Ooooooh! It feels like I’m going through a new acceleration phase! It seems like the teachings of these last three weeks are just launching me into life like a rocket!

Well, of course!!! What did you expect?! Precisely these teachings, the use of these words and concepts directly appeal to what I’m personally craving for!! Mandino calling to our potential, Haenel making our limits vanish thanks to this cocktail of desire and concentration, the hero’s journey, the call for each one of us to express her/his uniqueness and through this, to fulfill her/his purpose in life, helping others, being the influencer s/he naturally is! This appeals to me!

It feels like I am in kind of a frenzy state. I am busy 24/7 progressing on my goals. Yes, 24/7 because one of my goals is to sleep 7 hours per night.. Progressing on nearly all my goals at once! And I have many. Many! Too many? Probably. Actually, certainly! But, does my potential cry for mercy? NO, not yet. Or perhaps I don’t hear it… actually, I feel at times mentally exhausted. But I keep going. I have registered to trainings at work on all aspects of digital skills, on top of the training to start learning Spanish, with a view to the job that I will start in July and for which I also need to learn the subject matter. All this on top of my current job, my family, the MKE and – mainly – the big project that I’m developing outside work!

What about you? did you also start so many projects at once? How do you feel? Or are you more reasonable, realistic, which could lead to perseverence and more efficiency in the long term? What is your experience now?

Watch out, Maïlys! You know all too well the risks that come with this euphoric and frenzy state! Because in me, desire to accomplish is so huge sometimes, that only my body can stop me, or worse, my mental stops me as it just stops functioning for a while, until I get back on my feet again. But perhaps my mindfulness practice will help me seeing the red lights before it is too late.

Oops, i think I suddenly see a small red light flashing… ok, i will slow down….. a tiny little bit for now… ; – p

« Where is my magnifying glass??

- There, in your concentration.

- What? Sorry, but where is this?

- There, in your relaxation.

- Pfew, thank you! I could not see where I was going. Cause actually, I couldn’t see where I was. Alright, I’m gonna sit then, see myself from within, and therefore « be », which will allow me to know where I’m going and to see how I’m getting there.

- Excellent! You‘re making good progress! But tell me: how will you see how to get there?

- Well, by being the Observer, I suppose!

- Indeed. And you may only be the Observer if you relax. »

You’ve just read a summary of what went on in my brain when reading Haenel lesson 17. This is such an empowering feeling! With the MKE, it is as if I started to see more clearly than I could see before… putting all the bits and pieces together, seeing the greater picture but at the same time identifying more precisely and more easily what was in for me in this great (great!) picture.

When I am relaxed, I just am. And as I have defined my purpose (more or less, I’m getting there, as my DMP progresses), I can see!

I can see what was already visible,  although I was not always able to identify it before. That is, I can see the resources available to realise my purpose. If in a meadow full of varied flowers, only a variety of these flowers is helpful to me, it is as if these flowers were now appearing before my eyes! I don’t have to look for them anymore. On top of that, new such flowers are brought to me from another meadow,  because I have asserted my needs and people bring me these resources (possibly I get what I gave them at some point, or there are just being kind).

I can see what is NOT visible. That is, with my brain, I can for example understand why challenges and problems occur, so that I tackle them at their root, and these obstacles do not to occur again (see my previous post).

With these resources and these victories, I can see my power. And this boosts my self-confidence!

As a virtuous circle, self-confidence helps me relax… so that I can better concentrate…and better see.

Mailys

A recipe to succeed in my work.

In the last two years, I experienced a few difficulties at work. I observed that the persons who were getting the highest positions or who were considered the brightest ones, often happened to be the most arrogant ones. I then got to think that the system I was in was rewarding only those types of people, which would probably lead me to failure, as I would neither be willing nor able to follow this path.

But with the MKE, I started thinking that I was entitled to behave in accordance with my personality, shamelessly and assertively. I starting believing that I did not have to become arrogant to have my work appreciated. And the effects were positive.

Now, with Scroll IV in “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, I believe even more that, not only I am entitled to by myself at work, but also, that this precisely can lead me to success.

Og Mandino provides us with the recipe for this:

• Ingredient 1: my uniqueness has value. I am aware of it and I will use it and show it

I will place my uniqueness on display in the market place. I will proclaim it, yea, I will sell it.

• Ingredient 2: I increase my knowledge of my business (expertise, linked to competence), and I increase my knowledge of mankind (useful to understand others and interact with them) and of myself (useful to progress)

I will increase my knowledge of mankind, myself and the goods I sell

• Ingredients 3 and 4: I pay attention to the words I use and I improve them, and I improve my manners and graces

I will practice, and improve, and polish the words I utter to sell my goods

also will I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces.

These last two ingredients are tools to get my peculiarities accepted, and even admired or at least valued. Words and graces present my peculiarities and my uniqueness with their good angle. Also, paying attention to the words I say regarding myself (inner talk) are crucial for my self-confidence and in turn for the way people see me.

What a relief, to find out that I am allowed to be myself and still succeed! And so far, it seems to work…

This MKE week is amazingly rich, this impresses me much!

I particularly love the  idea that our potential is unlimited, yet not fully used. This energises me and gives me confidence that I can start many of the activities I desire at once, rather than waiting to create the time for each one of them. Realistic? … Euh.. i don’t know. I’ll tell you once I have experimented this…

Here are but a few of this week’s ideas on the unlimited potential:

First, Og Mandino, with this funny metaphor of our potential crying for mercy! “I have unlimited potential. Only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry proportion of my muscles do I flex. A hundredfold or more can I increase my accomplishments of yesterday.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.“

Then, Haanel, whiches pushes us to make use of the latent knowledge that we hold: “knowledge does not apply itself. … our actions are not governed by knowledge, but by custom, precedent and habit. … knowledge unused passes from the mind, … the value of the information is in the application of the principle.”

Another of Haanel’s teachings is huge as it gives us tools to develop our potential: the idea that we should use obstacles or problems as challenges from which to draw a lesson (wisdom) which, if applied, will make us grow, thus preventing the same kind of problem to arise again:

All conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth.

Og Mandino says it as well and encourages us to see through problems in this way: “I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think and now I know a great secret of life for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise”. This idea was actually already clear in scroll 2.

So much more is in this week 15, and I might as well get back to it in one of my next posts. But on the unlimited potential, I would like to thank again the MKE team for having developed this great idea of the makeover with 13 weeks to focus on successive virtues. A great process I am eager to go through…