Self-Mastery: Being Self-Directed

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Self-Mastery: Being Self-Directed

Doug DeCarlo, Principal, The Doug DeCarlo Group

November 26, 2005






Extreme projects can press us to our limits. These high speed, high change, complex ventures can take over our lives. For many project managers, their projects follow them home at night and live rent-free in their heads. Instead of having projects, their projects have them. This is precisely what had happened to me. All of my waking (and sometimes sleeping) hours were focused externally on my world of projects. In the process I neglected and lost control of the most important project I have: Me.

Self-mastery is the ongoing practice of leading oneself as opposed to being led (or perhaps, misled) by the world around us. It is art of being self-directed under any circumstances as opposed to having the circumstances direct our own sense of well-being. The ultimate goal of self-mastery is inner peace. When working under adverse circumstances, extreme projects put us to the test. Unless you choose self-mastery, you are choosing self-misery.

There is, and there always will be, plenty of reasons for suffering and experiencing emotional turmoil around projects.



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