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Suggestion (for all of us):

I am listening (re-listening since I need to hear things many times) to a SpeakerNetNews teleseminar with Patrick Donadio.  I listened to it about 6 months ago and of course, now I’m hearing things I am sure were not on there the first time I listened.  And one of those “new” items prompted this post…

One of his suggestions is to create a “Belief Journal.”  Here are some suggestion questions to ask and answer in your journal (and I’m going to do so in mine):

• What do you believe about yourself?
• What do you believe about your marketplace?
• What do you believe about your products?
• What do you believe about your clients?
• What do you believe about the world, etc?

There are many different questions that you can answer.  But the main idea is that you are getting to the core of what you believe–so they you can look at that and how it’s making an impact on your work (and personal life, too, of course). 

Just yesterday I was talking with someone whose business is slow right now (she’s an organizer).  She said, “But it’s always slow at this time of year.”  That is her belief and so I would think that is having an impact on whether her business is always slow at the beginning of the year.  In my mind, organizing businesses are booming at the beginning of the year with all the publicity about Getting Organized Month and people “turning over a new leaf” for being organized for the next year, etc. 

So, take some time this weekend to think this through and write in the journal you received when you joined MEMc.  See what you learn and discover and are affirmed by.  Feel free to comment on this post.

Posted by Meggin | 3/21/08

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