Etikettarkiv: How

Be your best you

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Someone rubs you the wrong way. Or annoys the heck out of you. Makes you feel inferior. Or is cold as ice regardless of how loving you try to be, so you say Sod it and start to act less lovingly towards them.

Know the feeling? Been there?

I have.

But lately, I try to be my best me, regardless. Give it some thought, please. Think about the person you want to be. For you. And for others, someone specific or just people in general.

And then think about what is says about you, if you refrain from being your best you because of what someone else is doing or not doing, saying or not saying, how somewhat is acting or not acting.

And I mean really consider this. Why would you let someone else be the driver for who and how you chose to be in the world?

Best youIsn’t that really just absurd? Letting someone else, whose behaviour and action, whose words and reactions, you cannot in any way control or even influence, be the determining factor for your behaviour and action, your words and reactions? It just doesn’t make sense to me anymore. And I guess, giggling a little to myself now that I think about it, that it never did make sense, but I just never thought to question it. It was the way I believed the world was, outside/in, and now that I know that it’s inside/out, there is no sense to it whatsoever.

So really really think about who you are and how you are when you are your very best self. And then, speaking from personal experience, I encourage you to be your best self. Try it out. It’s amazing what changes it evokes, for me at least, and for those around me.

And yup, I fail. Fall flat on my face. It happens often. I behave, act, speak in suboptimal me-ways. But I would be doing that anyway. So why not be more conscious about trying to be my best me, as much as I can? For me, now, that is where I am coming from. I want to be my best me. Because that’s the me I want to be. Not because I want others to like me. Not because I need appreciation from others. Not because I think I’ll get more friends or success that way.

I want to be my best me simply because that’s the person I want to be.

Who and how are you when you are your best you?

The Era of Behaviour

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Have you discovered the RSA? If not, please check it out. I’ve listened to several of their events as podcasts these last weeks, and man are they ever thought provoking and mind boggling! Twice I’ve listened to this RSA event on The Era of Behaviour. It is extremely interesting, and I believe I’ll listen to it several more times. Reflecting. Thinking. Going deeper.

There is a video of the highlights that you can see here, but I urge you to listen to the entire podcast including the Q&As from the audience (including a tweet from my dear friend @LordSillion as well!):

What my head is spinning on right now is, to name a few, spheres of personal vs business, the word How as a noun, value based leadership and elevated behaviour. Many of these things I have spent time reflecting on before as well.

I spend a lot of time on the word Why, and the way Dov Seidman talks about How is in a sense a description of the way I think about Why. For me the How he explains is a How infused with a Why, i.e. a sense of value, of ethics, of a higher reason.

Well, as you can tell, I am not done here. My mind hasn’t settled anywhere, it’s just spinning. So, won’t you please listen to this talk on The Era of Behaviour, and tell me what you think about it? Perhaps your head starts to spin in ways I haven’t even begun to consider yet?