Aligning with Your North Star... and connecting with Context.

The Industrial Growth economy no longer holds the relevance it once did. This gives more people the opportunity to transition to the Social Economy.

In the Social Economy there's a lot more freedom and time to connect with what's important to you. Some people may find this painful, while others may relish the opportunity to begin doing stuff they've always longed to do.

A lot of this depends on identity and recognizing what you have to offer, what's meaningful to you and how you would like to make a difference. Once you've really begun to dig into these concepts it becomes important to recognize how you can shape your vision, beliefs and assumptions of the world around you to manifest what you want.

If you are standing on earth looking up at your North Star, how would you map out your road to your destination? Your North Star is your ultimate reality, from which point you can begin to work back to your present situation and then implement what you need to take you to your North Star.

Working in the Social Economy is about creating a connection with your North Star (not purely from the egotistical sense) and then working organically with the process (trail & error) to manifest your vision.

The process however, unlike the Industrial Growth Economy, is very fluid, soft and flexible because it doesn't confine one to a particular set of goals. Goal setting is a product of the Industrial Growth Economy. In the traditional sense, goal setting has always been about getting stuff done.

Hence the reason why there's so much stress, anxiety and depression associated with the Industrial Growth complex. The Social Economy is more aligned with a healthy tension and leaning into the creative, evolutionary impulse which drives one forward towards ones North Star. It's more concerned with leaning into the future and connecting our gifts/talents/skills to the particular context.

It's therefore difficult to transition to the Social Economy from the Industrial Economy if you don't understand context and how to relate your identity to that particular context.