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Before you start modelling others behaviour I believe it is essential to know who yourself. What are your strengths? Not only what you are good at but what makes you feel strong and competent. What gives you energy and resilience?
One size does not fit all. Sometimes in order to fit in and be accepted we put aside our own unique experience, values and loose touce with our inner resources.
If you are feeling tired, unmotivated, lacking in enthusiasm the chances are it is time to take stock of who you are and who you want to be.
To recognise what are the inner resources that you have that make you feel strong, competent, enthusiastic and at your best. Then to incorporate or experiment with their successful strategies of those you admire; their skills, beliefs, attitudes and values.
More significant for me, is the importance of knowing your beliefs, attitudes and values. Which one's are working for you and which do you need to change. Then look at someone you admire and observe what it is that they do to achieve the results that you would like.
I would like to be more courageous.
I don't want to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro, although I admire people who do. I want to be courageous in trying out new challenges. Speaking out for things that matter to me. Being the best I can be as a mother, a friend, a human being.
I can model aspects of Nelson Mandela, a sister at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage in Pondicherry and Melinda Gates, my girlfriend who has battled cancer and many others. It is knowing what others do to find their inner strength and practicing it and adding it to my own resources.
I would love to hear how this has worked for you.
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” Zig Ziglar
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