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So how come so many come to listen, learn and be inspired but do not use what they see and hear? If you listen to an informative and stimulating talk, what does that motivate you to do? Are people just wanting to be entertained? Nothing wrong with that, but this is a group of people who want to improve themselves – it is why they were at a conference and it is why you are reading this magazine, I expect.
I invite you to watch what you do with the content of whatever motivational talk you next hear, or piece of learning you read. Do you put it into action? If not, my advice is to break it down. See if you can choose a tiny part of it to work on, something achieveable, just somewhere to start. It doesn’t matter how small as long as it is something.
The good news is that we don’t need to to have natural talent to progress in our personal development. I am not a natural speaker; it took me years to feel comfortable on stage. If you are simply willing to try out, explore and act on the advice you have sought, you are already exceeding the norm. If 98% of people wanting to gain the same skills that I do don’t do the work necessary – well - I’m there, and all I need to do is just keep at it.... and the same for you. That makes me feel more confident just knowing that I am doing the things that will make the difference, and confidence arises with each little step I take.
Once I would never have even asked a question at a conference, and now I speak at them myself. While speaking is probably not your thing, we all have something we want to be better at. The same principle, of acting on the expert advice we seek repeatedly, gaining little pieces of experience each time, applies. The change doesn’t happen by osmosis, it happens by YOU.
I looked up the meaning of ‘confidence’. The definition that caught my eye was ‘the feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something ‘. Who better to rely on than yourself - steadily, quietly practicing tiny steps towards what you want to acheive?
Copyright Cathy Towers 2017
Cathy Towers is a BACP Senior Accredited Practitior and a fully certificated Zero Balancer.
In May she is hosting a morning of short professional talks at the Mind and Body Forum on healing the lives of disrupted children. The talks are followed by questions and answers.
01395 278437 or 07989 564660 Clinic:
www.exetermindandbody.com
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There is a myth in the men’s world – ie the media and therefore much of male culture - that needs destroying. Simply put, it is that in order to be attractive to women, men need to have a six pack, drive a sport’s car and earn substantial amounts of money.
No, men are more attractive women if they understand the difference between sex and intimacy and everything that blurs those lines. And this is exactly what Jan Day’s Living Tantra courses do. “Sex is very different to intimacy,” says Jan, “and society confuses the
26 London & South East Connection - April/July 2017
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