I was out mowing my lawn this morning, and was thinking about how easy it is to do that nowadays. I was thinking about how just a few short years ago, I agonized over cutting my lawn and edging the grass and was making it a really, really big deal. Now I do it effortlessly and I wonder what all the trouble was about, when I had the problems doing it. I really had problems thinking about it because the work in itself is still just as it always has been and I now find it easy. Being an Extraordinary Coach I'm always thinking about ways to learn something, ways to teach something, ways to impact the lives of my clients, and to impact the lives of the coaches that read this blog. I got to thinking, there are probably lots of things, lots of other things that I would do if it were easy to do. Edging my grass didn't seem easy to do a short time ago and now it does, so it wasn't a huge leap for me to start thinking that many of those things that I think are difficult to do, they're only difficult because I think them so.
This mind that I have been given, that you have been given, is a fantastic tool. You may have heard the expression, with the right tool, any job seems easy, well, with the right tool, any job does seem easy. When that tool is your mind, let me tell you, the way that you set it makes all the difference in the world. As you think about the way a sail on a ship is set, how the wind is only blowing in one direction, but ships are going in every direction. The reason that is, is because how the sail is set. There's one wind coming from one direction, and you have ships going East, West, North and South. The same is true of the circumstances in your life, the very same thing is true of the deeds that you want to do. All the work, the activities that you want to do can be made to be easy, simply by thinking of them that way.
It was while mowing my grass, stopping momentarily and musing about the revelation that I just received, that I receive another revelation. Working in the technology industry using computers, and using websites and all that sort of technology, every now and then you get to a place where you wonder, if I can do this. You may want a particular thing to happen on your side, or a particular interaction between your client and you, and you're thinking, "now can I do that very easily?" Well, really? As far as technology is concerned since you're only pushing buttons on a computer, everything is easy. Everything is easy whether you're pushing buttons on a computer, or whether you're picking up a hundred pound weight, it is only difficult in your mind.
Then I came up with this excellent revelation that I'm going to share with you. I stopped what I was doing, ran in to my Facebook wall and posted it because it was so phenomenal. I have decided, that I am no longer going to ask if something is easy to do because I know it's easy to do. I'm just simply going to ask if there is any way at all to do it, and if there is any way at all to do it, then I will use my mind to make it seem easy. No longer will you hear me utter the fact, that life is difficult. No longer will you hear me say things like relationships are tenuous at best. Those statements will cease coming out of my mouth. That's not to say that my life is perfect, that's not to say that I have everything that I want, everything that I need. What that is to say is, I have decided that I'm going to use my mind to take everything that I have and make it phenomenal. I encourage you to do the same, take everything that you have and make it phenomenal.
Even when your clients don't respond in the way that you are encouraging them to respond, if your clients don't do what you suggest that they do, never ever think that it is difficult. Never ever paint yourself as being victimized by the fact that your clients seem to be ignoring you. In order to do that we reintroduce the tool, of the looking good being right. Get "looking good being right" out of your life. Get that phrase out of your world, it has no place there. You don't care about looking good or being right, and you don't care about making your client wrong. You simply ask your client the second tool that we use which is the, "what's working, what's not working, what's missing and what's next." When you are approaching on that standpoint, the right and the wrong goes away.
I've given you some tools as how to manage some consequentials as a result of making the decision that it is all easy to do, and if it's not you can use your mind to make it easy, but don't miss the fact that that this is what this blog is all about. This blog is entitled easy, and it's entitled easy for a reason. You decide to make it easy by using your mind. Make it easy by using your mind. What do you think your mind is for?
If this blog has blessed you and I know that it has, or anyone you know can be blessed by this blog, please by all means pass it on to them. Until the next time, you have yourself a good time.
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