Personal and Leadership Development

No: 532 - September 1, 2017

	A Quick Tip
	RECHARGE
	Set the alarm on your 'phone for sometime later on today - late morning, early afternoon - for a time when you know you're pretty sure that you're not going to be in the middle of a meeting, presentation or discussion. Pick a random time. When your alarm goes off, close your eyes, take four long deep breaths and, then, another four. Recharge your batteries when you don't need it, so they're fully recharged when the need really arises.

Who would be a hotelier? If I think I encounter normal crazy people, how many more stories must hoteliers have? Recently, I had the privelege to stay in a beautfiul hotel, in a beautiful setting, in Germany's Black Forest. On the couple of mornings I was there, whilst most guests were simply eating breakfast, some were organizing lunch and, by the looks of it, next week's groceries, too! A very well turned out couple had the logistics down to a fine art. He would make one of his numerous round trips ot the buffet, returning with fruit and bread rolls. As he filled his coffee cup with one hand, the other would pass an apple or croissant or whatever, across the table, in an below-the-radar fashion, into a waiting carefully folded napkin which would then disappear into his wife's handback (or, actually, more like a rucksack by the time they were finished). It all looked slick, smooth, well-rehearsed, done with the deft hand movements of a magician. But, if I saw - and it was pretty obvious what was going on - so did the staff. In fact, the hotel staff probably have their very own version of Normal Crazy People over a mid-morning cup of coffee.

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BEING UNREALISTIC

I'm constantly at people to consider what they really, really want, in an ideal world. And I'm constantly confronted by the belief that you simply can't be unrealistic in setting your goals and objectives. "Unrealistic", however, is simply a word used by normal people to let them off the hook - an excuse for not boldly going where they haven't gone before.

I'll admit that there are bounds to "realisticness" - I'm too old to be a tennis star and I was never appropriately built to be a heavyweight boxer. But, physical limitations aside - and there are plenty of people with disabilities who don't even accept those limitations - I can achieve anything to which I set my mind... and so can you.

We - in our personal and business lives - tend to set goals based on our starting position, where we are now. That is like trying to leap from the starting blocks in an athletics event with your shoe laces tied together. The thinking that has got us to where we are - being normal thinking springing from a normal mind - is constraining. The way we see all the normal crazy people around us go about achieving their goals and objectives is constraining. The need - or perceived need - to conform (to societal norms of just what our friends expect of us) is constraining. The apparent limitation on the number of exceptional achievers is constraining. We're boxed in from every angle but, most importantly, we've ourselves boxed in.

So, cast your constraints aside. Imagine - if even for a few moments - that you had no financial constraints or worries, that you could "remake" yourself in your own desired image - consider this question: "In an ideal world, what do I really, really want?" Answers on a postcard!! Posted to yourself!

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