What is sober driver- usually understood to mean a mindful driver on their journey who is aware of their surroundings, adaptable, attentive to the here and now, and not influenced by sensory input.
Looking at the world of organisations, we are very often influenced by mind poisons (other people’s stories, emotions, needs, other people’s goals that we don’t understand or embrace, etc.) and we are not very present in the moment – there is always a final destination somewhere further away that we have to keep striving for.
Are we sober leaders in our organisations and in our lives? To what extent can we adequately assess our surroundings, accepting them exactly as they are and adjusting our journey accordingly, while knowing the final destination?
How much have you been able to avoid taking the effects of other “mind drugs”? Are you under the addictive influence of the mind-medicine of expectations-disappointments, whereby you don’t accept life as it is, but with a critique of how it really should be and what else is missing from being happy?
In general, it tends to be the case that the person who seeks happiness in the distance is more unhappy than the person who does not desperately seek it, but is soberly present on the journey. Those who seek happiness will always find that something is missing. He finds a reason to be unhappy for the moment. Whoever understands that there is nothing more than the present moment and accepts it is calmer.
I can and must have a destination on my journey, as a driver, as a leader of people, as a leader of myself, but the important thing to reach the destination is to be present in the split second and soberly present in life, without mind drugs.
