Permission to Pivot: The Power of Self-Awareness

By Kierra Asnauskas

In Permission to Pivot, an audio course from Scribd Coach, Miss Unconventional founder and lifestyle design strategist Kierra Asnauskas explores the notion of pivoting — the act of changing direction based on your knowledge of who you are, what you need, and what your potential impact is. Placing self-awareness at the heart of the course, Asnauskas discusses how you can find success in your pivoting journey, avoid traps, and make the most of course adjustments in your career and life. In the course, Asnauskas explains the relationship between self-awareness and successful pivots; the many forms a pivot can take and what to consider when deciding whether to make one; her 5-step pivot protocol to follow through on your decision to pivot; and more. She also shares exercises along the way to help put what you’ve learned into practice right away.

Written in lively language and overflowing with fresh, practical advice, Permission to Pivot is an essential guide to navigating the changes we find ourselves needing to make in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Dec 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094447469

Kierra Asnauskas

Kierra Asnauskas is the founder of Miss Unconventional, LLC — an avant-garde personal and professional development company designed to help you design a life and career in alignment with your personality, passions, and purpose — as well as a productivity and lifestyle design strategist. She has been featured in many podcasts and published books. To learn more about Kierra and her work, visit MissUnconventional.com.

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Permission To Pivot

PERMISSION TO PIVOT

The Power of Self-Awareness

KIERRA ASNAUSKAS

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2023 by Kierra Asnauskas

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ISBN: 9781094447469

First e-book edition: January 2023

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Kierra Asnauskas and this is Permission To Pivot: The Power of Self-Awareness a course from Scribd. Thank you for joining me.

What does the word pivot mean to you? Is it a word that applies or should apply to your life? Of course, it’s a word that many of us are familiar with, but chances are: it’s not a word that plays a very big part in your vocabulary, right? And that's understandable. In fact, it’s probably the case for most people.

And yet, in my line of work, so many people would describe their situations to me and, as it turns out, a pivot is exactly what they needed in their lives.

Recently, it’s become more and more prevalent for people to talk about pivoting in terms of business and careers. This is great; or, at least, it’s a great start. But the deeper we look, the more likely we are to find that it isn't just in business or our careers that we may be in need of a pivot. When you pivot, you're basically changing direction based on your knowledge of who you are, what you need, and what your potential impact is. I have it on good authority that, for a vast majority of us, if we got to know ourselves a little better, we’d probably find that we need a pivot of some kind.

This points to something that is at the heart of a meaningful pivot and, therefore, at the heart of this course: self-awareness. You cannot make a successful pivot in your life or in your career without first understanding where it is you belong and why whatever you’re doing now isn’t working. For that reason, before we get down in the weeds on pivoting, it's important to address this issue of self-awareness. Because, without it, you will fall into needless traps on your pivoting journey.

Have you ever met someone who, for the life of them, couldn't read a room? I mean someone who's extraordinarily oblivious in ways that are noticeable to seemingly everyone else? Or, perhaps, if we’re being honest, maybe you have been that person. There’s no shame in admitting it. After all: admitting it to yourself is the first and most important act of self-awareness there is.

The truth is: we've all been that person. I’m sure there are many times when we've been the most obnoxious person in the room, but we were simply unable to realize it. That's because we lacked self-awareness.

Sadly, self-awareness is a topic that hardly gets the attention it deserves. It isn’t taught in schools, and it’s even excluded from all kinds of self-help programs. And the reason is simple;