Learning From Your Heroes
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My daughter, who is 4 in July, is obsessed with superheroes. And I mean obsessed. Her absolute favourite is Spiderman and she just loves the whole good vs evil thing, helping others in need type scenario. (He is a permanent imaginary fixture in our home. We have Spiderman in the car with us, at mealtimes - where we have to set an extra place for him, at our swimming lessons…….) It’s interesting at even her young age how she measures her own behaviour
– and that of other people – against whether Spiderman would
do that. Interestingly, who we hold up as our own heroes can tell us a lot about who or what we aspire to be and what we hold as being important. What we admire in others tends to reveal the qualities, skills and attributes we’d like to develop ourselves. |
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Identify 5 people whom you admire, respect or you would class as a hero. They can be factual or fictional; alive or dead; known personally to you or not
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For each person, list down 5 qualities, or attributes, or talents they posses
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Now look at your heroes list of qualities. What are the common themes coming through – i.e. a quality or talent that is mentioned more than once?
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Choose the one which has been mentioned most. It might calmness; passion; creativity; compassion; energy. Write it in BOLD letters in the middle of a new page
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On a scale of 1 – 10, how much of this quality/talent/attribute do you currently display in the work you do? What’s contributed to the score you’ve got so far?
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Look at your week of work ahead and everything that is already scheduled. Using the rest of the paper, write down as many actions you can think of, which would enable you to move one step closer to 10 in this area which is so important to you. It doesn’t matter if they’re small actions – just list as many as you can
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Choose three. Ask yourself, “If I were to complete these 3 actions over the next few days, how might it positively impact how I feel about my work?” If you get a good feeling – go do them! If you don’t, play around with some of the other actions, until you get a sense of which ones you really want to do, which will absolutely contribute to you feeling more enthused, excited, passionate, calm, about your work
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You’ve guessed it – go do them. And enjoy your results!
Until next time, enjoy feeding your flame!
Jenny Flintoft
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