Do We Pivot When We Make A Mistake?

 

Have you ever found yourself in a situation WHERE life throws a massive curveball your way, leaving you feeling so overwhelmed and unsure of your NEXT STEPS?  YES dude, I've been there, in that deep dungeon several times in the past, and as I learned through the rough-and-tumble game of life, we need to have the balls to PIVOT WHEN WE MAKE A MISTAKE📗📙📘

Problem is, PIVOT is so overused [and because of that, it has been essentially ignored [even by myself sometimes]] BUT the problem is, PIVOT DOESN'T even ping your radar anymore.  Listening to psychologists, PIVOTING may NOT mean WHAT you think it means and it's NOT always the best way to navigate a crisis.   The first mistake being highlighted is that we tend to use PIVOT as a 'catch all' word to describe a change in a situation💧💧💧

Problem is, much as many of us are consciously aware of PIVOTING, sometimes we tend to be 'shooting straight from the hip'.  Problem is, off-the-cuff reactions would mean that actions are taken OR effected with the least logical OR practical thinking to process.  LIKE those knee-jerk reactions.  LIKE emotionally-triggered actions bereft of a purposeful meaning.  That leaves you in the damp even before the next twist happens💥💥💥

Bottomline is, it all boils down for us to be LEARNING FROM [our] MISTAKES.  PIVOT OR NOT, we should all piggy-back and run an 'RCA' [root cause analysis] for each faux pas we make.  PIVOTING for the sake of running away from a problem DOESN'T resolve the problem with finality.  End-result is that unclosed problems keep piling up till things get compounded❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  I CAN'T disagree more with this one-liner BUT I need to qualify and harp back that a mistake NOT RCA'd [i.e. root cause analysis] may mean that lightning could hit you again.  Regrettably, that could trigger a vicious cycle that will go and run berserk.  In the shortest word, YES, PIVOT WHEN you make a misstep BUT never lose sight that PIVOTING is only a QUICK FIX and may NOT be the FINAL FIX dude😌😌😌