I was inspired to reflect on my early education experiences while reading Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential, and realized that without all of those challenges in school, I wouldn’t be who I am today.
This turned painful memories into something more. They are valuable experiences to the path I am on now and have built up my resilience, and now looking back, I feel more confident knowing what I went through led to where I am now.
I encourage you to reflect on your past and try some re-framing. What are your hard-earned lessons? Can you see how they fit into your success story?
Transcription:
So I’m in the middle of reading a really good book right now, it’s by Adam Grant, it’s called Hidden Potential, and the chapter that I listened to last night, and I really just want to share this with you, is it really got me thinking about
how grateful I am for all of the challenges that were my childhood. How grateful I am for the struggles that I actually had in school, and how hard I had to fight for a variety of things, because if I hadn’t had that childhood, if I hadn’t had those experiences with the school system and in learning, I don’t know that I would be the avid learner that I am today. I don’t know that I would be an entrepreneur today. I don’t know that I would be as successful that as I am today. I know I would not have the types of resilience that I have.
So what if we take those experiences that have happened that were less than favorable at the time, that at that time we wrote in our book of memories, ‘this is awful, this is horrible,’ what if we take those and rewrite the narratives of how we remember them. What if we reframe them in the context of, without those, I don’t get to have all of this, and sometimes even in the middle of the struggle it’s still saying, ‘I have all of that. I have learned from all of that. I can apply it in the struggle, and I get to move forward and move up.’ So, how might you reframe some of the parts and pieces of your past
that maybe you’re lugging around and thinking ‘boy, this really held me back’ when instead maybe framed differently might instead say, ‘wow, because of this I was able to do that. Because of this, I know how to do that.’ When you re-frame things like that it opens up, I promise you, it opens up a world of possibilities mostly in the fact that your worth goes up and your confidence goes up, because you stop believing that you were a victim of circumstances
or that you are less than or not enough. Anytime we struggle with that we wind up with the less than, not good enough, which creams just totally deflates that worth and that confidence scale. So when you reframe things
you actually transition them into a confidence boost and a worthy boost. It’s really that simple, so I’m experiencing that. I’m enjoying that right now. A pretty big confidence boost and a nice worthy boost in the fact that if I had not experienced those things and and so many other I really wouldn’t be here today. I wouldn’t be encouraging you to find your path in the way that you are, so I’m grateful for all of it. It just is what it is, not good, not bad. It all adds to the journey and the outcome.
I’m JoyGenea Unconventional leadership coach international diversity coach and proud different thinker. If you could use some assistance learning more about your brain, your process, your style, and how to level up on love on in ways you did not even imagine, I’m the coach you want to have a conversation with. Thank you and bye now.