Toronto, 4.55am, November 12 2008
I don’t sleep so well these days. Seven hours of high quality REM sleep are a distant memory. Now it’s 5-6 hours of fitful sleep, fragmented by night-time frights and bogeymen who feed on my post-meltdown angst.
On the other hand, I’ve never been more awake. I’ve never felt more plugged into the world. I’ve never been had so many opportunities to be brilliant. Every meeting and every conversation is a chance to make the difference that makes the difference. My capacity to mobilise others is expanding. And so is my feeling of well being and excitement.
It’s a weird combination. In the deep of night, my subconscious thrusts me into the Dark Zone where I’m at the mercy of creatures I cannot control. In the light of day, I control my own destiny. I can see what’s coming at me and I’m swinging for the fences.
It’s been a fascinating evolution. At the beginning of October, like everyone else, I was blindsided by the panic and intensity of the global economic maelstrom. I was perplexed and alarmed as my personal net worth plummeted with the Dow and the TSX. I resisted the truth: the bubble had burst. A new harder reality had emerged.
In my seminars I wrestled with my own inauthenticity: I was encouraging others but I wasn’t walking my own talk. So I began attending my own seminars. I began to accept the developments around me unquivocally. Then I went a step further: I embraced them. I saw them as invitations to action.
What better time to track exponential trends? What better time to motivate and coach? What better time to help others reinvent themselves? What better time to be the best me I can be? No better time. Now is the time to be preeminent – the benchmark by which all others are judged. That’s my goal today as I fly to Detroit to deliver a program: to be a model of what’s possible so that other are inspired to be the same. What’s yours?
Mike, I don’t know if it is the season,planets or something in the air!! A problem occurred at my job and I did a great job in handling it. However, somehow it troubled me for 2 weeks, scared me and led me to a good learning process. I followed what you’ve said ,,,I thought about all the good development I’ve brought to my work and about all the great feedback.Then I used the Lipkin’s questions which motivated me to do my best , and be the best I could be. Mean while I kept telling myself that things would go just well while I was embracing the situation and accepting the feeling. I knew what happened had to happen because there’s a message I was supposed to get. The same problem occurred again but this time I was more empowered than before and I was more confident. The journey of life requests us to be brave in taking action. My goal is to build peace and trust within me .
Best wishes .
Iman
Thank you Sonia. Your deep understanding of the scjbeut of ME and your willingness to stand up and be counted is so refreshing. We need an uncorrupted voice in traditional media to root out the grubby little minds that have held sway in perpetuating the myths and quack science surrounding ME for far to long. Expose these charlatans for what they are feeding off the misery of very ill people. As for Trolls, they just show themselves up for the weak fools that they are.