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Overcoming Obstacles to Success
What obstacles do you face in the pursuit of success?
Andy Gibney made it to Silver Medallist in the World Championship Stick Fighting competition. He was already British Champion and fully expected to become World Champion.
Undeterred, he entered the competition the following year and ended up as….. Silver Medallist again.
The experience of ‘not quite making it’ is one that resonates with many people, especially those who start their own businesses.
What is interesting is what we choose to do about it.
Do we settle for less or do we explore other ways to get what we really want?
Do we stick with what is comfortable or push ourselves into those places where we’re not quite sure what might happen?
Andy chose to explore what was going on in his own head and this led him down a completely different path. He explored the Nonviolent Communication methods of Dr Marshall Rosenberg and trained with Dr Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna in NLP and hypnosis. He has since trained 8 world Champions, 5 European Champions and countless British and regional Champions.
One of Andy’s physical demonstrations showed quite clearly that when we focus on a problem (a weakness) rather than on a solution we can expect a very different result.
We all saw the change in Andy’s demeanour and his body when he changed his thinking and the result that this produced was astonishing. He repeated this display with randomly selected partners to combat the cynicism that this kind of display usually produces.
Moving away from the physical manifestations, Andy did the following exercise:
Choose which of these is most important to you:
Health
Freedom
Security
Success
Comfort
Adventure
Contribution
Loyalty
Knowledge
Intimacy
Honesty
Power
Love
Passion
When you have done that, go back through the list and choose the second most important and then the third – make sure you write them down.
Now look at this list and choose which one you take care to avoid experiencing at all costs:
Frustration
Depression
Humiliation
Rejection
Guilt
Failure
Loneliness
Anger
As before, go back through the list and choose the second and the third emotions that you would take care to avoid experiencing.
Now compare your lists.
If there is a conflict in the things you seek and the things you try to avoid you will experience difficulties in achieving what you say or believe you want.
Resolving these conflicts and understanding what you REALLY want is the key to success (whatever that means to you).
Andy Gibney has been described as “the Derren Brown of the business scene”, “the Gordon Ramsey of kick boxing” and “the Gene Hunt of therapy” Find him at http://www.nobrain-nogain.com
Photos from the event are here
Video clip of Andy stick fighting is here
We continue our “Steps to Success” programme on 20th January when we explore “Power, the essential ingredient in success and how it can be used to harmonise.” http://theinspiredgroup.com/inspired-events/
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Putting Desire into Action
Here are the pictures from the event
According to Napoleon Hill ‘Desire is the starting point of all achievement’. Bob Garbett takes it one step further and says ‘Desire is nothing without passion’.
Passion was in evidence in every word of Bob’s presentation as he explained how his military training is easily translated into taking action to get a business idea working.
His main points are:
*If you aren’t passionate about what you’re doing – do something else. He describes passion as a crazy mad emotion that you absolutely have to satisfy, not a rational reasoned argument for doing something.
*Aim for complete success – why would you settle for anything less?
*Don’t do it for the money.
*Don’t listen to reason, just the facts. There will always be people who tell you it can’t be done and why – you may even tell yourself this but if the facts add up and you’re passionate enough you’ll make it happen.
*Make decisions not deliberations. Don’t spend so much time weighing up the pros and cons that you drive yourself mad. Just get on with it.
*Never give up. You may need to find a way around obstacles or take a different route but keep going until you get there.
*Think fast and move fast. Don’t look back in ten years time and wonder why you didn’t get anywhere.
*Manage the risk. What will you need or risk in terms of money/ getting the right team/ the right environment?
*Just do it. We regret the things we didn’t do more than the things we do.
*Follow through. It will get rough, you will get criticism, you will fail occasionally, but if you follow through you cannot FAIL.
Inspired events are very different and very special – join us at the next one on November 18th when Andy Gibney will be talking about“How to Master Procrastination and Overcome Obstacles”
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