It struck me again this week the double meaning of the word retreat, and perhaps it is not contrasting meanings. To retreat would be to go back, reverse, return. It also refers to an escape, a time away from everyday hustle and bustle to reflect and review.
Just How Good Can Things Be?
My coach, Drew Rozell, challenged me again this week on my expectations and the limits I, often unconsciously, set.
The nature of the results we cause and attract are in extremely close correlation to our expectations. We don’t realise the power we have to change the scale or extent of what we get to enjoy.
Your Expectation Playlist
In a recent coaching call I invited my client to talk to me as if from ‘the end of the week’ looking back.
Immediately she described an expected set of outcomes that she knew, in advance, that she wouldn’t feel great about. Reality was informing her range of results and feelings. But she has a choice. [...]
Expectations
Last year I acquired another business and have spent alot of time with the management team getting the product, the service levels, the processes and the facilities in the right place. We continued to do what we perceived to be ‘the right things’.
Having not seen profit by year end and another loss in January, I [...]
Instant Liberation
A couple of weeks ago I found myself back in overwhelm. I re-read my newsletter from March (Simplify your overwhelm) and the bonus tip I wrote following the ‘Pause’ series of articles (Pause extras 1: Clutter). Of course they helped, but there was more to do this time.