My life purpose is to help you harness and control the power you have within, to Live and Lead a Life of and on Purpose ✔️ Together with this, I help high performing & high functioning Business owners, Leaders and Entrepreneurs create psychologically safe environments in their work spaces; ✔️ Resulting in increased Performance, Impact and ROI for all those they lead, serve and look after ✔️ The journey is to get them on track to outwardly Living, Leading and Running their Businesses from a more meaningful and purposeful space ✔️ This is the work of Visionary Leaders - WELCOME! 🍀
🟢 What if Procrastination is NOT a Problem?
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Your weekly email with quick, well researched and impactful advice; easily actionable tools and resources; helping you, as a deeply aware and conscious leader, business owner & entrepreneur; outwardly Live, Lead and run your Business from a more meaningful and purposeful space. This is the work of Visionary Leaders. ___________________ Hi ReaderI have always wondered why procrastination is given a bad rep. I get it, we need to get things done, but at what cost? I have offered seen myself procrastinating over a number of things in my life, but to tell you the truth, they still get done and on time. What I have never liked about the way that procrastination has been vilified is that it ignores one's instincts, and it automatically - because of the narratives around procrastination that we have absorbed from media and those around us - makes us feel bad about ourselves. Let me tell you a story on how we can see procrastination as: ✔️ A tool of our instinct that something is misaligned Last weekend, when I was developing one of the worksheets in the Soul to Stage Speaker Transformational Program that I offer, I started feeling deeply uncomfortable in my own skin. So uncomfortable, like I had something crawling deep inside of me, to the point that I did not want to continue with this worksheet. Something had been stirred within me. The worksheet asks the following questions (perhaps you can ask your own self the same questions as you read along): ✔️ Do you remember when your voice was silenced? Now you might ask, what does this have to do with Speaking on Stage - which is the purpose of the program - and it would be a valid question. But the exercises I put in all of my program worksheets, are always structured in a way that opens and works with both your conscious and subconscious mind. Why do I do this? Because there is more to you than you realize. Sometimes the dreams we have are blocked by subconscious programming that we may not be aware of. The more aware we are of them, and with that, the more we can re-arrange them, the better able we are at fully stepping into our dreams. The journey is always about coming back to wholeness from fragmentation. If you have ever worked with me, and or will do so, you will know that we dive deep into your subconscious because it makes 85-95% of your programming, and therefore your behaviors and habits. If we just focus on the conscious part of your brain, which is just 5-15%, then you will get 5-15% of the results that you are wanting in whichever area we are working on. This is not sustainable. There is more to you than meets that eye. Back to the StoryAs I was asking myself the above questions, scenarios from the past that I had pushed down for so long, started coming up from my subconscious. This is what I mean when I say when you are being coached by me, we dive deeper into the subconscious. We stir from within, what has been lying dormant. Why? Because the programming in there, sometimes act as limiting beliefs that hinder us from achieving our dreams and goals in this current stage we are at - even if they are beliefs from incidences that occurred when we were still very young. And on the flip side, we also get to remind ourselves of the strengths we have always had, but we might have forgotten. Initially, as I was feeling this stirring inside of me, I saw myself distracting myself from continuing on with this worksheet. I stood up and did some laundry because I thought perhaps I was tired from working on my computer for so long and needed to focus on something else for a little while. Then I came back and sat down by my computer again, and still, even after one line, I couldn't continue, so I saw myself standing up again. I tidied up a cupboard, cleaned another space, then came back and sat down. I was feeling heavy, uncomfortable in my skin, and so I stood up again. I went to the sink and started cleaning the dishes, and as I stood by the sink, deep emotions of sadness rose up from somewhere deep inside me. I started crying - almost like all this heaviness was finally being given a chance to come up. I had somehow suppressed the feelings, fears and thoughts I had from incidences where my voice was silenced and I couldn't speak up for myself; incidences where I had to make myself small and apologetic so I could fit other people's narratives of they thought I was; incidences where I was afraid to stand up on stage and be seen, because I could not recognize myself any longer. I could not own the stage anymore. It was torture to be up there, because of all the subconscious beliefs I had of myself. This all happened 3 decades ago. Our physical bodies hold on so much to more than we realize. We then move around with this inner programming and this is how we live, lead and look after ourselves and others as we move through our everyday lives. What I had labeled 'procrastination' in this present day, was just my body's response to what the work I was currently doing was triggering me to not only remember those incidences, but to now allow my body to release the related stored up emotions from that time long ago. These are emotions that I did not have the opportunity to safely release. This is the benefit of seeing procrastination as a signal that there are emotions stirred within, that are ready to surface. It is an opportunity to deeply care for oneself and not to feel bad or to curse oneself when you are not managing to complete a task. It is also an opportunity to ask the following questions: ✔️ Is this task important to my life, my leadership, my business? It was such a relief for me once I figured out first of all my why - which meant I didn't quit. And then as soon as I realized that something was stirring inside of me, I took an opportunity to make room for that because I have learnt that this is what growth is all about - releasing what no longer serves me - so I can get to the next level in my life, leadership and business. What making room, looks like for me, is to sit down and allow myself to fully cry. To feel all the emotions - raw as they were. Because at the time when my voice was taken away from me - I did not have the chance to fully express myself and so I pushed down all these emotions. This was and is my way of allowing them to rise up with no shame or guilt. This is what true growth really is. It is about releasing these emotional blocks within us, that become part of our psychology, and thus hinder us from being in touch with who we really are inside. When we are out of touch with part of our inner selves, that is, the truest parts of who we are, growth and transformation is slow, laborious and sometimes unattainable because of these emotional blocks. Working together, you and I go below the surface. This is where: If any of the above resonated with you, let's get in touch. Here are 2 ways I can support you: If would like to take it up a notch, that is: ✔️ You are wanting to reclaim your personal power, Then fill out this form: Conscious Leadership~Lead from Within Mastery program, so we can schedule a call to see if this program suits. In the meantime, Do Use Procrastination as: ✔️ An indicator of growth, That's it for now! I look forward to supporting you through any of the above 3 options. In Purpose, Clarity and Power! Your Coach B 🎩
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Living, Leading & Running Your Business from a more Meaningful & Purposeful Space
My life purpose is to help you harness and control the power you have within, to Live and Lead a Life of and on Purpose ✔️ Together with this, I help high performing & high functioning Business owners, Leaders and Entrepreneurs create psychologically safe environments in their work spaces; ✔️ Resulting in increased Performance, Impact and ROI for all those they lead, serve and look after ✔️ The journey is to get them on track to outwardly Living, Leading and Running their Businesses from a more meaningful and purposeful space ✔️ This is the work of Visionary Leaders - WELCOME! 🍀