![]() When you watch movies or TV shows with strong female leads, do you find yourself wishing you were like them? How about Captain Sharon Raydor on Major Crimes? Unflappable, calm, and quite certain of what she knows and how she damn well feels about it, tooreal I find myself aspiring to some of her balanced behaviors. Why should you hold yourself back from being boldly who you are? Because you are afraid of what "they" will think of you? Because you feel awkward walking outside of those well-known comfort zones of yours? These cease to be "good enough" reasons to hold back once you realize the cost to you of being anything but bold! When you aren't bold, you don't ask for or get what you really want - at work, in life, you just don't get what you want! When you aren't bold, you don't ask yourself what it is that you want to do next...or what you want to stop settling for...or what behavior you are determined to undertake! When you aren't bold, risk goes away. GOOD risk. The kind of risk that allows you to reach for stars, or go for a big dream at least once. The price of admission to this game is that you be okay with being uncomfortable. Because this thing of being your true self requires that you walk through the growth process, and that growth is always through a new land that you have not experienced being in before.
It's okay. There is no real danger in this new land. But you are going to have to either convince yourself of that and just go for the new behavior or the new direction or the new decision - or get help from someone like me to help you experience just how much more you are than what you have grown accustomed to seeing. This is why taking an acting or improv class is so priceless! When you realize that who and what you can be is literally limitless, and one helluva lot more fun, then being bold becomes the one thing you know you HAVE to do. And that's when your life...becomes truly your own.
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AuthorLori Kirstein believes in following and creating only those rules that t support your best self in work and in life. Communication done with awareness and skill is not only possible, it is life and career-changing. Communication is just a different kind of learning. And it is one that brings incredible rewards and joy in all aspects of our lives. Archives
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