CONSIDER THESE THREE CIRCLES THAT GUIDE YOUR CAPACITY.

By: Khalif Barkhadle
DIGITAL JOURNALIST

Published On:

1st February, 2023.

For Impact Consider these three circles that guide your capacity .

✓Your circle of concern
✓Your circle of influence
✓Your circle of control

1.Your circle of concern.

Our “circle of concern” has exploded and its expansion will only continue. We have a global pandemic that has upended our entire way of life, causing unprecedented uncertainty, job loss, and transformative changes to the world of work for the foreseeable future. We have an urgent civil rights movement rightly challenging leaders to speak up and take action against the also-deadly pandemic of systemic racism. We have a looming election in the United States that underscores the larger political unrest and division in the country at large. And we have countless smaller daily issues that compound the big ones.

Overall, there are concerns involving the economy, politics, public and community health, and social justice all converging at once with no end in sight. And your baseline responsibilities as a parent, citizen, colleague, leader, friend, and community member replete with to-do lists, tasks, meetings, texts, a deluge of email etc. as the cherry on top. The list continues on ad infinitum. Taken together, it can seem daunting. How can one person pierce through amidst an ever-ballooning…