July 26, 2006Show Up in Your Life and Your Conversations
I enjoyed this year’s National Speaker’s Association Convention more than any before, because I added what had been the missing ingredient at past conventions. Me.
I realized what I had done in the past when my fiend Cindi asked me why I was even going this year. Her question made me realize that I was complaining about what the convention wasn’t rather than embracing what it was. Clearly I had chosen to go, so I must have concluded that the benefits of going outweighed the liabilities. Yet my conversation with Cindi reflected the con side of the convention and overlooked the pros that were the reason I opted to go in the first place. This year I let my resistance go. I decided to have a blast, and I did, because I showed up 100%.
Are you showing up 100% in your world…particularly in your communication? For example, today my husband questioned my intent in a remark I made that he took the wrong way. In the past he would have stewed about it, but since he made a commitment to show up 100% for me in our interactions, he’s been doing just that. Showing up completely at a convention is a decision, and showing up completely in communication is too. Both are decisions that are well worth making.
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