This has an impact on organisations and industries in terms of changing strategy in response to a changing environment. But living in a VUCA world can also have a huge impact on individuals – increasing levels of stress, anxiety, and ill-health - unless we develop the skills and the mindsets that enable us to cope, adapt, and ultimately to thrive.
There are physical, emotional, and mental elements to improving individual wellbeing, all of which involve becoming more self-aware, self-confident, and self-sufficient.
Self-awareness is using evaluation and reflection to become more conscious of our emotions as we experience them, what triggers negative or disruptive emotions, and our individual strengths and weaknesses.
Self-confidence is trusting in our own abilities, capacities and judgments, and developing the belief that we can successfully face the day to day challenges and demands that life throws at us.
Self-sufficiency is developing the internal resources to provide our own solutions, applying the skills and strategies that we have learned at the right time and in the right way.