Productivity: I am so much more productive when have so too much shit to do (yeah, get over it, I said the S word! If you are offended, just go check this out instead…giggles)! Are you like this? When I have very little to do, I cannot get going. I don’t do productive things like write every day. Yes writing is very productive, have you done my 30 day writing challenge yet? When I write, my blog gets posted. When I write new cool things go out to my newsletter list. When I write I create new programs.
When I am busy, the Warrior is ALIVE. Remember a Warrior chooses their missions and fates. So your warrior is alive when you have so much shit to do that YOU CHOOSE to do. Oh yeah, that is YUMMY as my friend Tambra Harck is famous for saying. ( Just had a moment of silence, as I embrace this realization even for myself.) Crazy part? When I have so much to do that I CHOOSE, the stuff I don’t isn’t so bad either. Sometimes even that stuff is completely off the table!!
The hard part for many is getting to a place where you CHOOSE, even as a leader, mother or business owner. To CHOOSE means your productivity goes up. Think about it. Ever get up and think to yourself: “oh geez, I have so much to do today, I will never get it all done.” How’s your productivity that day? Miserable? Exhausting? Draining? Frustrating? Thinking about what you do every day as a choice, versus a have to, or something that just kills the time. Could you feel differently if you said “I CHOOSE” instead of “I have to”?
Would your productivity increase if you did? Guess you will never know if you just thought “no”.
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Accept versus Understand is a powerful lesson in becoming your most influential bad ass-ery, warrior-preneur self. Years ago when I first met my husband he would frequently say: “women always need proof, and sometimes they just need to accept that it is what it is.” I always rolled my eyes and thought: “whatever babe, sure whatever you say, your right, love you…” you know how you make your husband feel happy!
Over the years this though has become a profound and important lesson in order for me to have peace and success in my life. The fact of the matter is we cannot always understand everything that happens around us, to us, even through us. And when we try so hard to understand it; to pick it apart if you will, whatever it may be that we do not understand: the words, the conversation, the emotion, the interpretation and attempt come to a thorough and complete understanding we end up more frustrated and alone. We end up fighting, with ourselves and others, because we are looking for proof to better understand.
See reality is this:
“We cannot understand everything. Sometimes it is not meant to be understood, but just to be accepted.”
Imagine just being able to accept that that’s how someone you care about feels right now, versus being determined to understand why they feel that way. Imagine trying to just accept that this is the process you need to go through with your coach right now versus trying to understand why it is they want you to do what they’re asking you to do right now. Sometimes it is not meant to be understood it is just meant to be accepted.
Imagine how much more at peace you will feel if you stop pushing against, fighting against, willing your determination to understand why, and just call to you the acceptance of this is how it is right now. Could you let go and accept?
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Accept versus understand. A powerful lesson in the struggle we have to live our biggest bestest lives. Have you learned this lesson?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Do you ever feel like some days start out with everyone letting you know what you do wrong? Typo here, bad link, author box broken, and so on and so on. Perfection, it is my biggest challenge. It makes me sad that people want perfect. I haven’t met perfect yet.
I often just wanna say:
Perfection: It’s expected huh?
I appreciate people telling me, when my perfection is lacking because I know how far from perfect I am, but man, some days, I hit the “you f-ed up Ann” jackpot! Saying thank you with grace is the challenge isn’t it? Ok, maybe saying thank you without sounding like you are making an excuse is the bigger challenge! Harder yet, is when you try and say thank you, fix it and they have written you off because you were not perfect the first time.
Breathe.
Did that help?
Some. Maybe we could all learn to love the imperfection of who we are. Man, that would be awesome sauce. Maybe we can love excellence instead of perfection. Hmmmm…that might be how I need to take all this feedback. I am striving for excellence, so thank you! It is a mental mind shift isn’t it?
How do you stay, happy, motivated and influential when everything coming at you says you lack perfection?
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
Me in April 2012, and me in Sept 2012 still 10 pounds shy of goal.
My weight loss journey over the last two years (stared in November 2010) has been an amazing influential journey. I am in, and have been for about 4 months now, in the “last ten pounds” phase. Holy cow, this has been so hard! Down, and up, up and down, not yet even under five!
Then, I thought about running my business and how similar the journey is. When I started in 1997, the beginning was easy, I had some immediate business, I felt successful. Weight loss is the same way. In the first few weeks you loose several pounds. Then like my business, I moved into the “steady as I go phase,” making small movement towards my goal.
Last year loosing the weight I even went through a phase where I gained. I saw this in my business in 2007 as the economy tanked. I had to rethink what and how I am doing what I do to be influential. I realize that sometimes a ROUTINE is the worst thing towards achieving success!
These last ten pounds? This is the “have to stick to it phase.” This I think, for most entrepreneurs is the hardest phase of business. It is the time when you have to really focus. The time when you really have to know and believe in your influential self. It is easy right now to change course, or settle in, saying your close enough. It is a time when many give up, because you aren’t quite reaching your goal.
Weight loss and business. Interesting how achieving your most influential self is the same no matter which core influencer you are working on.
I actually wrote this in November 2012, and NEVER posted it, but I still think it is relevant. And FYI, because HEALTH is one of the 6 CORE Influencers to your authentic calling, I have exceeded my goal weight, and optimal health 🙂
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
I’d had an epiphany recently as a coach about my coaching programs. Might be simple to most, but for me it was a big ah-ha.
See, there are three kinds of people out there:
Those self disciplined enough to do the work and actually finish it. These people learn it, run with it and make it happen. They are great in high level coaching or training programs, because they will, after the session, get it done (whatever get is done is).
Those that need the accountability to get the work done, then you do it. These are people who need the “swift kick” if you will! They need a coach that will hold them accountable to the work. they are great when they cannot “do the next thing” unless they get the first thing done.
Those that need someone to walk them through it, do it with them. They need hand holding, they need a guide and teacher with them, showing them until it is complete. They are best in a structured environment with a coach that works with them to get it done.
I love the word awesome; we should bring back awesome. I always have. Ok, yes it started in the 1980’s when awesome was, well, awesome! I remember going to the Puyallup fair and getting this spray paint art that said “awesome Ann” and hung it in my bedroom.
Let’s bring awesome back. We all deserve awesome. Awesome is inspiring. Awesome is fun. Awesome is being a great you, every day.
Awesome is doing you. Awesome let’s others be them. Do you want to bring back awesome with me?
Thank you Tanya Boggs for the great picture!
Ann M. Evanston is a “Chief Breakthrough Officer” teaching other Business Warriors how to slow down, and find the most unique part of their business that makes them stand out among the crowd. She has been named one of the top marketing consultants by About.com, is a guest blogger for Showcasing Women and takes pride in moving you from “blah, blah, blah” to “BOOM, BOOM. BOOM!”
