Get Unstuck and Get Going

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Get Unstuck and Get Going

In case you wondered what the banner and links badges at the top of the sidebar represented, let me explain:

In life you will reach a point where you cannot seem to move on with your life. Know what I mean? Here’s the thing, you get stuck in a rut and can’t find a way out. You are doing stuff but it does not seem to be the right kind of stuff. There is something deepdown that is nagging at you to do some good or great stuff. But your life suddenly lacks direction. You lose control of your destiny to that alltime favourite - apathy. To move on, you need to make a decision and might need to take stock of wha you need to do and where you are going. Regrettably, like most of us, the decision to do something about it becomes yet another chore riddled with the need to do this and that before the other can happen. So you put it on the backburner and carry on with whatever rut you are in.

You are not stimulated anymore.

I was there. I was in the rut of life. And then at a NLP seminar I saw a wierd orange coloured book for sale. It intrigued me. So I picked it up and found that it was not a normal book. It was constructed differently and had another booklet inside and the pages were torn into 3 sections with each section having different text……and well it was wierd but it did something great to stimulate me to read it. So I bought it. You can too.

Since then I have added more for family and friends and work colleagues and also met and attended a seminar with the author and Canada’s Coach of the Year 2006, Mr Michael Bungay Stanier.

Michael lives in Canada but is an Australian (with that wierd twangy flat vowelled accent we antipodeans have), and he has created something that works. It seriously works and is so simple. It makes you want to move your ass big time!

If it worked for me, it’ll work for you. Everyday I use the book for inspiration and self-coaching.

How has it had an impact on me? Well, here’s the thing, after reading the book and doing some self-evaluation, I went and did it. Did what you may ask. Well, I just did what I wanted to do and this blog is one of those things I’d stupidly put off for a long time for any number of irrelevent excuses. Wearing striped socks is another thing I just did. I wanted to do it before but conventionality and uniformity with my fellow ’suits’ prevented me from breaking away.

Another ‘thing’ I did was find myself transfixed by a brilliant picture. This picture inspired the best outrageously original idea I have ever had.

The idea or innovation is now a work in progress due to explode onto the UK and international scene in the summer of 2007. Beige people say I am crazy to take on the 2007 project. They cannot see beyond their fishbowl or even see that the chance of success is only proportional to the required passion, drive and commitment to bring it off. They lack all three and have the audacity to tell me to stop!! Outrageous. Or is their fear of my success beginning to raise its ugly head? Yes, people do fear others’ success and no amount of rational explanation can reduce the “fear they will succeed” level. I am up against it everyday but because GU&GG helped me to get to the place that finally helped me to get to the place that inspired this original idea, I have nobody out there to turn to for advice on what it is I am putting together, nor are there benchmarks to guide me. I am creating the benchmark, the guidelines the originality. I own it all and that is so incredible to realise that you and only you can make it happen.

More about the 2007 ‘biggy’ later.

OK that is my explanation over. Go see what Michael has to say and decide for yourself if you want to Get Unstuck & Get Going on the stuff that matters.