Out run your roar!
Dr Amanda Foo-Ryland
Keynote Speaker | Corporate Culture Speaker | Leadership and Development Speaker | Speaker in resilience and business wellbeing | #1 International Best Selling Author | Executive Coach
How running to the roar could be your only way to really get what you want in life!
Christmas is fast approaching and for some this can feel overwhelming. Too many tasks, too many people to please and just a feeling of overload. Finding your way through this is possible and its all about adjusting your mind!
This year on a visit to the UK we took our boys to Chester Zoo, we saw tigers, giraffes, lions, elephants, you name it, this zoo had it all. It made me think about how animals behave in their natural habitat. How they get things done!
In the wild, Lionesses hunt in a very clever way, there’s a strategy to their success and it goes a little like this:
One lioness goes to the front of their prey, in this case lets say its a gazelle, this little guy is busy eating away and doesn’t notice the lioness getting in position, then two other lionesses go to the back of the gazelle and spread themselves out, hidden from view.
When everyone is in position the Lion at the front of the gazelle lets out a huge ROAR, the little gazelle goes: Holy moly I need to get out of here and fast he turns and runs as fast as he can. They are pretty speedy these gazelles and, yes, you’ve guessed it, he ran straight into the path of the two waiting behind him. Now if the gazelle had read this article he would have known to run to the roar, skip to the side and out run the single lioness. But he didn’t.
Let’s learn from his mistake!
Whatever is your roar, run to that the first, whatever is taking up your mental energy, making you nervous, maybe even scaring you, then run to that and let me explain why.
If you don’t then you give it power.
For example, let’s say you need to send an email to your boss that could be contentious, the more you think about it the more power you give it and the bigger it gets. Then each time you think about it the task has a louder roar. What you have done is imagined their response, it is not going well and so you put it off, again and again. Now it seems too big and most probably will not get done.
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If you say to yourself, right I am doing this, it will be easier than I ever thought and I may be surprised by their reaction, you take away the roar, you make it into a little kitten purr.
The other great thing about running to your roar is that it saves time, you get the task done and it has been much easier than you thought and now you are like, go me!
Let’s get onto the next thing, you build momentum and confidence.
It’s like that old saying, if you want something doing ask a busy person. They have the bit in their teeth, they have speed and an energy that brings people with them.
Here’s your 3 steps to get what you want done.
1. Ask yourself what is my roar?
2. Do this first, it is that simple.
3. Everything else will be easier after that.
Out run your roar, take it from a pack of three who have a stealth like strategy to have a large dinner and transform it into a kitten’s purr.