The Weightlifting Power of Clarity

Reflecting on a coaching conversation we’d had, a client told me recently they had felt a weight had lifted. They had gained real clarity about the issue.

What is interesting about this is what wasn’t said. The issue we had discussed was complicated and involved ongoing workplace relationships what were not necessarily going to change or resolve themselves.

There was no solving things or making significant decisions. The issue was still there and would remain something my client would have to manage, but what had changed was their sense of clarity about it.

Clarity lifts weights because it organizes and classifies thoughts, opinions, data, goals, wants and needs.  It clears up the messy thinking we need to do about a complex issue and gives us a greater freedom in our mind.

Clarity also sorts the important from the unimportant and allows us to store things away that aren’t being useful to us. It can give us permission to change our thoughts and drop opinions.

With that freedom comes the opportunity to think differently about an issue and that, in turn, increases the options available to improve or change the issue or our approach to it.