Shoveling Coal in the Boiler Room or Captain of the Ship?
Who is in charge? You or your overwhelm? You or your unruly kids? You or your worry? You or your monkey mind? You or your doubts? You or your addiction to approval? It's all DRAMA.
Where Would You Be Without Your Drama?
It doesn’t matter how outwardly successful you are if you are secretly ruled by your obsessions, addictions, and drama.
In Business, there is a learning curve, but even if you never never master business, there is always someone to fix your mistakes. Where you are weak, you can find the right partners to fill in the gap. In business, money can solve a lot of problems. You can hire people to do your sales and marketing. You can hire someone to handle your human resources issues. Even if you fail as a business, you can hire an attorney to clean up the mess. It's true even in your personal life.
What Money CAN do for You and the One Thing Money CAN'T Buy
If you make enough money you can hire all kinds of people to do almost anything for you, whether it’s raising your children, mowing your yard or fixing your meals. Perhaps that is why so many people are so obsessed with money that they will do almost anything to get it.
Money solves a lot of problems, that is for sure, but...there is one thing that money can't buy and one thing that no one can do for you, and that is your inner work. Your inner work is what builds your foundation for real success. You live your entire life from within the confines of your head, and when your head and heart are out of alignment you will experience drama. Your life will be incongruent. You will suffer silently worrying about your value, about your security, about your place in the world and about your purpose. You will compare yourself, you will be consumed with outside circumstances, and you will be the victim of your own mentality, the economy or someone else's definition of success. You will experience a life of drama no matter how outwardly successful you present yourself to the world.
You Can't Hide From Drama
Before the advances in technology it was easy to hide the internal drama. Due to the advances in technology and social media, your life is on display. Just a decade ago almost anyone could hide a drinking problem, money problems, shady business practices and issues of integrity. Now, not so much. We are all on "Big Brother."
You have surely experienced the phenomenon of looking at someone's life thinking they have it all, only to find out they are suffering from drama.
Look at the examples in the news from just the last several years. Stories about celebrities, sports heroes and political figures. People who seemed to have it all, from stars like Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, to sports figures like Tiger Woods, to high profile political figures like Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner. There are new spotlight cases virtually every month.
No matter what your position in life, how much others love and admire you, or how much you have achieved outwardly, Drama can ruin your life and your business. Eventually you must come face to face with your drama. You must be willing to do your inner work. and look at the man (or the woman) in the mirror. You must tell yourself the truth so you can step into a new truth.
Drama is the Leak in Your Boat
It may start out as a slow leak at first, barely noticeable. You avoid it. You bail it out. Then it gets bigger and bigger.
You can paddle as fast as you want,(working longer and harder) but you aren’t going to get to your magical island as long as water keeps filling up your boat.
You can deny the leak, meditate, pray, focus on the positive or hire a coach to improve your rowing abilities, but until you admit you have a leak you are at the mercy of the hole in your boat. You can blame the boat maker but that doesn't close the hole in the boat
You can take massive action (LEVERAGE) and still nothing works. Neither a motor, a sail, the wind or a team of rowers can help you get to your island as long as you have a hole in your boat! Until you identify and plug the hole you will struggle. Drama keeps you from reaching your potential. The big question you must ask yourself is this:
Where are the "Drama Signs" in Your Life?
Drama in your business makes you feel like you are shoveling coal in the boiler room instead of navigating the ship.The signs are exhaustion, low morale, power struggles, absenteeism and of course, financial problems.
Drama in your personal life shows up in physical and emotional ways: bickering with your spouse, out of control kids with no boundaries, stress, overwhelm and feeling stuck in the middle, like you can't give enough of yourself to make everyone else happy.
There is Good News
Drama is an indicator that transformation is taking place. Change and reinvention always bring opportunity for spiritual and transformational growth personally and professionally.
Drama in any area of life impacts the other areas, and that is why using the Stop Your Drama Methodology to improve one area of your life will also significantly impact the other areas of your life.
Whether your drama is more personal in nature or more professional, The 8 Steps of the Stop Your Drama Methodology will help you navigate through change and reinvent any area of your life that is no longer working. So register for the mini-lesson to get a glimpse of the Stop Your Drama Methodology, also known as The 8 Steps of Empowerment.
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