Your Life is Not a Sound Bite or an Elevator Speech

Have you ever tried to impress someone in 60 seconds or less resulting in an epic fail?  "But wait, there's more", you might want to yell as the person of influence walks away.  "Here's my resume, a note from my mom, and my organ donor card.......I am worthy!!"  My "someone" I want to impress is Oprah.  I always wonder what I will say to her when I meet her to impress her with my greatness.

Of course, first impressions are important.  It's human nature to want to impress people.  But knowing and loving our day-to-day selves is much more important than someone else's first impression of us.

Most of us have anxiety in new situations and/or with people in positions of authority, with the President, the Queen, or our favorite rock stars.  It's natural, normal, and expected.  The important note, though, is that this is not who we are in totality, it is only part of us!!

In the short-term, people impress us with their presence, their confidence, their gravitas.  In the long-term, as we get to know people on a personal level, we are impressed by their values, how they handle a crisis, and how they treat friends, strangers, waitresses and the elderly.

If you are impressed by only wealth and power, you may be missing the bigger picture; and if you are being judged by only your money and power, you are being short changed.  

Let's have our 60 second speeches ready and keep them handy.  The best combination is to impress ourselves and others in the short-term and the long-term. 

You will know as your self-esteem improves, because when you meet someone famous and they aren't impressed by you, you will be able to say with ease, "it's her loss, because I would have really enriched her life if she took the time to know me."

Have a great day!

Xo

Conni

Today's Mantra:  I am more that what people see during an elevator speech.

Mantra for Every Day: I choose to send love to all; receiving love back multiplied in infinite proportions, creating and nurturing pathways of love.

Your Greatness Is Inside of You, It Is Your Job to Reveal It

One of Michelangelo's famous quotes is, “In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”

Each time we are able to move past a deeper layer of limitation within us, we become closer to the people of greatness we are meant to be.  Who would you be if your heart's desires could come true right now?  How close is your life to the life you wish to have?

If you could automatically let go of all of the barriers between you and your dreams, would you?  I don't mean making the rent payment optional and going on vacation, but what if you could let go of your internal struggles?  If the beliefs that hold you back:  I'm too young; too old; too short; too tall; too this or too that to follow my dreams.......what would happen if you could let go of those obstacles?

Marianne Williamson and Nelson Mandela were both credited with the following:  “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

If you could see yourself as a work of art in progress, would you understand that the value is already here now, just waiting for permission to be released?  Whose permission are you waiting for?  If you haven't received it yet from that person, you might consider moving forward without it.  If someone is telling that you are too (something limiting) to be successful, why do you believe them?

You are truly in competition with yourself, trying to be a better you today than you were yesterday.  Any progress creates a "win" because the goal is to live your best life using your unique gifts and talents.  You have the ability to mold and remold yourself until you are happy with the results. 

Have a wonderful day!

Xo

Conni

Today's Mantra:  I am willing to see the greatness within me.

Mantra for Every Day: I choose to send love to all; receiving love back multiplied in infinite proportions, creating and nurturing pathways of love.