What is your relationship to impossible?
Are you unconsciously accepting your current situation, restricting and deleting thoughts of what could be? Have you created a habit of ending aspirational thinking as soon as it reaches what you judge to be impossible? What aspects of hope and desire have you not visited for a while? Now might be time to visit them again.
As one of my old coaches, Drew Rozell, eloquently stated “You’re here, now, nowhere else. Act like it!” This played out again for me last week as I delivered several speeches. The same may be true for you, rushing from one meeting to the next, and from one gnarly email to the next conversation. Here are a few angles to help inspire your awareness and return to right here, right now.
How often do the conditions in your work seem absolutely perfect, only for things to slip out of control? Sometimes a strong tail wind can be perilous - how can you resist the urge to go head on into danger?
We communicate non-verbally all the time, and not always deliberately or desirably!
When connecting and collaborating with others, most of us are, to some degree, aware of our body language and both consciously and unconsciously pick up on the signals being communicated through the body language of others. The meeting of these two message-communication units (you and them) often dictates the quality of connection and the can predicate the likely success of the outcome.