The key for me was to focus on what I could do. You have to use fear as a signal to face your fear. Too many times we surrender to the fear and don’t do anything. I am currently in the middle of a training course which was not very well prepared and I was worried and fearful that it wouldn’t work out! The key for me was to focus on what I could do and to see what aspects I could control. In this instance, it was important to focus on the action and not to project into the future as to the imagined fearful outcomes. What I did start to imagine is what would happen if I didn’t take any action and that was scary!! This means starting with the end in mind When we can project into the future and know that if we don’t do anything things will just continue to get worse that can act as a conduit for action. To know that if you take action it cannot get any worse! The problem I had was that this training was very ill-prepared so I needed to make sure that the people I was training would have the best experience possible. So I asked what could I do to get that outcome? This means starting with the end in mind and an intention to serve the people who needed that help! So the idea came that I needed to enlist the help of the subject matter experts! Now they are not trainers and not delivery specialists, that’s where my strength sits. So the next question was how can I use their expertise and my strengths to deliver that experience and the solution was then simple, I just needed to arrange the training so that the experts delivered the on the job pieces and I would deliver the theoretical and the why behind their job. I would also oversee the quality of the delivery from the subject matter experts. I plan to leave a legacySo it’s always using that signal of fear to push you, I used to think it was a signal to move away. Now, I get it! If a truck is coming towards me then I am moving away, but when we are talking about non-life-threatening situations it’s a signal to go, to lean into it. To face it down and to start taking action that will help the situation. Whatever the result you will always be refining the actions so all that will happen is that it will just get better. As a result of this training and the collaboration with the experts, this will be the best training ever, and I plan to leave a legacy for the subject matter experts to keep the material up to date and relevant so this never happens again. For too long I was one of those people who would freeze and do nothing There you have it the effects of getting into action and using that fear as motivation to get things done. For too long I was one of those people who would freeze and do nothing. Sometimes when you ask the questions about what needs to happen, the answer is nothing, but you have to set the intention to make things better, you want the best outcome for whoever you are serving. All I can say is this has worked for me on many occasions now and I want it to work out. So give it a go and let me know what happens and until next time stay inspired!
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