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How can I help you?
Today I woke up thinking about helping people.
Just before going to bed last night I’d been on a call with a close family member overseas to listen to them talk through an important presentation they are going to give to a large audience, aimed at encouraging and inspiring others by telling the story of their journey. In under half an hour they gave me a run-through of the presentation, then answered some questions I had, such as their “why” for doing it and their core message (“what is the single most important thing you want your audience to take from this?”). From that, I then gave them some structuring thoughts to consider in order to potentially polish their already great talk. Today they will send me the latest script for any final thoughts, then tomorrow they will deliver it.
After that call I was SO energised I knew I’d have to sit up quite late to simply decompress and slow down ready for sleep. Why? I love to help people, it is my Purpose, my Intent in life, as expressed by my Intent statement of #MakingPotentialPossible that the artist Hugh McLeod so beautifully expressed in the commission above that he did for me years ago.
To be a little more focussed, whilst I am certainly always there to actively help people with tasks and more, where I have learned to focus myself is in ways similar to the story above, where I can listen deeply, reflect…
