What do you see?

What do you see?

Take a look in the mirror.  Do you like what you see?  Are you up there with the best, or just getting along?  Are you concerned about who you are in the world in your work place or at home? 

The solution is at hand.

So why is it important to see who you are, what you are about and what your contribution to the world is about?  Why, because you are the only you.

“If not you, then who?  If not now, then when?” - Niche

When was the last time you took a course, went to a conference or just pigged out on a programme for the sake of just loving it?  Could you be doing master chef, or master life or master photography?  Could you be doing a something more or something less so that you could have the life that you are yearning for?

Last weekend I attended PSASA – Professional Speakers Association of South Africa’s conference in Johannesburg.  Sixty national and international professional speakers shared “How to” skills and techniques.  Every monthly meeting inspires me.  Every conference excites me and challenges me to be more, do more and to give more.

To what continuous education programmes are you committed?  What are you implementing from such programmes – or are they just filling space in your diary and distracting yourself for short periods of time?  To what is it that you are committing your life to?  What hours of attendance or lack of, are impacting on who you are becoming or not?  How much time, money and effort are you investing in you to becoming the person you are born to be?  Not always will you see why or how, but I say to you, just do, because you know it is the right thing for you to be doing.  Be part of the process anyway.  Let the process feed your soul, your philosophy of life, your actions.  Let the process be the light and follow anyway because it is in the right direction for you. 

I love the space from the norm, the upliftment and to return with renewed energy that continuous education brings to me.  It changes the mundane into the special.  It brings newness, insight and permission to take courage.  It is about growth in self so that you may offer others more of who you authentically are.  It is about sharing more of self in a better, improved and generative way – why would you not want to be growing yourself???   It is researched that 5% of the world is strong, positive and encouraging.  That leaves 95% who are not.  What side of that stat do you want to be sitting on?  For myself, I want the 5% - lonely sometimes being there, but sure as I know anything, that is certainly my preference – what is yours?

Go out and find something you can join and enjoy.  Go out and find something that makes you a better person for having this type of experience, these people to learn from and this opportunity to pour yourself into.

Make your life one that you will remember, be grateful for and leave a legacy.  Barbara

Dr Barbara Johnson

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