This edition is for you when you are waiting to find out what comes next: a role under review, an industry that is shifting, a decision you must make without all the facts, or a period of waiting for an outcome. Navigate Uncertainty & the Unknown helps you live well in the meantime.
It helps you build tolerance for not-knowing, make decisions with incomplete information and find steadiness in ambiguous times. It draws on research on uncertainty, on waiting well and on decision-making. It is a resource for wisdom and perspective, and it complements professional support rather than replacing it.
Inside is a personalised card deck and an ebook, both carrying your own name on every page. The sections follow common forms of uncertainty: Career Uncertainty, Financial Uncertainty, Relationship Uncertainty, Health Uncertainty, Global/World Uncertainty and Waiting for Answers, with themes such as Trust-Process and B-Patient that apply to any kind of not-knowing. Each card shows a theme, an image and a short description on the front, and on the back a curated set of quotes from six wisdom traditions with room for your own handwritten notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book you can read on a tablet or phone, or print and bind.
On WorkSmart4Life you find it on the library shelf under "Life Wisdom: the moments of a working life". I suggest you begin with the situation closest to your own, perhaps Career Uncertainty or Waiting for Answers. On each card, read the quotes and choose one that speaks to you today.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life