Last weekend I went to see Michael Moore’s “Capitalism – A Love Story” mostly because I was curious to know his views on how things got so messed up in the financial sector. True to form, Moore uses the camera like a blunt instrument. I got what I went for – information delivered in an entertaining way and I was laughing through the tears in my eyes. But I left the theatre deeply saddened and on the verge of feeling acute hopelessness for what lay ahead for many millions of hard working and honest people.
The book by my bedside this week is The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success
Overresponding is defined this way: discovering choices in action that are available, even though they might not be apparent in the moment. Knowing that you can discover several possible choices gets you past feeling threatened and lets you select the one with the most potential to spur your evolution.”
I was speaking with a client who hired me recently and she was talking about how difficult it can be to be “up”, positive and enthusiastic about her immediate future when her financial results are disappointing and a future was not looking not so rosy from where she was standing. The challenge was to help her find ways not to stuff her emotions (it’s not healthy and they never stay stuffed for long) but to find ways to overrespond to her situation by identifying 10 possible solutions or new courses of action. She would only implement a small number but striving to identify 10 was exercising her overresponding muscle…her creativity and problem solving ability.
This is not an easy task when you are stuck in overreacting but you can buck the trend and operate much differently than most of the people who “stream out of the movie theatre of life” and overrespond your way out of the most uncomfortable and difficult situations.
Thomas J. Leonard sums it up best “If you’re alive, creativity interests you. Especially your own creativity. Become creative in how you overrespond. In other words, make it your personal strategy and, as such, work it. Whenever something throws you off or in any way impresses you with singularity or significance, ask yourself “What’s a great way to overrespond?” It’s both a creative exercise and a big part of attracting success…and you will develop a skill-set that’s invaluable at untying the knots in problem situations.”
As for overresponding to Capitalism – a Love Story? My private clients are aware of one of my solutions which I announced to them yesterday and here is another…I am asking you to learn more about “dead peasants insurance” and support reversals in the laws that opened the door in the 1980’s to what I consider a highly immoral practice for the sake of profit. Please visit www.DeadPeasants.biz.
Last weekend I went to see Michael Moore’s “Capitalism – A Love Story” mostly because I was curious to know his views on how things got so messed up in the financial sector. True to form, Moore uses the camera like a blunt instrument. I got what I went for – information delivered in an entertaining way and I was laughing through the tears in my eyes. But I left the theatre deeply saddened and on the verge of feeling acute hopelessness for what lay ahead for many millions of hard working and honest people.
The book by my bedside this week is the “Portable Coach” by the late Thomas J. Leonard. One of my favourite, yet trickiest to grasp and employ, concepts he delivers in this book is about choosing not to overreact but to overrespond to all situations.
Overresponding is defined this way: discovering choices in action that are available, even though they might not be apparent in the moment. Knowing that you can discover several possible choices gets you past feeling threatened and lets you select the one with the most potential to spur your evolution.”
I was speaking with a client who hired me recently and she was talking about how difficult it can be to be “up”, positive and enthusiastic about her immediate future when her financial results are disappointing and a future was not looking not so rosy from where she was standing. The challenge was to help her find ways not to stuff her emotions (it’s not healthy and they never stay stuffed for long) but to find ways to overrespond to her situation by identifying 10 possible solutions or new courses of action. She would only implement a small number but striving to identify 10 was exercising her overresponding muscle…her creativity and problem solving ability.
This is not an easy task when you are stuck in overreacting but you can buck the trend and operate much differently than most of the people who “stream out of the movie theatre of life” and overrespond your way out of the most uncomfortable and difficult situations.
Thomas J. Leonard sums it up best “If you’re alive, creativity interests you. Especially your own creativity. Become creative in how you overrespond. In other words, make it your personal strategy and, as such, work it. Whenever something throws you off or in any way impresses you with singularity or significance, ask yourself “What’s a great way to overrespond?” It’s both a creative exercise and a big part of attracting success…and you will develop a skill-set that’s invaluable at untying the knots in problem situations.”
As for overresponding to Capitalism – a Love Story? My private clients are aware of one of my solutions which I announced to them yesterday and here is another…I am asking you to learn more about “dead peasants insurance” and support reversals in the laws that opened the door in the 1980’s to what I consider a highly immoral practice for the sake of profit. Please visit www.DeadPeasants.biz.
