Reframing Mess | Companion | Life Brief
Hello there! Welcome to my weekly LEAPS.
You’re receiving this email because you subscribed to my weekly Wednesday feature or our mailing list. Every Wednesday, I share 5 things using our LEAPS approach:
Learn: something new or an idea
Energy: an energy (good or bad) word and it’s meaning
Action: something to do
Processing: a question to consider
Shout out: something or someone that I want to celebrate or acknowledge
LEARN
Something Worth Sharing
Reframing Mess
Last week I was feeling really chuffed with myself. It’s rare that I have chance to pre-write the LEAPS emails before the last minute - but I did! I was travelling on a train and seized the opportunity. I closed my laptop and settled into the journey. I then unexpectedly spotted an influx of orders for my visual of Chimp Paradox. I realised that somehow I’d messed up!!
You guys all got a double dose of LEAPS last week - because the scheduling process didn’t happen as it should have. I spent the rest of the journey feeling incredibly annoyed - not as a result of you getting two visuals to download, but the simple fact that I made a mistake. My anger and upset was with myself.
As I arrived into London, I’d managed to have a talk with myself. The bigger thing to focus on was that you’d received LEAPS, you got to download an extra free piece and I could regroup and think about my ‘learning’.
We all mess up - no matter who we are, or how it happens. The skill is the ability to self-regulate and learn from these things quickly. Beating myself up was my default reaction, but reframing it as an opportunity was the magic that allowed me to move past the mess-up.
ENERGY
An emotion or energy; a stand-out word / s
Companion
For the explanation of this week’s choice of word, you’ll need to read on to the ACTION.
The word COMPANION is from Late Latin COMPANIO, literally "bread fellow, messmate". It is formed from com "with, together" + panis "bread".
Who knew that the word is along the lines of ‘the person you want to break bread with’!
ACTION
Something small that you can do that might make a big difference
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My action for you this week is to grab yourself a GLAS Confidence and Clarity Desk Companion (hence the ENERGY word!) - and enjoy a loyalty discount of 25% off (for this week only).
Enter LOYALLEAPERS when you check out.
PROCESSING
A question to think about and consider (you can discuss this with someone or write your thoughts down)
“How deliberate am I being in my life?”
Are you drifting or being deliberate in all areas of your life?
I’d love for you to send me your own stories / thoughts about this. Drop me a line with your answer / thoughts on this question
SHOUT OUT
Who / what I think deserves recognition - my gratitude or to be celebrated.
Making Mistakes
The greatest high performing cultures all have an ability to handle mistakes being made - in fact, not just handle them, but also grow because of them. We all worry about the embarrassment of messing up, but it’s usually more about what’s in our heads than the reality. Children make mistakes in order to learn - so why don’t we hold on to this? Shout out to making mistakes and being human.
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LEAPS is a process used by our team and clients all the time - and even my own family on a daily basis.
I’ll be sharing a set of LEAPS each week with you and encourage you to do your own version:
L: what have you learned?
E: what’s your energy / feeling word
A: what’s one thing you need to do?
P: what are you thinking / processing?
S: who or what can you shout out?
