Dynamism in life

As time has passed and as I have accumulated more experiences, I've found myself more and more often telling my story to colleagues, interviewers, pupils or friends about the different changes in my life while pursuing a career and life-fulfilling experiences. After telling these stories I noticed a pattern of cyclical and radical changes that I have made every 2 to 3 years responding to accomplishment of objectives, goals or even an enlightenment to my mind which led to act and change.

These changes have included moving to another country, city or company given by the completion of studies, settlement of a job position or inspiration to grow either professionally or personally. You know you have reached this state when your mind triggers the question “What’s Next?” usually at the same time that your routine becomes stale and you start to count your minutes to get out and do something else. When this happens, it is important to take a step back and believe your “next” is... that objetive or goal you have in mind.

Let's think of dynamism as the combination of realization and reaction, and depending on your situation, can be on a life level or on a day-to-day basis. Either way, you need to be open minded ready to make yourself uncomfortable, willing to listen to your inner voice as well as your peers, disable your lizard brain and set in position to audit your current state. Only after these steps is when you can enter a realization period, a time that begins with the question "Where do I want to go?", "What do I want to do?", continues with analyzing alternatives and ends with the most important phase of them all: action towards your new objective.

I still don't know which is harder between realization and reaction. I think this would depend on your personality. For some people it is harder to listen, have situational awareness and know your surroundings , for others it is harder to take "radical" actions and move on or adapt. There are 2 quotes from Sun Tzu's Art of War that can be used to describe your attitude towards realization and reaction.

The first quote is related to adaptation (which requires situational awareness and understanding your surroundings).

"...Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
 He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
 The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing".

The second quote is burning the boats, related to moving forward and taking action. He said that when soldiers arrive to port, they should destroy and burn their boats so when they are in battle their only option is to move forward and to avoid the slightest thought of retreat to cross their mind. Bringing this analogy to your life, you should always make your decisions based on what you feel (current state), what you want to accomplish (future state) while detaching yourself 100% from your comfort zones (previous state).

“…When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."

When implementing dynamism in your life, most of the time you will feel as you don’t know what you are doing. Nevertheless, if you are living a dynamic life you will realize this is a normal feeling because you are constantly leaving your comfort zone. In order to keep advancing in spite of these feelings, it is important to have your clear objective defined and made visible to yourself everyday. There will days when you will wonder why you made the change, and then it is key to remind yourself by looking at your objective and knowing decisions where made as actions to take you to your goal, so keep moving forward focused.

A simpler type of dynamism is on a day-to-day basis, where you should constantly set you team and process to the read team tactics as a realization stage, always questioning if what you are doing is the best way to do it, if you have the right people, if you are learning the proper knowledge, if you customers and employees are happy and satisfied, which will ultimately lead to the reaction stage to make changes. Always focus on your objective and what you want to accomplish in order to survive through the adaptation and execution.
How many radical changes have you implemented in your? what is harder for you to implement between realization and reaction? How often do you leave you comfort zone? How quickly do you adapt? Please share you answer and comments below.