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I started blogging mostly as a therapeutic way of getting all the swirling mess that goes on in my mind out of my head and into some sort of cohesive form. The fact that people seem to be reading it is a welcome bonus!

In working out how to pick myself up after last year's fall, I feel I have had all the pieces for some time, but I'm still moving them around trying to make them all fit. Every now and then another piece locks into place and I think by now I have all of the corners and most of the edge bits.

Here's what I know so far:

I'm staying on the Gold Coast for the time being. It's a nice place to be, I know it well, I can get things done here while I build myself up a bit. Nevertheless I want to keep my options open, and when the right opportunity comes to move I will take it.

I feel happy and comfortable in the business world. I understand it, I can move around in it fairly easily, it's fun and interesting and I can find a place in it. It's general and non-specific while also being powerful and all-encompassing. That suits me just fine and gives me plenty of room to run around.

I don't like working for other people. I'd rather be helping people or doing my own thing, or both. Through personality and experience that one is pretty much locked in now Eddie.

I know my strengths, my weaknesses, my power and my limits better than ever. Some weaknesses I will work on, others I am prepared to accept. I would rather hone my major strengths and use them to cover my weaknesses than work a bit on everything and limit my potential. Cooking and cleaning, I'm looking at you here! This one is also pretty much locked in too, if it wasn't already twenty years ago.

I have a need to work and achieve things, and be proud of my work. Having money, having fun, even having love, isn't enough. Happiness comes when all of these things are in balance.

I am a born leader. It's time I get used to it.

My biggest strength is an ability to be in tune with what's going on. If I feed it, respect it and use it wisely I and those who follow me need never be a victim of circumstance.

Part of me will always be alone. Time I got used to that too.

Aside from the things I know, there's things I know I don't know, and things I don't know I don't know. The former are what make life fun, for me anyway. Known unknowns. Where will I be working? Who will I meet? What will happen tomorrow? Where is my next meal coming from? I don't worry much about those things - they tend to sort themselves out one way or another.

Unknown unknowns are trickier. Things that happen that you either don't know about or didn't see coming. The sorts of things that decide people's lives in millions of little ways. These are not fun. These are things that must be watched and monitored and tuned into, if not to know what is going to happen then at least to be able to act and adapt quickly when it does. This is how the strong survive.

Now if you'll excuse me I have jigsaw pieces to arrange.

Tagged as: known unknowns, leadership, philosophy, survival, unknown unknowns