Change is the essential nature of life, so we encounter it in ourselves, organizations, in communities and nature all around us. Whether slow or strange and unanticipated, life's changes continue to confront us. It's up to us to determine how we make sense of the changing moments and respond productively and creatively—essentially, to make a life that matters.
Throughout 2025, we'll need to become even more highly adaptive people, letting go of our natural resistance and staying open to the New. There's a simple art to this, as we can find in the writings of wise thinkers. As Rick Rubin notes in The Creative Act: "Regardless of whether we're formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience for ourselves and others based on this information set."
In other words, we are each an artist of life, a term first used by Zen pioneer D.T. Suzuki. This essay invites collective wisdom about effective ways we can thrive as artists of life in uncertain times. When your organization is ready to strengthen its innovative fabric and retool its strategy, we can make that happen at Ken Hubbell Consulting. We’re keeping the practice alive!