Lost in Transition? 3 Steps to Finding Your Way

I want to give you another update, if you’re listening, in terms of being able to stay active in a world that may or may not be becoming quite passive, if nothing else.

With my experience of the Turkish economy expanding, the Turkish Lira, in short, has taken a predominant and immediate dive. Over the past year alone, it seems that from the locals I’m speaking with perspectives, the cost of living inside Istanbul does NOT reflect the status the internet tells me the Turkish Lira actually holds. That is to say, prices have skyrocketed while the extent of the dollars use in such things as technology, food, and housing has gone way down.

Now, I’m creating this blog to ask, rhetorically, what do you do when caught off guard in such a manner as the one I’ve been caught off guard by? In addition, how do you find a way through when, if you're on this journey with me, you don't know where you'll be tomorrow or maybe even where you'll be today, and are finding less and less places to stay in your price range you prefer, what you're trying to accomplish may in fact be actively hindered, and your bottom line can't not affected by the totality of what you don't yet know.

Along with all that, since your experience of their currency is limited to what you’ve already experienced, you don’t even know what you can and cannot afford and cannot say you cannot afford something you don’t know for sure that you can. I think, in a certain way, that simplifies things because it limits what is your choices down from the myriad of possibilities … to just one. The rule is to keep going. Just keep going. That is, you can’t turn back because the only way out is forward. You press on. You seek out new opportunities, perhaps opportunities you can’t find in your immediate vicinity and maybe even opportunities you will have had to stretch yourself to bring within the realm of possibility.

To You refuse to shut in and you refuse to shut down because in doing so, you push more opportunities away from you some that are even right under your nose. Let’s make it even simpler … ultimately it comes down to 3 simple tasks that reflect back one overall idea … the idea of staying open.

1) You keep an open mind. Allow new thinking to take over, revealing possibilities, opportunities to take action on, and trying out and testing new ideas and seeing if they work. 2) keep an open heart. Your emotional mechanisms in my worldview can provide the amplitude for the desires you seek but only if you don’t hinder the signal you are putting out. 3) Keep your feet on the ground. Mostly this last step is for me about keeping yourself sane. That is to say, you want to remain grounded, flexible in both your communication and your thinking and what that does for you in bringing in these new opportunities that can’t be predicted but allow you room to see a bit more of what’s possible, as you take your next first step.

That’s it. Carry on, soldier.