Inside Out.

The outside world is tough to understand.

Seth Godin, though, helps us see the map and compass brilliantly.

"This is Strategy" teaches us how systems, games, empathy and time engage with each other to make things happen.

And "This is Marketing" teaches how empathy, tension, status and affiliation make change happen.

This is the out.

What about the inside?

This is where Martha Beck comes in, along with Richard Schwartz and other professionals.

The polyvagal theory helps us understand our body compass. When we are in fight, flight mode, or freeze or flop modes. How do we get from dorsal vagal collapse to a ventral vagal state?

Martha Beck's Beyond Anxiety is an excellent resource to get started on that.

And then there are the parts, as Richard Schwartz teaches in the Internal Family Systems. How our vulnerable, manager and firefighter parts engage with each other. How can we start becoming aware of our emotional compass?

No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz is brilliant to start with on IFS.

The question here is not OR, it's AND. In order to move towards our best life, we need to understand both inside and out.

And then we can start engaging with possibility.