“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die."

These powerful words shine a light on the human resistance so many of us feel towards change and self-disruption. How often do we cling to comforting illusions and false narratives out of fear of the unknown?

But what if we reframed this journey not as one of being ruined, but of metamorphosis and transcendent becoming? I invite you to read and share your perspective.

"There is nothing more difficult than taking the lead in introducing a new order of things." - Niccolò Machiavelli

In today's ever-changing world, Machiavelli's words ring truer than ever. Disrupting the status quo is inherently challenging, yet embracing self-disruption may be the key to not just surviving, but thriving amidst uncertainty.

Instead of treating life's uncertainties with frantic urgency, let’s follow Suleika Jaouad’s advice: reframe ambiguity as an opportunity to approach each day with the openness and curiosity of a newborn, savoring the present with awe rather than panic.

Values represent what you consider to be important in life, or in Dostoyevsky words, values are what you live for. If you’re struggling to be as successful as you’d like to be, there’s a great chance that a discrepancy exists between your goals and your values. If our goals are antithetical to our values, success is all but impossible.

Strategic disruption is the key for professional and personal reinvention, and growth. By strategically disrupting and breaking out of your comfort zone, you make yourself stronger, you find you have choices. You create space for growth and thriving. You can respond, rather than react.

We have more choices than ever before and we are constantly bombarded with more information than we can keep up with. We are under constant disruption. Begin agile, or being flexible and adaptable to change, is an essential skill to help us handle all the change and thrive despite the disruption. But we also need to open our minds to change and proactively and deliberately seek change and reinvention!

We live in a constant state of ambiguity. There’s less and less clarity, less predictability, mixed and conflicting meanings, reality is hazy, we can’t make sense of things. We have so much thrown at us on a daily basis that we don’t have time to really think, reflect, and absorb. And our minds get scattered and fragmented.

An antidote against all the above is agility.