The below video clip was shot a couple of years ago. The relevance continues, especially in these upside-down times we find ourselves in. We're in a place where recognizing talent is essential. And by the way, it starts with your soul and the art of searching people.
I could write further on this, but check-out the video clip for more.
Last week I had the honor and privilege to take a group of people through the Take Time for Your Life 30 Day Breakthrough Plan. We held the workshop part of the experience at a place called Sparkspace, which I highly recommend in a multitude of ways. The second part of the experience for each person who attended is happening now and onto the achieving of a small goal in the next 30 days.
Without a doubt, I was inspired by the attendees last week. But I've embarked on a 30 day breakthrough plan myself. Somehow this makes the process much richer for me. It moves me as a learner and as a facilitator.
I understand you might not be able to fully grasp what our 30 Day experience looks like if you haven't gone through the program, so see our page on Total Life Management to gain more understanding and learn what others experienced as well.
Now for the vulnerability part:
I have set a 30 day goal is to improve my approach and presentation with prospective clients of Epic Living. I will do this by engaging them with my heart first and my head second. I will measure this by having a trusted advisor/coach attend 2 business engagements with me to observe my presentations. I will also provide examples of heart approaches versus head approaches for that advisor/coach. Doing this will help me achieve my big goal of improving Epic Living's (Me) mission performance in the next 90-180 days.
The importance of me sharing this subject with you is to help me (hopefully you too) find a breakthrough. If you're a subscriber reading this, a person who has attended an event where I was the speaker, a participant in a workshop I facilitated or some other connection, you know my sincerity and heart delivery. My block has been with those who are not currently engaged with me. In those settings I have, mistakenly, led with my head. Translated, I've used old approaches designed to induce credibility and a corporatey persona. In the spirit of giving me a greater chance to speak from the heart. As you can imagine, that way of doing things feels awkward, canned and like I'm wearing another man's coat.
So why did I choose this approach? Fear. Fear of not making the connection, mostly. I won't drone on here because I now proceed to courage and doing someithing about the block. In many ways this is a breakthrough unto itself.
In my post last week on the new net-worth, I challenged you to look at net-worth in a different way. I even went as far as to say your life depends on it (in so many ways).
An important thing to keep in-mind is the currency each of us is given in the following 8 areas. Call it life currency:
The currency is with you all of the time, if you haven't declared bankruptcy in any of the areas yet. The irony is you can invest this currency in any way you like. You can be foolish or wise, greedy or giving the choice is yours.
So what if you you awoke tomorrow and no one was interested in your career currency or your money currency? How would your fair? Could you find any currency in your family account or your physical account?
My words could fly in the face of what you hold dear (like your career or social). And in many facets, you won't get any encouragement from your investment house (as in the money variety) or family. You might get objections like "what about your retirement" or "how are you going to support your wife and kids?" Hopefully, you noticed that I've never advocated you ignore those. I am asking you to do just the opposite.
Pay close attention to each of the 8 areas.
The idea here is to adopt integration-every day. Starting small and moving to the big and great.