Diving deep to find your pearl of wisdom
Today I am pondering how extraordinary a pearl of wisdom truly is. And like a pearl, if you want to experience these pearls of wisdom, you’ve actually got to take a deep dive into your inner world to release them. Because it’s our inner world where we house all that we are capable of and all that we can possibly achieve.
It’s within our inner world where our core self is, where our *10-traits of I-amness enable us to be confident, to be strong and to overcome anything that life throws at us.
Ultimate You author and CEO of the number one life coaching school in Australasia, Sharon Pearson, describes these 10 traits as attributes that hold you up. These include:
- Being curious and filled with wonder
- Risk taking
- Being spontaneous
- Love
- Warmth
- Playfulness
- Uniqueness
- Optimistic
- Emotional
She says when we are functioning and have these traits present in our lives, our self-esteem will be restored because we feel worthy, enough and loved. And our ability to manage our needs, emotions and boundaries is strong.
In my ponder, I am thinking about when I was a child and even my daughter before teenage years hit her, these traits were very prominent. I love it when you see kids have little light bulb moments and the big eyes open up. I love that kids play, are loving, optimistic and ask lots of questions. I love it when they come to a realisation and to them it makes total sense, it’s the best idea ever, it’s totally brilliant.
And it’s this brilliance that I believe we must hold onto to spark our growth.
Your breakthrough moment
Ponder this. When was the last time you had a breakthrough? What happened? Where were you? What were you doing? What did you learn from this moment and what did you gain?
Failing forward is a good thing right, but if you don’t grab your pearls of wisdom when you fail forward and learn from your mistakes, then the likelihood is that you will just repeat the same mistakes again and continue to loop in this backward cycle.
Anyone that has experienced addictions will know what this feels like. Anyone that has been a yo-yo dieter will know what this feels like. Anyone that has remained in a destructive relationship will know what this feels like. Anyone that has wasted money time and time again will know feels like. Anyone that is over functioning or under functioning will know what this feels like.
When you are running your own business and striving for success, breakthrough moments are so critical for your ongoing ability to move towards your goals. I know personally in my business when I have had breakthrough moments it’s because I have tried and tried again, change my beliefs about myself to be empowering, taken massive action and sought help from experts to help me. I also invest a lot of time and money in learning, because the more knowledge I have and the more I know, the better I am and can be.
It’s simple things I look back on now that I go wow. When I started out as a coach, I was pretty fearful of shooting videos and the thought of putting myself out there in cyber land was pretty daunting. But I knew in this modern world, it was a must and I couldn’t avoid digital marketing, this wasn’t negotiable.
The one thing holding me back were negative beliefs and fears of not being good enough or what people would think. I mean social media can be brutal. With the support of a coach I soon smashed these fears and changed my beliefs to be empowering, everything changed.
I learnt and trained myself to shoot self-videos, do Facebook lives, edit videos and lay over music using digital software, as well as becoming an expert in technical equipment to use from lighting to teleprompters and accessories such as tripods and selfie-sticks. I can now market online including doing Facebook advertising, sales funnel software and an online database to house my clients and do all my marketing from.
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I mean, holly sh*t, even I shock myself with how far I have come in a very short time. And each time I have learnt something, I grab onto my pearls of wisdom to help me approach things even better next time as well as coaching my clients on the short-cuts so they can avoid my mistakes and learn quickly.
The one big thing about breakthroughs is growth. And just like a beautiful pearl does when the oyster opens, when we experience growth, we shine. And when we shine we release all the good hormones like endorphins that stimulate our physical state to be motivated.
If we focus on mistakes and continue to repeat them, the black clouds appear and follow us. Hormones like adrenalin and cortisol are released and we feel flat, unmotivated, sad and frustrated.
The more we focus and learn from our breakthroughs the pearls of wisdom will be released. And like a pearl, we must dig deep into our inner world to find them.
Take action
What’s your ponder about this? What pearl of wisdom just dropped for you? Don’t forget to tune into my podcast now for more deep thinking.
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