Breaking Barriers, Having Fun, Achieving Success
I went from some of the most beautiful natural environment in the world, to an amazing luxury suite, to a long walk home after dropping my car off to get fixed.
I feel gratitude for each of those, especially the last one.
Learn to appreciate what you have, in your career, in your home business, in your relationships…so that you can succeed everywhere else you’d like!
A couple of days ago I demonstrated Speed and Confidence using my favorite party trick.
No, I don’t juggle at parties. Not usually, anyway.
Totally true. Speed is one way of demonstrating confidence. When you know your stuff so well you can do it as second nature.
But…there’s also slow, and mindful.
And with serenity.
A couple of years ago when I began practicing Tai Chi, it felt right to mash it up with juggling. Two great forms of meditation in motion.
The movements of Tai Chi, unless it’s used as a martial art are usually done slowly.
And juggling in one its pure forms can be done the same way.
When you can relax into the movements of what you do, savor every aspect of it.
No need to impress or convince anyone. Just be present in the moment.
Slowly. And confidently.
And yes, you can carry that over to any part of your life.
If you’re a great singer, or writer, or article marketer.
If you’re a great chef, or a great parent, or employee.
You can do all of these quickly when the situation calls for it.
Or you can stretch out the experience. Relax into it.
Do it confidently.
And in the process, build your confidence to find greatness, ease and flow in other parts of your world.
Slow and confident.
Try it!
YOUR TURN
What are you so good at, you can do it slowly and confidently?
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Tell me the Donna Summer song isn’t on your mind!
Last Saturday I got to spend just under an hour playing on Justin Barclay’s Life On Purpose show on The Blaze Radio Network.
If you don’t Justin, you will.
He’s a “reformed shock jock” who used to do drive time radio in the Detroit media market.
Now he’s taking his skills and talents to our field, and a lot of people are better for it.
CLICK HERE and get in on the fun.
Seriously…he brought some good stuff out of me. You can benefit from it.
And please…get that Donna Summer song out of your head! 😉
In other words, whatever “it” is, you can do it.
I’ve been juggling for about 30 years. Thousands of successes. And millions of failures.
But enough desire, motivation and commitment to keep going…so that I got some pretty good skills (or skillz, as David says).
And there are so many things to continue learning about juggling…if I wanted to. It really is an art form.
So is Tai Chi. I’ve been at that for about two years. And I’m not anywhere in the same time zone of skill in that as I am in juggling.
Doesn’t matter. It’s my meditation. I get better at my own pace. It serves its purpose.
But if I had the urgency – that burning desire – to get better fast…
If there was something driving me forward…
You better believe I’d make it the center of my universe, the way I did with juggling back in 1986.
I’d find someone who could help me get where I wanted to go.
And I’d invest the time, energy, money…whatever it took.
That’s how we take complex things and make the simple.
Desire.
Patience.
Self respect to keep going when we make mistakes and face criticism from others who aren’t living our experience.
And get skillz.
Find what’s important to you.
Do it.
Then be it.
YOUR TURN
What do you know how to do that seems hard to the rest of the world?
What was your reason for learning it? How has your life been affected by knowing how to do it?
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Desire.
Self-Respect.
Dedication.
Commitment.
Willingness To Let Go Of What You Know And Replace It With Something New.
Patience.
Failing Your Way To Success.
Sort of like any other major thing…
Including success in your business or career.