Author: Deneen Kipp

Should you change jobs?  Three signs it’s the right time. 

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Horrible boss.  Toxic culture. Poor compensation.  Lack of meaning.  

These are common reasons we’re dissatisfied with our current roles.  We take these things as “signs” that it’s time to find a new job.  

They’re not.  

Popular culture tells us that if we feel negative and uninspired about our work then we should immediately find someplace else where we can let our passion shine.    

They’re wrong.  At least most of the time anyway. 

Look, we all like to think we’re reasonable people right?  We don’t expect our work life to be rainbows and daisies all of the time.  We anticipate some ups and downs. But how do we know when the downs are really just too much? How do we know when it is actually time to make a change and take our skillset to another role or another organization?  

1. You’ve carefully, purposefully chosen your opinion of your current workplace.   Workplaces and the people in them are completely neutral.  If they were actually “good” or “bad” then 100% of the employee population at any given workplace would agree on whether it was good or bad.  Our thoughts about our workplace have tremendous power over how we show up in them.  It’s ok if your opinion isn’t all positive but it should be intentional.  That “horrendous” boss is often just a human on the planet doing their job the best they know how.  While they may be an extremely ineffective leader, they’re not exactly the bumbling idiot we paint him or her to be at happy hour.   When you can think about your current workplace as a neutral entity and not the source of your dissatisfaction, you are well on your way to being ready for a change.
2. You’re watering the lawn you already have.  We often think that if we jump ship to a new organization then we can finally flourish!  We imagine we won’t feel so stifled. But remember, the grass isn’t greener just because it’s on the other side of the fence.  The grass is greener where you water it. How have you been watering the lawn (job/career) you already have? This part is not just up to the organization.  You’ve got to take initiative here too – ask to be on the big up and coming project, find a professional development opportunity and present a proposal. You may be surprised where the initiative takes you.  I know this can be tough when you are already feeling pretty fed up. But, if you have done Step 1 this won’t be nearly as hard. And, at a minimum, work will be a little more interesting!                    
3. You’ve done your homework.  Before ever looking at the job boards spend some time designing your ideal job.  Get clear on what it is you truly want. Sometimes, when things are challenging at work we’re so focused on finding the escape hatch we don’t pay enough attention to where it will deposit us.    Envision all of the tangibles and intangible qualities you desire. Sure there’s the org structure, possible schedule requirements, and compensation package to consider. How about the culture and values – what would be ideal?  What kind of professional development opportunities does a great workplace offer? What levels of autonomy and support will you have? This will help guide your career no matter whether you decide to stay with your current employer or not.   

Our careers are a big part of life which is why changing them can feel so hard sometimes!  If a change is what you are looking for – either in perspective or your job or both – I can definitely help, just click here to get on my calendar!      

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We have a problem, so we seek a solution – a book, a class, a podcast, a webinar, a conference, a seminar, a coach.   We think “Aha!! Finally, a solution! I need that, it will fix this”. We work magic to be able to attend the event or read the book.  This act often requires magic because we’re already so busy that finding time to address the dilemma a dilemma in itself.  

A 2015 Gallup poll indicated 61% of working Americans say they don’t have enough time.  I would’ve imagined that number to be higher and maybe now in 2019 it is. Nonetheless, there’s often an urgent need for the solution because we simply do not have time for problems!  

So we find the thing we think will fix our issue and we consume it.  And then ya know what usually happens next? A whole lot of forgetting.  

50% of knowledge evaporates within the first hour of acquiring it.  Half. Gone in 60 minutes! 70% fades away within 24 hours and 90% within a week.  

Ya know that sense of confidence, motivation or inspiration you get from some learning experiences?  Like a moving Ted Talk or an inspirational book sometimes that just makes you feels good? That good feeling came from your THOUGHTS about applying what you learned.  

Unfortunately, actually applying new knowledge doesn’t always feel great.  It’s new, different. It often requires our focused effort and concentration. It takes time and energy that at least 61% of us say we don’t have.  So, our brains tell us to just keep doing things the way we already know how to, it’s too much effort the other way.  

Let’s say we decide to accept the fact that it will require effort.  We ‘re aware it’s going to feel clunky at first and we are willing to experience this.  Depending on who you ask, mastering a new skill takes anywhere from 20 – 10,000 hours. Well now, that’s quite a range, isn’t it?  Let’s go with the low end, 20 hours. The problem is not the effort it takes to apply the new skill.  The problem is once we learn something, that same magic that was required to find the time and energy to consume the knowledge is required of us again.  Now we have to pull another rabbit out of a hat to find at least 20 hours of application (nevermind thousands of hours). Most of us just don’t do it. And as a result, we learn but the knowledge often just disappears.        

“I want to spend lots of time learning and never do anything with what I learned” – said no one ever.  But we do it all the time.  

Here are two key questions to ask yourself beforehand to help ensure the investments you make in your personal and professional development stick.  And, they ARE investments – of time, energy, money.

Why am I consuming this?  

A lot of times we avoid the real work necessary to solve our problem because we think we don’t know enough (which is often not true).  Consuming information feels like action but it isn’t – it’s passive. It’s just preparation for the action that actually produces the desired result.  You can read more about massive and passive action here.  Getting clear on your reasons for consuming knowledge and liking those reasons will go a long way in helping you apply what you’ve learned.  

What will I commit to doing with this investment? 

Knowledge isn’t power.  It’s the application of knowledge that is powerful.  Before learning whatever it is you’re learning about, consider what you will do with it.  We often have fantasies of what we will do with it but get really honest with yourself here.  Commit to learning with application in mind.   Then commit to application.

Some of you are over-consuming personal and professional development stuff.  I get it. I’m with ya, I love this stuff too. In fact, one of my favorite things about my work is that it almost requires me to stay attuned to these things. At the same time, unapplied knowledge doesn’t just cost time, energy, and money – it suffocates progress.  Don’t let that thing you meant to be a solution to your problem become a barrier to the solution.   

Managing our time, energy, and sometimes money, so we can develop personally and professionally can be an undertaking in itself!  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session.   

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I was a Supervisor in Quality Assurance.  One of the lower-performing team members I had been monitoring had a really big win and I wanted to acknowledge him.  The next day I left early for work, stopped at a store and purchased a dozen balloons, maybe more… I went to the office and did up his desk to the 9’s!  I was so excited, his reaction was sure to be the highlight of my day.    

Turned out his reaction WAS rather memorable.   Just not in the way I expected. Have you ever heard of globophobia?  This was well before Oprah revealed herself as having it in 2013 and I sure hadn’t ever heard of it.  Turns out it is the fear of balloons. Turns out it’s a real thing. And, it turned out that my guy, the recipient of my recognition efforts, had it.   

Let’s face it.  Sometimes our recognition efforts fall flat.  That’s one of the many reasons why we don’t do it as much as we want to or think we should.  Other reasons might sound like: 

• “It takes time, time I don’t have”   
• “It’s just a feel-good tactic, it doesn’t make that much of a difference” 
• “They’re adults do I really need to give out “atta-boys” and “atta-girls”?
• “I don’t know what to do.  They don’t want company tchotchkes or the same old gift cards… I want it to be meaningful”
• “It’s too complicated, I have to follow the company process/system”

If you have found yourself thinking any of these thoughts, or some variation of them, no worries – you aren’t alone!  The Center for Creative Leadership reported this year that “Inspiring Others” is among the top concerns of leaders across the globe.  Many of us are challenged with doing recognition effectively. Heck, inspiring OURSELVES is hard enough some days – right?  

At the same time, we can’t deny the proven links between employee recognition and important factors like the employee experience, employee engagement, retention, and recruitment.  Well, we can deny the links, but not without consequence. Really, it’s just easier to acknowledge the links and find ways to leverage what we know works. And here’s what definitely works – employees who feel valued.    

Employees who feel valued are valuable employees.   

Here’s the caveat.  We do not have the power to make anyone feel anything. At no time are we ever able to control someone else’s emotions. Never. Not at home, not at work, not at our kids’ schools. Nowhere, no one, never.

If you could make your employees feel a certain wouldn’t you would have done it by now? You probably would’ve chosen to make them not only feel valued but also motivated, creative, innovative, inspired, energized, confident, etc. But our employees don’t always feel this way and you can’t force them.

We can, however, create an environment that is optimally primed for team members to experience the desired feelings.  One key way to accomplish this is through meaningful employee recognition. The good news is the recipe for meaningful employee recognition has only one ingredient:  The belief that it matters. That it’s an important and impactful part of your job as a leader.

Start with a minimum baseline.  What is the minimum amount of times you will commit to performing some form of employee recognition per week?  Start there. Pick a number. Commit. Follow through. Watch the positive impacts. Then watch how your belief in the value of employee engagement naturally grows.   

Would you like to experience even more of the positive results from focusing on employee recognition?  Want more highly engaged team members, who produce high-quality work and are loyal to the organization?  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session.   

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Barf Club.  It’s the loving, although rather gross name, my colleagues and I have for our goals.  We know it’s a right-sized goal when we feel excited and slightly terrified at the same time.  Excited that it’s possible, terrified at the idea that ‘lil ol’ me could pull it off! 

I’ve been there before.  The day I mailed the college application.  The day I accepted the job. The day I received the keys to my first office with a real door.  The day I walked out of the bank after opening a business account. All felt both exciting and terrifying.    

These were defining moments.  These were moments where the story was yet to be written.  These were moments where the decisions I made influenced the trajectory of the story.  

It’s easy to see defining moments when they are big, bold, obvious.  Life-changing events cause us to pause, take notice and anticipate how the change will impact our future.  But often, we miss smaller, yet extremely impactful, defining moments. We don’t often wake up in the morning and consider that whatever we will do right now, in this day – matters, really, truly matters.    

Here’s the thing.  Those big, bold, obvious, exciting, yet somehow slightly nauseating opportunities only come from the smaller defining moments.  Let’s look at a promotion opportunity at work as an example.    

The moment you think of the promotion as even being possible for you?  Defining Moment.  

The moment you take action to prepare/develop yourself for the promotion? Defining Moment.  

The moment you make the decision to apply? Defining Moment.

The moment you follow through?  Defining Moment.

Unfortunately, our choices in the defining moments of life can also work against us and move us away from our desired results.  This is failing ahead of time. This is playing it safe, living by default and recycling the same life.  

Ultimately it’s self-rejection and it’s made up of Defining Moments that look like this: 

• Changing your mind 
• Staying confused
• Not doing what you planned
• Not following through on commitments
• Not taking action
• Giving up
• Lowering your standards
• Making excuses
• Justifying inaction

We don’t consciously acknowledge these as Defining Moments or as self-rejection.  We make them sound much more justified and dignified. But, not seeing these moments for what they are, is only cheating ourselves more!   We cheat ourselves out of the defining moment AND out of the awareness that we are rejecting ourselves, rejecting the dream that who we want to become is actually possible.      

You’re here for a purpose.  A purpose that can only uniquely be filled by you.  Look for the moments where you can make choices FOR that purpose, not against it.  There’s more of those moments happening than you may think. If you look, I bet you could find some today.  Need a hand? I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session.   

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She had just been promoted.  She was excited and nervous, more of the latter.  I knew she was nervous without her saying so. Her string of “What if…” questions made it pretty obvious.  

What if…..

They don’t like me?

I don’t do a good job?

It’s harder than I imagine?

My team doesn’t perform well?

I can’t keep up with work and being a Mom?

None of her “What if…” questions accounted for a positive outcome.  They all focused on the undesirable.

All of her questions could be wrapped up into one overarching, looming, scary “What if” question:    

“What if I fail?”

Her brain, just like yours and mine, has a primitive and primary desire to ensure safety and security.  It’s a survival instinct. One that can keep us from really showing up in our lives if we let it.

So one by one, we addressed the frightening “What if’s”.  Together, we went to the scary place in the future where failure was a possibility.  And one by one, we discovered there was a recovery option for each possible failure.       

Once we had done that, we were able to look at the opposite outcome – success. An outcome that was not only possible for her, but it was also actually much more likely.  By the time we were finished, she was imagining success not failure. She left fueled with confidence. Not confidence in the sense that everything would go perfectly, but confidence that even if the “What If’s” actually happened – it was all going to be ok.  We had tipped the scales, excitement overtook nervousness.        

How about you?  Where do you find yourself “What if’ing” your future?  Are your questions focused on the undesirable? Is the undesirable actually likely?  

Take some time to let yourself go to the scary “What if…” place.  Put yourself hypothetically in that situation and uncover what you would do if that was real.  I suspect you will find that there is a recovery option.  

Often, it’s much easier to go to the land of “What if” with a tour guide.  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session.

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Ya know those certain spots on your commute where you can just expect there to be a traffic hassle?  You may not live where I do but you probably have experienced this.  

There’s this one exit I take now and again, it’s a long one-lane exit (that really should be at least two lanes if you ask me).  It’s pretty much a guarantee every time I take that exit someone is going to try and scoot over in front of me at the last minute.  

This used to really get under my skin.  “Oh I see blankity-blank-blank, your time is so much more valuable than mine.  Please, go right ahead” I would say aloud angrily (as if they could hear me). Then, I would “let” them over and seeth over how inconsiderate they were.  

This is just a small example of the many “stories” we all tell ourselves.  We can’t help it. Our brains pick up clues around us and then piece the clues together to explain them and make sense of them.  We wrap the clues up in a story.  

In my case, the story I told myself required believing the other driver was inconsiderate, selfish, rude and purposefully so.  This “logical” explanation had really very little to do with the facts. I had no idea who this other driver was, where they were going, or why they were not in the exit lane earlier.  I could not possibly KNOW he/she was a self-centered jerk, my brain just made up that story.  

This is an important concept to get a hold of.  If we are not careful, we will believe we are just taking in observations of the world around us.  

What parts of your day are you telling yourself a story about and is the story serving you?     

The good news is, if you choose to, you can override this automated storytelling function of your brain.  You can direct the way the story gets written. All of a sudden that jerk in traffic can become someone totally different.  

The same is true for the stories you tell about the far more impactful parts of your life.  You can take the clues you have about your career, your family, even yourself and wrap them up in a story that serves you much better!  

Please do not read this as: “Make up stuff that isn’t true so you can feel good” when what I am really saying is “Find the absolute facts and decide on purpose what you want to make the facts mean”.   

In short, your brain will be authoring a story whether you choose to direct it or not.  Why not do it on purpose?  

Often we are too close to our own stuff to discern fact from fiction, a helpful story from an unhelpful story.  Most of us can use an objective perspective. I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session. 

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We set goals.  We go after them.  We experience failure.  We get up, dust off and take another whack at it.  And if we choose to repeat the “fail, get up, dust off and take another whack” part for as long as it takes, eventually, we get there.  We reach the goal.  

But what about the people that don’t reach the goal?  They’re not incapable. They are smart, talented people.  What gives?

Here’s what gives.  The main reason why any one of us hasn’t reached an intended goal yet is because our belief is not strong enough.  

I can hear some of you now.  “Oh come on Deneen, are you saying all I have to do is believe in my goal and it will come true?  Isn’t this some Law of Attraction woo woo BS? I mean I actually have to DO something, not just believe.”

And you’re right.  Action is a required part of reaching goals.  I was having this same conversation with my coach recently and she blew me away when she said:

 “We can’t out act our thinking”

She could not have been more right.  

Think about how you feel when you initially set a goal.  We often start with the end in mind and we imagine how awesome it is going to be at the finish line.  We start off enthusiastically believing it could all really happen.  

But then, we start tackling it.  It gets hard. We fail.  

Our thoughts change.  We start believing the OPPOSITE of what we believed when we started out.  We start believing we can’t. Here is where we often downsize, delay or give up on the goal.    

Today I want to offer you the option to re-decide FOR your goal instead of changing your mind AGAINST your goal.  Reconsider all the reasons why you wanted the goal in the first place, all the reasons why it was once possible.    

What you will come up with is a bunch of thoughts.  Thoughts are all optional – ALL of them! Why not pick the ones that propel you forward?  

Spend some time in re-decision mode.  Are those thoughts that you had at the onset still plausible? If they are, then re-decide to believe them again!  If not, why not? (Be sure you like your answers!)    

Success is just a series of decisions.  I encourage you today to re-decide, and keep on re-deciding until you get the result you want.  

It’s perfectly normal to want to throw in the towel, especially if your goal is a stretch.  Sometimes it’s hard to muster up the desire to take another whack, especially if you’ve already taken a bunch of whacks.  If this is you, I can definitely help, just click here and we will chat.  No awkward sales pitch – just a free helping hand.  What do you have to lose?     

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Sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, visions of totally blowing it… Have you been there? Yeah, me too.  

Interviews, public speaking, corrective action issues, networking events – any of these things can send us into a tailspin of nerves.

Most of the time we think that if we had experience in whatever it is we are nervous about we would not be nervous.  We think experience = confidence.  

This is going to come as a surprise to many of you but experience does NOT equal confidence.     

Just because I have done something before, even several times before does not mean I am confident.  In fact, in order to have done it the first time I had to, despite the lack of evidence from my past, have some level of confidence that I could accomplish it.  So if it does not come from experience where does it come from? 

First, let’s define confidence.  

I used to think confidence meant that I thought only good things about myself.  Now, I know that confidence means being aware that I am great in some ways, not so great in others AND that my shortcomings can not disqualify me from having confidence.    

Which leads us to the #1 way you can begin increasing your self-confidence today.  Think about yourself on purpose.  What are you great at?  What are you not so great at –  what are your opportunities to learn, grow, evolve?  What are you making those opportunities mean? I want you to seriously consider taking just 5 minutes today to answer these questions.  Commit to answering the questions. Then answer them. Then choose. It’s all just your opinion anyway and you can choose any opinion you want.  Choosing an opinion of yourself that serves you is one of the best confidence boosters ever! (Note: This may be easier said than done, if you are struggling with this – find two good and one not-so-good qualities and just practice.)   

Let’s talk about a second place self-confidence can come from: Committing to a goal, outcome or result.  In my corporate career, I taught public speaking courses.  Every session included a room full of nervous participants.  Funny thing is, they had no idea I was nervous too. Even after thousands of hours of facilitating training courses I still get nervous (more proof that confidence does NOT come from experience).   Despite my nerves, I was committed to the learners. I was committed to helping them learn and committed to being an example that it is indeed possible to do public speaking AND be nervous. I knew that no matter what I was going to show up with my A-game and do my best. That commitment created confidence.    

Once you commit to a goal with an “all-in, 100%, no matter what” kind of commitment the next place confidence will come from is the Willingness to fail.  I have written several posts about failure and you can learn more about what I think about failure by visiting here & here.  In short, failure itself is never bad.  It’s what we make it mean about ourselves that feels awful.  We end up talking terribly to ourselves about ourselves after a failure.  

All of that self-harassment we do on the backside of failure is optional.  But for the sake of argument, let’s just say we can’t help it. Let’s just say we know for sure we’re going to give ourselves a lashing after a failure.  So what?? The worst thing that can possibly happen is that we feel bad about ourselves. It’s just negative emotion and there is no emotion you can’t handle.  For my public speaking learners, it was not the ability to speak in front of people that created their confidence. It was the belief that even if they failed, they would be ok.  

So to recap, here are 3 new ways you can generate confidence today:

1. Think about yourself on purpose. You don’t have to think you are amazing to have self-confidence.  Like all of us, you have amazing qualities and you have some places to work on.  You just have to think about yourself on purpose and embrace it, all of it.
2. Commit to a goal, outcome or result.  Committing (really, really committing) to a goal, outcome or result generates confidence because when we are truly committed we will keep taking action even when it feels hard or we don’t feel like doing it.  When we persevere we build confidence. It doesn’t even have to be a big goal, just something that challenges you a bit is perfect!
3. Be willing to fail.  When we face the possibility of failure and do so knowing for sure we will be ok even if we fail, it creates confidence.  This willingness to fail allows us to show up even when the odds are against us and we have the opportunity to prove to ourselves failure isn’t the worst possible scenario.   The worst possible scenario is letting fear rule and not showing up in the first place.                  

Self-confidence is one of the areas clients ask me about the most.  Yet most of them think they are the only one who feels this way. Can you relate?  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session.   We will just chat and you will get a taste of what having a personal trainer for your brain is like! 

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Our thoughts create your feelings, which drive our actions and ultimately our results.  Therefore, it makes sense to think on purpose. When we think about thinking on purpose, few of us would choose whiny, cranky, irritable, thoughts.  We would never choose complaints.  

Yet studies show we complain an average 30 times a day!  And every time we do, we are taking a few steps backward.  Complaints introduce negativity that can’t help but impact our results, our quality of life and some research even suggests, the length of our lives!    

“Every time you complain, your irritability — like a virus — is neurologically picked up… So by all means, train your brain to be optimistic and positive because (according to 30+ years of longitudinal research conducted by Duke University and the Mayo Clinic), it will literally add years to your life.” — Mark Waldman  

For those exact reasons, I made up a challenge for myself last month.  I called it “The Complain Diet”. For a whole month, I was not going to complain – about anything.  

I imagined it was going to be challenging but not hard.  I imagined that all I would have to do is pay attention and choose my words carefully.  

I failed.  

It was not but a few hours into my Complain Diet when sneaky complaints snuck out.  By the end of the first week, I caught myself saying things like:

“He just doesn’t get it”     

“There’s never enough time”

“Rain?  On a Saturday?? Again???”

“Of course there’s a traffic jam (Insert annoyed sign here)”

Now, none of these SOUND terribly negative.  Some of them might even seem like they’re just simple observations.  But alas, they are not. They’re complaints.  

At one point I even thought to myself “Sheesh Deneen, if this is what you do when you are focused on NOT complaining you must really sound like a whiny brat when you aren’t paying attention”.    

And then I gave up.  

I gave up trying to NOT complain.  I focused on what I do want (gratitude) instead of what I don’t want (complaining).  

Our brains will find what they are looking for.  When I intend to look at things with a lens of gratitude that is what I will see.  As the old saying goes “When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change”.  

There are lots of ways to generate gratitude, here are a few favorites:   

• Gratitude Journal – you can even do this electronically with the 5 Good Things App (gotta love it, there’s an app for EVERYTHING!)  
• Find 1 person in your network every day – personal or professional – and tell them you appreciate them are grateful for them and why.  Surprisingly this does more for you than them!     
• Think about where you find the most grateful people or wherever you feel most grateful (nature walk or the beach maybe?) and go spend some time there
• Be grateful for things you might have initially judged as negative.  How can you spin that traffic jam into something that happened FOR you, not TO you?
• Read this post and learn about being grateful for yourself and even for things you want but don’t yet have  

How about a helping hand to change the way you’re looking at things?  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session. 

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It was a holiday weekend and I had multiple projects, big ones, all needing my attention around the same time.  I hadn’t taken a day off in months and I was so ready for a break.  

I had to choose between what I wanted in the moment (a respite) and what I wanted even more than that (value for my clients).

Have you been there?  Whether it was resisting happy hour with colleagues so you can finish a report…. Or declining a piece of birthday cake at a party so you can have the satisfaction of sticking to your commitments… Or waiting to say what’s on your mind in a highly charged situation until after you have had a chance to think it through…  We’ve all been in the place of choosing gratification now or gratification later.

Recently, it has become even more apparent to me that choosing the latter equates to more intense and more meaningful gratification.  I think, sometimes, we forget that when we choose “gratification later” that “later” part actually does come! And when it does – oh wow, is it way better and way more valuable than the short term, instant hit we get from succumbing to our more primitive desires.       

Learning to delay gratification can be a game-changing skill in your life.  Take some time today to think about where you might be able to evolve in this area.  Maybe it’s delaying the gratification of relaxing until after you exercise in the morning?  Or delaying the gratification of food, drink, or socializing online or in-person until after you accomplish a task?  Delaying the enjoyment of care-free evenings until you finish that certificate or degree? Delaying the pleasure of travel until you pay off that last trip?   

Whatever it is, practicing the skill of delay will help keep you focused on your goals and lead you toward the results you want MOST.  There’s the things we want in the moment and then there’s the things we want even more than that. The things you want most will likely involve delay.  

As for me, what did I end up doing when I was faced with deciding between the respite I desperately desired and showing up for my clients the way I truly wanted to?  I ended up talking to my family and asking if we can reschedule the holiday. In the past, I would have never considered this as an option. Today, I am grateful to have a “What are all the possibilities” outlook.  I asked, we agreed and soon I will have that time off I wanted, be able to enjoy it guilt-free AND have the satisfaction of creating a ridiculous amount of value for my clients. I will have earned time off and earned satisfied clients.  Win-win.   

Delaying gratification can be challenging. It can also be the very thing that gets you to the win-win scenario you desire.  I can definitely help, just click here to schedule a free, 30-minute discovery session