‘Today’s vibe’
…is a thing I’ve done on LinkedIn for a while. It’s usually a passage I have read previously which chimes with the general feeling in the air today. That can be a resonance with work, exploration, circumstances or whatever.
But the feeling today is… well, actually, I’m not going to go there.
Because today’s vibe is a phrase. It is one that Toban Shadlyn and I have been discussing recently, in relation to the work we seem to do, to the course we run together, and perhaps strategic design in general. I used it into a presentation last week, to start threading it together with some other thinking. I hoped I would not need it today. But it seems more vital than ever.
Today’s vibe is where the work is.
Right now, it becomes clear that there are people, communities, species and environments all around us which need us. They deserve our skills, abilities, compassion and care, especially in times when it might seem few others are thinking of them at all.
This is where the work is.
There is no perfectly formed description of a task, no listed expectations for delivery, and it is not all tied up in a tidy package. Because this is not where the jobs are. It is where the work is.
You might see perfectly what needs to be done. You might need shift where you stand to gain new perspective, or clear some things out of the way to reveal the work needed. You could fly up to ten thousand feet to find clarity in the bigger picture. Or get down on your knees in the garden to find where to start.
The work will fit around things, and emerge between things. It will ask a lot of your energy, your words, ideas, your time.
And that is a good reason to save up as much of those inner resources as you can, and not fritter them away them on the forces that would rather the work wasn’t happening at all.
But it will happen, because you, and millions like you, will take today as a sign you are needed more than ever.
You are needed where the work is.
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