![]() Everything was directed towards “stop the pain.”įortunately, I ended up back in Boulder, Colorado and was able to get a session with a talented personal trainer and health expert named Jeff Sidwell. Meanwhile, as I was navigating the energy-sucking pain of the pinched nerve in my neck, and going about my life, I tried many strategies to get out of the pain. This is a great mindset to have in supporting your employees or kids as well.įocusing on the problem didn’t help much. How can I listen so carefully as to discover the pattern that is the crux of a paradigm driving a leader’s behavior? And better still, how do my clients ultimately realize it for themselves in order to shift their perspective? David Hawkins).Īs a coach, who helps people with a variety of business challenges, this is exactly what I am after with my clients: finding the leverage points that unlock insights and a shift in paradigm. A locomotive can be stopped if you know where to put your finger. In complex systems, the critical point is where “the smallest input will result in the greatest change.”įor example, the gears of a giant windmill can apparently be halted by lightly touching the right spot. Through many nonlinear events that followed, as I tried to get unstuck, I stumbled into a concept from systems dynamics called critical point analysis. Here’s why I’m grateful for the learning from this accident. I was stuck, and suffered through several days of coaching retreats in the backcountry. The pain was often unbearable, and my fingers were tingling for several weeks. I caught the entire force with my shoulder, and then a couple days later, the whole neuromuscular system locked down, pulling my neck out of alignment and pinching the nerves running down my left arm. ![]() This might sound a little odd, but I am grateful to my Border Collie, Laika, for whiplashing my neck and shoulder with the equivalent force of a car crash last summer.Ī thunderclap spooked her during a walk, and she bolted down the street at full speed, catching me off guard with one of those nifty retractable leashes that extend to about 30 feet.
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