Roeboater Thoughts

Many obstacles that we face in life are either invisible -or- smaller than we perceive them to be. Something that may have tripped us up in the past does not have to have the same outcome today.  We grow, we overcome, we succeed.   Check out this story below: The Elephant Rope As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not. He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” The man was amazed.

  That attitude we bring to the 'what' of each day, each interaction matters. It matters a lot in fact. It is received by the people in our offices & outside of them when we are making sales calls in person, zoom or even on the phone.  Below is a picture chart that I got off of Tony Robbins website. Let that sink in. I know that when we practice scripting that we really focus on the what we say, but we need to remember the How we say it and How we portray it as well.   These are the components that come together for us as communicators in all facets of our loves, not just in work.  Today as we are communication let's think about what we are saying with the other 55%  and 38% of our communication. That may be the gap in where we are and where we want to be going.  Typing this out today hit me so I'll be digging in here to grow.  Let's grow together team!

What calls for our attention? There are distractions galore in our worlds. It's out charge to fade out the true distractions and hone in on where & what we need to be doing. Many times we 100% know what to do, but we don't want to do it or we don't want to do it for as long as is needed to render the results we really want. The hard part of that is we may be right on the cusp of succeeding when we give up while at other times we really didn't give ourselves a chance to succeed & that could be for a myriad of reasons. We need to remember a couple of important points every day. Some days we sill go faster & further than others. They run together.  Some days we will feel like digging deep & some we won't feel like it. Dig deep anyway.  We need to always be pushing ourselves to move forward. Part of pushing ourselves to move forward is having real conversations with ourselves an an accountability partner on what we are doing, where we are going, struggle