The Intention Difference | Trust | Thrive
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
The Intention Difference
I have been steadily getting more and more annoyed and frustrated by something someone keeps doing to me. Now this thing they are doing is a small and relatively insignificant thing - but nevertheless, it is really grinding my gears.
I was sharing this with a trusted confidant recently and that I couldn’t understand why it even mattered to me, let alone increasingly angering me.
As so often happens, the sharing of feelings and thoughts with someone trusted led to my lightbulb moment. I explained that there was another person that was also doing the same thing, but for some reason I didn’t find that person annoying. The ‘a-ha!’ realisation was that I strongly felt that one person had no harmful intention towards me in what they were doing while the other - the upsetting one - had an unknown - and definitely untrusted intention.
It made me think about how lots of people can all do the same thing, but we often feel differently about the action - all because of the intention difference. As leaders, this is something vitally important to understand. Making our intentions clear and sticking to them is key to trust and creating safe environments.
ENERGY
An emotion or energy; a stand-out word / s
Trust
Trust is a word we say and hear a great deal, but what is the meaning?
From 12th century, it came to mean "reliance on the veracity, integrity, or other virtues or sound principles of someone or something; religious faith".
It is believed to ordinate from Old Norse word TRAUST meaning "to help, confidence, protection, support". Trust is intangible, but very much represented by behaviours. It requires faith, hope and belief.
ACTION
Something small that you can do that might make a big difference
Look At Your Intentions
Take 10 minutes to really think - and if possible, write down - big things in your life (people, projects, situations etc) and what your intention is towards each of these.
PROCESSING
A question to think about and consider (you can discuss this with someone or write your thoughts down)
“What examples do you have when you felt the results of harmful or unclear intentions? What did this teach you?”
Think about your life, work and relationships - when have you experienced hidden or harmful intentions? Did your instincts tell you something wasn’t right? What did you learn from this experience?
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.
My Journey
Last week marked 16 years since closing our family’s 106 year old business. I simply want to shout out my journey; my journey of joining it, working my way through it, running it, doing an MBO, closing it and everything that has happened since. Shout out to my personal journey.
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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?
