In planning today’s blog post, two quotes kept coming to mind:
Wherever you go, there you are. Unknown, and,
Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
It seems to me that whilst each of these quotes are intertwined, there can be some very negative consequences of not considering the impact each has on the other.
Taking Woody Allen’s quote, you may be wondering who should turn up? And of course, the answer is ‘me’, but I wonder if that would really be worthwhile if ‘you are everywhere you go’, and that is what I want to explore in today’s blog post.
Wouldn’t it be great to achieve the success we want overnight? To wake up one morning and all our money worries had gone, our relationships with our families and friends were perfect, our abs were perfectly toned and the sun was always shining! Unfortunately this perfect world doesn’t exist, although an approximation is achievable provided we ‘show up’ and do the work.
Let’s look at a couple of examples.
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