Women in the LEAD

WOMEN: Moving Out in Front

Hello to everyone... I feel so behind at the moment!  Do you ever feel pulled in too many directions? It is hard to reshape one's priorities. I'm not sure how you feel, but being behind makes me feel so inadequate. 

In my filled desk drawer, I came across Maryanne Williamson's message years ago to help me step out in front of my feelings of "inadequacy" and get grounded in a more positive truth. I first heard Maryanne's  message when it was quoted by Nelson Mandela's at his inauguration as President of the Republic of South Africa:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

How will you put yourself out in front of feelings of inadequacy?

How will you let your light shine?

Debbe

Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
Home of Women in the Lead
Author, Putting Our Differences to Work

Change Is Possible

“What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.  This, too, contradicts some of the most ingrained assumptions we hold about ourselves and each other.  We like to think of ourselves as autonomous and inner-directed, that who we are and how we act is something permanently set by our genes and our temperament….To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear, and how acutely sensitive we are to even the smallest details of everyday life.  That’s why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable, because it is the nature of all of us to be volatile and inexplicable.”

Malcolm Gladwell  “The Tipping Point”

Change is possible.  Believe it!  Experience it!  Happy New Year.

Maureen Simon

Your Actions Yield Your Results

“The responses and results that you receive from anyone, in any situation, are triggered by the stimuli you provide.  The stimuli are your behaviors.  This is one way people can get to know you…When you choose the behavior (the action), you choose the consequences.”

Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.  “Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters”

I guess it’s time to notice the messages that we send out.  The world is going through a period of extreme heightened awareness.  We are picking up on messages, feelings and intuition in each and every exchange.  Notice the messages that you are sending.  What results are they attracting?  What is the message that you are sending out as people get to know you?  Try a new approach today.  You never know what the result might be.

Maureen Simon