The Recovery Need | Share | Shoot For The Moon
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 Recovery Need
I am a very proud mentor to a wonderful young woman who inspired my ‘learn’ this week. We were talking about recovery and how important it is when ‘stuff’ happens to us. I joked that people often picture recovery as laying in bed with the covers on us - just waiting for our situation to improve. Recovery can certainly involve time - and patience - but in my experience it also involves many other things, many of which can be tough.
When I had my hip replaced I went through recovery. My recovery developed and was organic, it was painful, it required commitment and many knock-backs. When I share the story of closing our 106 year old family business, I talk about the recovery process and how I put myself out into the local business community, spoke at universities, did hundreds of interviews, researched, developed intellectual property and at times, cried a whole heap. My recovery was messy and lengthy. As tough as recovery may be, it is vital, because the alternative is far worse: to not recover.
Every day we need to recover; each day we go to bed to sleep. Our beloved (!) mobile devices need to recover when they get plugged in to recharge. We could perhaps do with learning not to see recovery as weak, but as an essential part of life.
ENERGY
An emotion or energy; a stand-out word / s
Share
SHARE is from Old English word SCEARU meaning "a cutting, shearing, tonsure; a part or division, a piece cut off". This originated from Proto-Indo-European SKER meaning simply "to cut".
When we share anything - literally or figuratively - we have to cut it into parts. This can require us to use a knife to physically cut something, or emotionally we have to cut ties to let something go.
ACTION
Something small that you can do that might make a big difference
Be Playful
The next time you face something tough or challenging, I’d like you to consider bringing play into it. If you need to clear your cupboards out, how can you make it more playful?
PROCESSING
A question to think about and consider (you can discuss this with someone or write your thoughts down)
“How good am I at receiving kindness and compliments?”
I’d like to think that most people are very happy being kind to others - and offering pleasant compliments - but how good are we all at being on the receiving end of these things? How gracious are you when someone does something kind for you or offers you a compliment? Are you comfortable?
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.
Being a Mentor
I first became a formal mentor for someone in about 2007. I quickly learned that in being a mentor, you are also a mentee. The relationship is very much reciprocal. I have had several mentees over the years and still love doing it. A big shout out to mentorship and being someone’s mentor. If you’ve thought about putting yourself forwards to mentor someone - do it!
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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?
