Is this you?
In his latest book, Tribes, Seth Godin talks about the idea that, as humans, we’re tribal - we feel most fulfilled, and create the greatest success with our endeavors, when we get together with other people. But WHO you get together with probably matters just as much. You, like me, have probably had those experiences where you meet someone for the first time, and you feel like you’ve known them forever - because they just “get you,” and you can use all sorts of communication short-cuts, so the progression of the relationship or the project you’re working on together is accelerated dramatically. And I’m sure that you’re also all-too-familiar with the experience of being at a social gathering or in an organization, where you look around you and feel the self-consciousness, anxiety and loneliness of realizing that these are just not “your people.” Have you ever thought about who your “tribe” are? You know, the people who are just like you and struggle with the same stuff you struggle with, and get excited about the same stuff that excites you. I want to make sure that the people I work with get the most change, in the shortest time possible, and enjoy the process, so I’ve created my programs with my tribe’s specific characteristics, goals and needs in mind.
The Tribe
People in the mine your resources tribe - the people who’ll be right at home working with me, and most able to leverage the specific tools and methods I offer, to get great results right from the start, have most of the following characteristics:
- You’re a competent professional who is already quite successful, and your intelligence and analytical thinking skills have been a part of your success strategy so far.
- You work in a fast-paced, high-information, high-change environment.
- You see yourself as self-employed… even if you’re employed. You stay abreast of opportunities to develop yourself inside and outside of the organisation you work for, and you drive your own development.
- Your work is core to who you are - you see it as an expression of yourself and your life purpose. So you want to make sure that the work you do is meaningful.
- You’re an evolutionary - you love learning and you believe you can always have, do and be more.
- You’re a Renaissance Soul and contrarian. Your aspirations don’t fit neatly into the little boxes society has given us so, to create the life you want, you have to break the “rules.”
If this is you, then you’ve probably struggled with some of the following:
- You love to get stuff done, achieve and please people. But you’ve been so busy doing what you “should” do that you’re not even sure what you “want” to do anymore. And “fun”… what’s that again?
- It’s hard to keep confident of your skills and knowledge when you’re in an industry that’s so fast-paced that they can quickly become outdated. And dealing with relentless change and uncertainty in your work is stressful.
- You want different results, but the actual change process is scary and difficult and you feel like there’s a part of you that’s afraid and resisting and sabotaging your change efforts.
- You’re carrying a lot of responsibility and pressure from the many demands being made on you and, despite appearing to be in control, you worry a lot about letting other people down, you feel stressed and anxious a lot of the time and you’re noticing that this is negatively affecting the quality of your relationships and health.
- You sometimes get so anxious or stressed that you feel disconnected from your resourcefulness, and then the quality of your thinking suffers. This is a problem because your success at work is very dependent on the quality of your thinking.
- You’re globally-connected, multi-talented and aware that there are endless really great opportunities available to you. But having so many choices has left you struggling to decide what you really want in life and perpetually dissatisfied with what you have.
- Because you have so much on your plate, and because your work is really important to you, you find it hard to switch off, relax, unwind and be fully present outside of work.
- You’re very busy and productive, but you feel caught up in living reactively, responding to demands being made of you. Conversely, when it comes to doing what’s important to you but not being demanded of you, you struggle with motivating yourself and end up procrastinating when you do have the time to pro-actively pursue what you really want.
- You have big ideas and high standards, and fear and perfectionism tends to get in the way, paralyze you and prevent you from making your big dreams a reality.
- Fear, perfectionism, over-planning and over-preparing have helped you get a lot of success in your life so far, but you’re now in the place where you’re really wanting to find a less controlling and more balanced and enjoyable process of getting your results. You want to stop striving and start thriving.
- You’re relatively successful in your work, but there’s an underlying, nagging sensation that you’re not living your “right life.” You’re feeling hemmed in and constricted and you want to make some changes that’ll make your work- and life-style more significant, meaningful and aligned with what’s really important to you.
- At the end of the day, you just want to feel more open, free and expansive in your life.
Is this you? Then stick around…
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