Pay it forward with Passion…
Spend just a few minutes to inspire yourself and find out how you, yes you, can change the world in 2013. I promise, you won’t look back…
Spend just a few minutes to inspire yourself and find out how you, yes you, can change the world in 2013. I promise, you won’t look back…
How we love our excuses!
Who me? Not qualified-courageous-influential-able/good-enough!
What if they don’t listen? I don’t have the authority-articulateness-presence-respect.
Can’t you find some-one else? I’m too quiet-loud-shy-fierce-strong-weak.
I entered a competition for big big prizes. Only I bombed… didn’t even make the top ten!
Did I feel sore! But I recognized those feelings from early painful childhood experiences around ‘competition’. For the first time in more decades than I want to own up to, I’d felt competitive about this event. And, whaddayerknow… history repeated itself!
I explored how come I didn’t make it. And critiquing what I delivered compared with the top 10 gave me loads of learning learning learning.
I realised I’d been trying to play somebody else’s game… an Alpha Male one actually… rather than my own. That hit with a gut wrenching thud. I’d been stuck in ‘Good girl’, a part of my personality which tries to please. No wonder I’d felt out of sorts and disconnected from myself for days. Read more…
I’m coming to the end of a 7 month business course which has been get-your-butt -into-gear from the off. My training group had a prep session last Friday for our ‘graduation’ day. No mortar boards, gowns or diplomas. Just pitch your business to a panel of such high profile people you could get vertigo without much effort.
Back at the prep session, the trainer asked who’d like to present and practise their pitch in front of the whole group… like now! I promise you, my hand went up so fast and furiously, I almost tore my arm out of its socket.
So, guess who got prime position? A definite yeehaaaa! But I was so disappointed. In a mixed gender group, I was the only lonely woman who went for it. Read more…
Logical mind loves goals and outcomes… gimme gimme gimme structure with a capital S. It’s never happier than when it’s got a ‘to do’ list in its hand.
It’s an emotional-psychological-evolutionary experience which absolutely defies logic.
If you logically ‘knew’ how to get unstuck you would have done it ages ago. So, don’t waste time with same old same old techniques which are so boringly ineffective. Read more…
Positive thinking, or ‘stinking’, as I sometimes call it, just won’t do any more.
Oh… It’s good enough for making sure your language is framed in the positive. So then your brain gets programmed towards what you want rather than what you don’t want. And it’s good enough for setting goals, even big hairy goals if that’s your thing!
But it’s no good in times of big shifts or, more precisely, pre-big shifts. And, if you’re kidding yourself that the current global economic situation, Arabian Spring, demos in EU countries, fires, floods and earthquakes, are just coincidences… hold onto your hats and let go of your habits! Read more…