We’ve never ever seen the dramatic shifts in the world like the last 4 years.

The “healing” term has never come up that frequently.

As we all are battling with some aspects in our life, it’s our natural instinct to raise the questions:

Are we safe? and what should we do to make us more secure in this era?

For the first one, the answer is we are not!

To address the second, we must be fully aware of the first.

On a bigger scale, the threats can be seen more evidently.

In term of climate, the Earth has become more violent over entire human history. Super hurricanes are a new norm and extreme weather has been witnessed all over places. If we can’t slow down carbon footprint in the atmosphere in the next 2 decades, and temperature reach 4 degrees higher than pre-industrial time. Climate catastrophe  is irreversible.

Technology is also not an exception. When most of us, ordinary people ,do not have protecting shields against privacy violation. Where our personal data can be mined, stolen and analyzed in an instant. Some may even fear that AI is capable of creating a parallel version of us with a distorted image or identity.

In business world, everything becomes more challenging and unpredictable too. When our jobs or even the industry we are in may disappear in a very short time.

And finally in political and health care sectors, the instability is all too clear for us to see with the ever lasting conflict in the Middle East and East West polarization in Ukraine war. Covid-19 also brought us to a vivid reality check and turned the world upside down.

On personal level, we are at inherent risk everyday. Everytime we commute to work, we risk being hit on the road, although the chance is small, we never know when it may come.

Our comfortable jobs, the ones that we are proud of and often attach our value with, and thought would be with us forever may be lost or turned to someone else, even in another country because competitiveness is getting tighter. We don’t even know if the organization we are in can survive in the next phase.

We are also at bigger risk of being disconnected to our relationship circle and our living purpose.

No one can be sure if what is with us today will be with us forever.

So what measures we should take to make us feel safer?

There would be some ideas that I want to share after overcoming a tough time.

Firstly we must recognize that our values are independent of what we do for a living. Be grateful for small and beautiful things that come to us.

Beside that, we should accept that we will never be perfect and we can’t control what is outside of us. In doing so, we can adopt a new way of thinking-the growth mindset which is being open and focus on the meaning and process rather than the end result, let every events in your life be a opportunity to learn and complete yourself, like an old saying goes: difficult time would be your greatest teacher.

Have the willingness to be a life time learner, be curious, be hungry, be humble to say I don’t know. Build new knowledge and skills on broader spectrum, even when it’s not comfortable at first.

 Develop a side hustle that may safeguard you  on some bad days. Being a generalist not only protects us against the unpredictability but also brings more joy to our life.

Experience and explore different areas of life, activity, hobbies, places, feeling so you can collect more living materials and help you discover your passion, cus you can’t understand your passion if you don’t experience deep enough.

Build meaningful connection with people. Cus in the end it matters most.

Walk out of your comfort zone, jump into the unknown, have the boldness to fall sometimes

Just as Nelson Mandela once said you will never live your life to the full without taking worthy risks.