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Forget about
London Free Press
As we approach a New Year 2001 will go down in history as a year that we would all like to forget but it’s a year that helped us become more human. It helped us to turn to each other for support and a year that created meaning for us.
Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach has taught that you can transform current anxieties and fears into strategic growth.
- Forget about yourself and focus on others.
Fear can drive people into themselves and make them feel isolated and helpless. The best strategy here is to go in the opposite direction expanding your connection with others, focus on helping others and help them transform their negatives into positives.
- Forget about your needs and focus on relationships.
People in scary times become frightened about the viability of their commodities, the things they sell and the jobs they hold. A more strategic response here is to disregard your own commodity and focus on deepening the power and possibility of all your relationships with family, friends, team members, suppliers, clients, customers and prospects.
- Forget about your losses and focus on opportunities.
The things that you had and took for granted may have disappeared. Some people may never get over this. They keep trying to replay their old games. A better strategy is to start an entirely new game. Use new ideas, new energies, new tools and new resources. A big opportunity is suddenly available now for achieving far more than you ever did in the past.
- Forget your difficulties and focus on your progress.
Things may not be as easy as they were. The new difficulties will either defeat you or reveal new strengths. Your physical muscles always get stronger working against resistance. The same is true for the muscles in your mind, your spirit and your character. Treat this whole period as a challenge at a time when you can make the greatest progress as a human being.
- Forget about the future – focus on today.
The future is an abstraction. It doesn’t exist except it’s an idea. The only future that has any reality is the one that you continually create for yourself through each day’s contributions, achievements and results. This is an excellent time to ignore all those experts who never saw the present circumstances coming. Focus on what you can do over the next 24 hours and you’ll become the only expert on the future that you’ll ever need.
- Forget about who you were and focus on who you can be.
Many people define themselves by external circumstances and when these abruptly change they don’t know how or who they are. So they keep trying to be who they used to be. From now on take your cues from inside from your dreams, ideals, values and operating principles. These need never change regardless of the circumstances.
- Forget about events and focus on your responses.
When things are going well, many people think that they are actually in control of events. That’s why the feel so defeated and depressed when things turn bad. They think that they’ve lost some fundamentability. The most consistently successful people in the world know that they can’t control events but continually work towards greater control over their creative responses to the events. This period, while things are uncertain, is an excellent time to focus on all of your attention and energies on being creatively responsive to all the unpredictable events that lie ahead.
- Finally, forget about your complaints and focus on your gratitude.
This is one of those times when everyone has to make a fundamental decision to complain or to be grateful. When things turn negative, the consequences of this decision are much greater. Complaining only attracts negative thoughts in people. Gratitude creates opportunity for the best thinking actions and results to emerge. Focus on everything that you are grateful for, communicate this and open yourself each day to the best consequence.
