Boundaries are needed for limitless growth
As a leader, I create time each morning for the serenity, peace and powerful insights of taking a gratitude walk. I walk without expectation and each morning discover insights to expanding my inner wealth. When I walk by something that delights me, I utilize my spin my grateful ring (a brain training tool creating a positive trigger). Yesterday, I found myself spinning my grateful ring for a fence. This particular fence was built to ensure young children can play safely on their elementary school yard playground. The fence created a caring and respectful boundary to the sacred space where hearts openly play, curiosity delights in new discoveries and the seeds are planted for lifelong friendships. My heart smiled as I noticed the fence was built to honor the deep roots and years of growth of a beautiful tree growing on the playground.
Then I realized, there are great leadership leassons from this fence and tree for my life and my clients.
1) Often times, the fences that were built for us when we were saplings don’t fit us anymore.
The fences that were originally built to keep us safe to grow are now constraining the process of growth. If we are to grow beyond our limits, we have to be open to tearing down the old fences and allow ourselves/company to naturally grow to its next level of success.
2) Fences are needed. When I tore down my fences in my own life/business, I did not build another fence right away because I wanted to be open to limitless growth. The problem being that with no fence, all kinds of unwanted critters came in. I found myself battling more than my share of unwanted snakes, rats, and parasites ravaging my space and limiting my growth. These critters gave me the gift of understanding that there are necessary boundaries for a limitless life. The critters forced me to learn discernment and create mechanisms to decide who was welcome into my space and who needed to remain outside the fence.
3) There is constant reconstruction. Leaders and companies are growing all the time. As a company takes off from a start up to a multi-million dollar company, fences will need to be rebuilt, expanded and mended. When I am coaching leaders, they often tell me that they have already dealt with a certain issue or vermin in the past. As we grow, expand and succeed, critters will still try and get into your space. Often times, the more successful you become, the more crafty the critters become as your space has become all the more enticing.
~ Take some time to examine your fence. Is it time to tear down parts that do not allow your growth? Does it need some mending? Do you need to weed out the self-sabotaging weeds in your space? As you take some time to do some weeding and mending, you will create a healthy space for those dreams to crack open from the seed, sprout new growth and blossom in ways more beautiful than expected.
Need some help with mending and weeding? Contact emotional intelligence expert Jenny R Craig, LCSW, BCD at jcraig@liveyourpower.com
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Jenny R. Craig, LCSW, BCD is a transformation specialist, utilizing her expertise in assisting leaders in creating authentic, profound, long-lasting impact in their organizations and personal lives. She is a confidential advisor and sounding board to top senior and emerging executives and leaders, CEOs, nonprofit leaders, diplomats, entrepreneurs, artists and visionaries, giving tools to unleash their potential and take quantum leaps to success. A dynamic and riveting speaker, Jenny has taught her life-changing training all over the world. She is a powerful influence in her field in psychology, having trained psychologists and coaches in 48 states on her techniques, has spoken at the United Nations, published three books and been part of two best sellers. As an innovator in brain-training tools, Jenny is the creator of the “ I am grateful for™” ring, numerous train-the-trainer programs and a six-week self-guided curriculum on emotional intelligence. Jenny is known for her unique ability to help leaders look within and move past self sabotage with practical tools leading people to quantum leaps in personal and professional success. Jenny is also the creator and force behind the Grateful Ring world wide peace movement. As a top change agent, Jenny has appeared on WINK, CBS, FOX, PBS and the Lifetime Network, been named WE magazine’s 2014 Who’s Who Among Women, 2012 American Business Woman Association Neapolitan Woman of the Year, Gulfshore Business’s 40 under 40, the guru of interest in Gulfshore Life, Sapphire Award Inscape Publishing, IMPACT Leadership 21’s United Nations Academy, distinguished speaker on Emotional Intelligence at Hodges University and taught for an independent course at Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on EQ. Find out more about leadership training at http://www.leadershipdeepdive.com, http://www.gratefulring.com and http://www.liveyourpower.com
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