Archive for March, 2014
Burn After Reading!
Posted by: | CommentsJealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to Genius – Fulton J. Sheen
Achieve any small measure of success and Jealousy or Envy will rear it’s ugly head around you! This is certain. It is an undeniable marker and milestone of Success!
Nisha (not her actual name to protect her identity) is a client of mine who has achieved phenomenal heights of success once she started getting her head down and going for her dream with every thing she had! This has taken her two years of concerted effort, determination and sheer grit. For someone who had sold out on her dreams because the world had told her she did not deserve it, it was not worth pursuing and that she was not good enough to compete with other big names out there, she has earned her new found success.
However, she stopped right in her tracks when she began to face the fire of jealousy and envy that was being hurled at her. She got flak even from her own family members and her children turned on her accusing her of self centred motivation and neglect. Her mother and sister accused her of being too big for her boots and she started crumbling. She came to me in tears for her coaching and mastermind session and it was all we could do to keep her fixed on the goal of her Dream. Read More→
The Fine Art of Showing up!
Posted by: | CommentsEighty percent of Success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Some think that Showing up is showing off. It is NOT. There is a BIG difference. I am giving you fair warning. This might be a slightly deeper topic than you may expect to read. I have been giving it a lot of thought and reflection.
A friend of mine, (let’s call her Moira) who is brilliant at what she does and could inspire many just by her example, hesitates to do so. She says she is afraid of sharing her success with others for fear that she may be viewed as a Show off. Some people may very well come to that conclusion but that might be because of a lack of discernment.
There is however a big difference between showing off and Showing up.
On the one hand lets consider the Show Off. He never engages the community at large in a helpful way and only shows up to show off.
