What if our life was our hobby?
What if our entire life was our favourite hobby?
Seriously.
And what if we learned to feel great (again)…just because... it's natural?
What if we didn't become anxious or stressed?
Or didn’t delegate our stress?
To colleagues, team, clients, family, our body, the doctor, etc?
About Money
What if making or having money wasn’t to be our focus?
What if how much (or little) of it we earn, enjoy and have is the outcome of what and where we're internally focused from?
And that our experience of money is relative to this?
Which it is anyway.
What if 'work' was doing only what we love helping others?
And work and play were indistinguishable and not separated?
What if we were free to choose where to be and what to do today, tomorrow or for the next month or year?
Free from concerns about time or money or a Need or Must To Do list?
What if we weren't in a hurry to get through this article so we could get on with other things?
Or just not in a hurry full stop?
No Competition but Self.
What if we dropped the idea of competition in business?
And switched to how to be of greater service?
Not just to help others solve problems and find solutions.
But also to enhance what’s already great.
What if we recognised we're only ever in competition with our own assumptions?
Data Driven Sameness.
What if we saw data for what it really is?
A record of assumptions, beliefs and feelings at certain points in time.
Which determined decisions, actions and behaviours for which we now have 'data'.
What if we stopped being influenced by data (outcomes) in favour of simply focusing on what actually drives the data?
This being our assumptions and feelings stemming from our mental states.... which, ironically, are all too often driven by data and circumstances!
Meaning we're using history to decide and determine our future...
Reacting to our own creation... (reacting and creating = same letters re-arranged).
Instead of being led by the vision of and in our heart.
Meaning we create a circular economy in our experience which we may not want.
Sales or P&L
What if we saw our sales or p&l as the record of our assumptions, beliefs and feelings?
And used this 'data' to become more conscious and aware of self.
Conscious that our p&l is literally our mindset in black and white.
And not a reflection of our desires, strategy, capability or efforts.
What if we were no longer subtly or less subtly motivated by worry or fear or what we believe we should or must or need to do?
Or by what others are doing?
Or what others might think of us?
What if we were led by the vision in our heart?
By what we love and not what we're fearful of or believe is realistic or sensible?
What if we were led (once again) by the wisdom of our intuition and not the limitations of the rear-facing, data-driven intellect?
Can you imagine?
AND WHAT IF THIS?
What if children never ever forgot how amazing and incredible they are?
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What if they didn’t learn stories of lack or limitation?
What if they continued to be led in life by their innate wisdom, curiosity, intelligence, optimism, supreme confidence and fearlessness?
That they’re ALL born with.
That WE are ALL born with.?
But which many of us learn to cover and hide. Mostly from ourselves.
What if more schools 'drew out potential and individuality' instead of putting information, beliefs, uniformity and conformity in?
What if schools taught the mental science behind money?
And how to live a life of fulfilment and freedom?
Led by being true to self and doing what you love.
So life could be a joyous, meaningful, heart-led, fulfilling, rewarding and abundant adventure?
Like the one we once imagined it would be.
Can you re-imagine that?
Delusional?
But is this delusional, impossible, unrealistic?
A few years ago I’d definitely have said so.
I'd have stood and argued for my limitations and beliefs.
Because, despite years of running my businesses and years investing in personal development and mindset and trying to be good enough...
I didn't understand.
Until meeting a mentor who really helped me open my inner eyes.
To see through my own BS and to see we are never ever stuck - even if we believe we are.
And to see we are only ever limited by our own stories and assumptions.
Which we're always free to choose.
He helped me see that what I believed to be true was almost entirely based on second-hand beliefs I’d unwittingly adopted as my own.
And had then unconsciously projected out into my world.
Only to have them reflected back at me.
Which re-enforced my belief in them.
Which was often painful.
I didn't understand the degree to which we really do experience the world not as it is but as we consciously or unconsciously assume it to be and as we consciously or unconsciously assume we are.
Only then did I begin to surrender to the truth about life and who I Am.
Only then did I surrender to being led by my ideal and what I'd love..... instead of what I believed to be possible or achievable.
What followed was freedom, fulfilment, happiness, abundance and doing what I love every day.
What followed was freedom from the bull-shit beliefs that we have to make sacrifices and work hard to have what we want.
Because the truth is we can have whatever we desire.
Our desires exist for us to choose and accept. They're not their as instruments of torture.
Life really is a game of AND, not OR.
And, as adults, our purpose is to 're-member' our self with who we are and with the rules of the game and how it's designed to be played.
To re-member self with what we intuitively knew as infants.
Because only then are we free from the beliefs we've unwittingly been adult-erated with and then continued to feed.
When we re-member the rules, we KNOW struggle, striving and sacrifice are not required...
And that freedom, fulfilment, abundance and realising our boldest vision requires only a shift in Mind to align with it.
Because fulfilment isn't 'out there', it's only within and our world mirrors and reflects what we're living in fulfilment of.
Whether this is not enough money or time or clients or growth or whether it's an abundance of it is ultimately our choice.
Would you like to learn about having a great deal more of what you love (without a whiff of being pitched to?)
Then I invite you to join me for an hour next Wednesday 30th August 2023 at 3PM.
I promise you'll love it. Link to register here or below
** A recording will be available for those registered in advance**.
Consulting, facilitation, executive coaching, and group coaching: focused on transforming leadership and conflict. Associate Fellow at University of Oxford Sa?d Business School. CEO at Transformational Ltd.
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