Future Focus: Intentions, Goals, and Change

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Future Focus: Intentions, Goals, and Change

Hano kuri 2023 yuzuyemo ibyo dukeneye kumenya byose ko twitaweho kandi dushyigikiwe.

Urashobora gusiba ibi hanyuma ugakomeza umunsi wawe, cyangwa urashobora gusoma kuburyo icyerekezo kizaza kijyanye no gukira muri Ahera.

Ahantu hose habaye abantu, habaye imihango yemera inzinguzingo zigihe. Hariho inzira nyinshi turanga ibyashize nibyo twizera ko bishobora kuba bitaraza, haba hamwe no kwizihiza umwaka mushya, kwizihiza ukwezi, iminsi y'amavuko, isabukuru, cyangwa inzibutso.

Twese twunvise kubyerekeye agaciro ko kwishyiriraho intego, haba ku kibaho gikurikira, gutangaza amasasu, cyangwa kubona umutoza, kwishyiriraho intego-bizaza bisa nkaho byari byarakaye igihe kitari gito. Kuri twe dukunda gutinda gato kera, iki cyerekezo cyerekezo kizaza gishobora kuba ikintu kinini.

For those living with distress, it may seem near impossible.

Kuki?

It is because triggers transport the person who lived the experience to the past, to the emotional place and time of the event, often without the person knowing what is happening. The pattern-matching prowess of the human organism is, in these moments, its worst enemy. What feels like danger may not actually be, and the experiencer is prevented from moving forward by very real physical sensations delivering the message that what happened in the past is happening right now in the present.

Distress flies under the radar in this way, because it feels like real and justifiable responsiveness. Someone uses a tone, gives a look, says something, and suddenly we’re reacting. Since we can identify the reasons for our (re)actions, we convince ourselves that it is just how we are. In this way, reactions become personality traits. Truly pernicious.

This is an example of why focus is so vital for people who work in this field. We bring awareness to our triggers, which is a great first step, but if it is the only step we take suddenly we’re aware of what we’re doing but still rather helpless to stop it. If we bring a future focus to our awareness of triggers, we can create goals for alternate versions of the immediate, the short-term, and the long-term futures we wish for ourselves and our environments. If we are consistent in visualizing more helpful options, our emotional reactivity will begin to respond to these futures rather than our pasts, giving us the opportunity to access whole lives that maybe we didn’t have access to before.

Nibikorwa bitoroshye kandi bikomeye, ariko fata akanya nonaha kugirango ubone verisiyo yubuzima bwawe wifuza cyane. Mubyukuri mubyumve. Niba ibitekerezo byawe bitangiye kubihakana no guhakana ibiganiro, saba icyo gice kugumya kumwanya muto.

Turashobora kubikora. Turabishoboye rwose. Turashobora kubikora hamwe.


Inama yihuse

Mu mwuka wo gukorera mu mucyo, ngomba kwemerera ko ndi shyashya kuriyi myitozo nubwo numvise uko ikora imyaka ibarirwa muri za mirongo Ibanga, kwigaragaza, ibintu byose - mubyukuri ni imbaraga zidasanzwe zo kwiyizera, the imbaraga za selile zacu zikorana tugana kuntego dutekereza nkana. Nigute ukora? Cyakora kuko niba mubyukuri, rwose wishyiriyeho intego nkana, uziga ibyo ukeneye kumenya kuri izo ntego, shiraho ingeso zikikije izo ntego, kandi izo ngeso nuburere bizagufasha mugushikira izo ntego. Uzatangira gukora nkaho ikintu ushaka ari icyawe; ko ari ikibazo gusa. Uzahindura imyitwarire yawe bwite, kandi abo hafi yawe bazatangira kukubonamo ikintu wifuza wenyine.

Uburyo bumwe bworoshye bwo kwishora hamwe niyi nzira ni uguhitamo ijambo ryubaka 2023.Ijambo rimwe gusa, mantra nto, izakugarura kuri wewe mugihe ubuzima byanze bikunze bigoye. Ntabwo ari amarozi, ariko birashobora kuba amarozi. Niba uri ubwoko bwa Forbes, dore ingingo ivuga kumashusho kandi, kubireba, dore imwe ya Inc.com mugushiraho intego .

To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, if we want to change, we need to become the change we want to see.


Murakoze.

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