you feel proud when you look back at the year gone by.
And lastly, how can I GROW and not just GO through the year 2022?
‘Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently’, and when things are done differently the learning & growth follows. Be open, be curious to explore the possibility of new ways of thinking and new ways of approaching
the same problem that you have been solving for quite some time for yourselves and for those around you. Let 2022 be the year of exponential growth!
