How DARING can help you transform your business, life and leadership
Dr Jo Cresswell - Research and Innovation Consultant
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In which I DARE you to create a powerful difference in your business, life and leadership, show you the secrets of DARING, and invite you to create a powerful DIFFERENCE in your world and the world around you!
What if...
There was a powerful state that could help you be bold, adventurous, and a little bit nervy? One that could lift your energy and give you that extra boost of courage, purpose and determination to take big steps outside your comfort zone?
Would you want to know how to harness it?
And what if...
There was a proven roadmap to help you to align with your purpose, take powerful aligned actions (consistently), and propel you into growth... even if you've struggled before?
Would you want to know how to use it?
Now, you've probably guessed by now that I'm talking about DARING - but perhaps not as you know it.
Welcome to a powerful state of BEING
You might recognise the first aspect of DARING - as a powerful state of BEING which inspires and energises you to take bold leaps out of your comfort zone. It empowers you to become your most creative and successful self. It makes ANYTHING feel possible, and what's more it makes change and growth feel FUN.
To be DARING is to be: BOLD, ADVENTUROUS, and a little bit NERVY
The blueprint for your FUTURE
The second aspect of DARING is a powerful roadmap, a blueprint for success. It creates a pathway for you to break out of your comfort zone and revolutionise your business, life and leadership. It gives you a powerful new opportunity to release all the old fears and doubts which have held you back in the past, so you can create the difference in you, your world, and the world around you that you TRULY want.
So why DARING?
Ok, I'm going to come clean here. I really struggle with goals. Or targets. Or really any word you can think of that describes a set destination that I have to work towards. Not enormously helpful in growing a successful business...
In part this comes from nearly 2 decades of being ruled by targets in my leadership career - most of which I had no control over. But I suspect the resistance is more down to my inner creative, rebellious side. The one that just wants to do the total opposite of what it's been told to do, because everything else just feels more fun. Every boss and teacher I've ever had is probably nodding their heads in recognition right about now..
One day, when I was pondering the conflict between my aims for my business and my absolute refusal to take action on goals, an idea popped into my head. "What if I call them DARES?" I asked myself. And that was it... Suddenly my inner rebel got excited - because DARES sounded mischievous and subversive. In other words, something it could get on board with!
The power of DARING
Take a moment to reflect... Does this sound all too familiar to you?
You're living happily in your comfort zone when suddenly, BOOM! inspiration strikes. You get a spark of creativity, an idea, a wish, a dream. You connect with a powerful vision for the future you feel so excited - like anything is possible.
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But... then the fears creep in. You start to feel like something's not quite right. You experience feelings of trepidation, even dread. Welcome to the FEAR zone. Your host is your subconscious mind, which has set off the alarms at the mere thought of you creating change.
So it throws doubts, self-sabotage, procrastination, and drama in your way. It dredges up all those old beliefs that you can't, that you're not good enough. Oh and if that isn't enough, your subconscious triggers unbearable discomfort until you find yourself regretting you ever had the idea in the first place, and retreat back to your comfort zone.
The real danger is that all this happens under the radar of your conscious, thinking brain.
Enter DARING - your route to freedom, and alignment with your WHY, your purpose. The mechanism and mindset that helps makes your vision more important to you than your fears. And the roadmap to overcoming those doubts and bringing that vision into reality, so you can create long-term and lasting growth.
How you harness the power of DARING
While the model is great, in reality I discovered that I and my clients needed something more concrete, more practical to be able to truly create transformation. And this is why I created the DARING Blueprint, a framework to help you create powerful lasting change and growth:
D - The DIFFERENCE
This is the DIFFERENCE you want to create in your business, life, or leadership. The difference you want to create in the world. It is a powerful combination of your purpose and your goals. Even more it is how YOU need to THINK, ACT, and BE different to truly make your vision a reality.
A - ACCOUNTABILTY
Without consistent action, your purpose will remain a dream. With accountability to create the knowledge, actions and mindset for success, you can overcome your fears and doubts, and create anything you want.
R - REINVENTION
Step into a place of wonder, creativity and innovation. A space where anything is possible, where you can come up new ideas and options which will take you to the next level. This is a place to have fun, to explore a whole new future.
I - IMPLEMENTATION
This is it - this is the good stuff where you turn your dreams into reality. Where you choose the ONE THING from all your options - the thing that will most move the needle. And then you choose the smallest possible action to take today. And one tomorrow, and the day after that and the day after that. Until you see your vision taking shape.
N - NURTURE
This is where you take care of yourself, where you acclimatise to your new level of growth. This is big, powerful work you are doing, and it is so important to practice self-care, and focus on your wellbeing - not least because that reassures your subconscious mind that all is well, that this change is a good thing.
G - GROWTH
Here you embrace and show gratitude for everything you have now, and celebrate all you are achieving along the way. Because you are creating powerful, lasting growth, that will form the stepping stone to the next next level!
So remember...
Whenever you have an idea, or see an opportunity and the doubts creep in, don't worry. It's because you're a human being. And also because you now have an incredibly powerful set of tools to help you recognise those doubts, and CHOOSE to take action because you know the DIFFERENCE you want to create is more important.
My gift to you
I want to give you every chance to step up to that new level, because the WORLD needs you to be creating and living your purpose. The world needs you to be creating the DIFFERENCE. And so I have created The Entrepreneurs' DARING Guide to NEXT LEVEL Confidence and Business Growth, which I am giving to you, absolutely free. Simply visit: https://jocresswell.newzenler.com/f/daring-roadmap
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1 年Dr Jo Cresswell - The DARING Entrepreneur - your DARING framework is brilliant - and so is your idea to call goals/targets as "dares" - which somehow helps to get past the fears, especially the fear of failing. I love how you are helping people make a difference - their way! ?? ??
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1 年"Daring"... I really like that definition Dr Jo and I agree - I think that to be successful, to be an entrepreneur, to go after your dreams, you do need to be daring!
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1 年I love your focus on daring. ITs so easy to get caught up in the mentality that other people are successful because they naturally ___________ or aren't afraid ____________. The truth is though, no matter who you are you experience fear. Successful people though find a way to work through that fear so that they rather than the fear are in the drivers seat.