The Mirage of Control
- executive641
- Oct 20
- 1 min read
The Mirage of Control
I was hiking in the mountains a while back, watching a hawk glide on the wind. With zero effort. No fight. Just flow and in flow.
And I thought, how much time do we spend trying to control what was never ours to begin with?
Control used to feel safe to me. Predictable and kept me away from feeling vulnerable. It gave me the illusion that I was protecting something important. My business, a plan, even the people I love. But the harder and tighter I tried to hold things together, the more they slipped through my fingers.
In leadership, control can often look like discipline, but underneath it’s almost always fear. Fear of things falling apart, fear of failure, fear of not being enough. And when control becomes our main strategy, creativity disappears.
That hawk reminded me that wisdom isn’t about tightening our grip. No, it’s all about trusting the wind. True control isn’t about force; it is power in alignment.
Many Blessings.
Johan Slabbert
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