TURN THE ELECTRICITY BACK ON
I just got off the phone with, let’s call her, Sally. She is a competent professional who in twenty years has never missed an appointment. She has never missed a deadline either. She is the consummate professional. So you might wonder what’s the problem.
Sally, like many others that I get to meet in the work that I do, wanted to develop a different side of herself. She was ready to break out of her box. She wanted to fully express herself and to be known in other ways, yet that way hadn’t revealed itself as yet. She would begin other projects but rarely follow through because in her mind she felt that these other endeavors weren’t as important as her career. She would say she would do something, but always had a reason why she didn’t complete it. And like many others when it came to exercise, she had the same excuses why she didn’t work out.
I suggested that Sally make a shift in perception by making not keeping agreements to herself just as important as not keeping agreements to someone else. I explained to her that there is a direct correlation between keeping agreements to herself and the source of her personal power. When you are not connected to the source of your personal power, it’s as if you turn on the light switch and nothing happens because the electricity is turned off.
Turn the electricity back on by keeping your word to yourself.
JOURNEY ON
MARK