If you could just let rip about your life to a complete stranger, what would you say?
Not your whole life, but just the realities of now, of a routine day, with home life, work life, and everything around it.
We tend to be really honest and more vulnerable with strangers because we’re less concerned by their judgement, especially if we know we won’t ever see them again.
I’m wondering what you might notice about yourself as you unfold your reality to this stranger.
Perhaps a rather overwhelming number of competing priorities that has you running around in circles, working long hours, trying to please everyone all of the time, kidding yourself you’re a master at multi-tasking and can get it all done?
Maybe you realise that whoever shouts the loudest gets your attention and, like a puppet on a string, you prioritise what they need, irrespective of whether it’s the most urgent or important thing on your list?
Perhaps it’s an intrusive sense of self-doubt that creates blocks and barriers to your dreams and future possibilities, like glass walls around you: you can see your dreams but just can’t get to them? The barriers then feel too difficult to overcome, and risk sapping the last of your energy, so you park your potential and tell yourself “maybe one day when…”
If the stranger were to ask you “so is this the life you want for yourself or are you longing for something different or new?”, how would you respond?
It takes real courage to acknowledge the widening chasm between your daily reality and your aspirations, and it takes guts to break the cycle, to finally make the big decision to invest in yourself, and to welcome and embrace a larger vision for yourself.
I’m looking to partner with clients who want to create for themselves something extraordinary, that breaks them free from their familiar barriers, and has them flying towards their deeply held aspirations and dreams.
If this is where you think you are now, get in touch.
“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky…” Erin Hanson.
What behaviour choices are you making?
We should first look to ourselves – how WE show up, how people experience US, and what impact WE have on the team.