Happy Friday!! What are you plans for this weekend? I love the energy of a Friday, it always feels like there is anticipation in the air of what is to come.
People are happier and slow down more. Here in London we are having the most beautiful weather. Hot and sunny and everyone is grabbing it with both hands and making the most of it.
This week I was speaking with a client about a certain technique I have learned from Stephen Covey in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
He has developed a framework which enables us to identify what we can and cannot influence.
This is MASSIVE for your stress levels, your confidence and your self-esteem. IT REALLY WORKS
The influence circle represents all of the things that you can make a difference to in any situation or area of your life.
The concern circle represents everything that causes you concern in a situation or area of your life that you can’t do anything about.
If we fill our conscious attention with things in the circle of concern then we have less thinking space left to notice anything we can change
Of course the opposite is also true. If you are consciously focusing on all the things you can change in a situation or area of your life , then the space in your thinking for the aspects that you worry about but can’t change reduces.
Action:
Map out you circle of influence and circle of control with everything you can and cannot control.
Did anything surprise you?
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A focus on what you can change fuels confidence and an increased state of confidence will fuel the sense that you can influence the world around you |
Jax