The Positive Energy Workplace

I get to have juicy conversations just about every day of my life. My work depends on it. My inner impact goddess thrives on it. My clients create change by it. In fact, I'm finding that one of my metrics for meaning, joy, and how much impact I create, is in the amount of conversations I have that 1) feed my soul, 2) make me think, 3) contribute to another human being, 4) help move something forward, and 5) create a bigger conversation that ripples positively.

I can't tell you how many conversations a day I have with people where they've missed their "intended impact" in a conversation, on a project, in communicating with their team, or with their partner. Nor could I tell you how many conversations I have with people who are feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, desiring more balance, desiring more, dissatisfied with...something. And, though it's slightly easier to quantify, I can't tell you how many conversations I have with people who want more; who want to do more; want to do it better; want to create greater impact; and who want to influence others more effectively.

I was meeting with a prospective client yesterday who at the end of our call said that if they could integrate just a couple of the things we discussed, into their personal lives and their team dynamics, life might be easier. "Maybe it doesn't have to be this hard." This, of course, kind of delighted me. So I said, "Great. Go implement."

I've had conversations like this before. And this usually comes up somewhere in them: What might get in the way of implementing? "Forgetting. Getting busy. This stuff is hard. Others."

So I offer this, as I offer it to you. It doesn't have to be hard. You're going to learn a ton in your life. You're going to see a bunch of things you want to do better; behaviors you want to adopt; skills you want to master; things you want to create; things you want others to do. Not everyone is going to want to play. (It's not about them anyway. You start.) Cool. So get started, and stay present - no matter where you are.

One personal default (or team default - this tends to be universal) is often to be overwhelmed by how much you might want to do, how hard it might be to do it, the challenge of just getting it started. And in the end, to sometimes just to do nothing at all. It doesn't have to be this way, but somehow we go there.

The secret to movement and shifting behavior? Presence. Appreciation. One step at a time. Big or little.

The "truth" can be a slippery slope.

Random post about a lot of something and some of nothing. Random things that come up in the state of this thing we called being human. Common themes (with simple flips) that come up as the root of some of the most complex of problems for clients and their organizations. Try these on, which one's resonate? Which one's serve you? Which one's point to "No, not that, geeesh...but ah, Yes! definitely...that!"