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Do you wish you could deal with change more effectively?
Live in the present moment?
Be more confident in situations where you feel out of control?
Trust yourself to think on your feet?
As a professional improviser, I’m always finding connections between the skills that improvisers practice and use and the skills that many of us strive to cultivate in our professional and personal lives.
It’s stunning how just 6 well-invested minutes can transform you.
Once in a while I come across a video that breaks open my mind—or my heart—in the most wonderful way.
Each of the videos that follow has the power to create a huge shift in me and in many of my clients.
I turn to them for different reasons—when I need comfort; when I need to be brave; when I need to look beyond my own world; when I need to snap out of a pity party; when I want to get out of my head, get out of the future, and get out of the past, and just be right here in this day.
The next time you need a shift, give yourself a 6- to 22-minute gift and watch one of these videos.
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Do you struggle to communicate with confidence?
Do networking and dating make you suuuuper-nervous or exhausted?
Are you intimidated by striking up conversations with new people?
Do you wonder how some people make it look so easy?
You are not alone.
For LOTS of us, talking to people can be scary!
But there’s no doubt about it: relationships are central to everything in our lives, and communication is central to every relationship.
That’s why one of the most important and fundamental steps you can take to improve your relationships, career, and your life is to be a confident, powerful, and effective communicator.
Good news! I just taught a free class on this subject, and I’m sharing it with you today.
What are you avoiding because you feel like a total newbie?
What physical pain are you not getting checked out, because it’s scary to think of what might actually be wrong?
What unmade phone call or inquiry is draining your energy?
How would it feel to have that action behind you?
What would you be able to do with that extra energy?
How can you water yourself?
If you hang out in the in-between place of a transition for a while, it can start to feel like you don’t even know who you are anymore.
A drawn-out period of “figuring it out”—or the even less-empowered period that you may experience before you are taking active steps to figure it out—can get exhausting and draining to the point that it leaves you feeling like a muted, immobile version of yourself.
I’m reminded of a passage in one of my favorite YA books, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau.
It’s a fantastic and brilliantly written story of a boy and girl growing up in an isolated city that is struggling with dire shortages of food and electricity, and working to find a way to save their city before the lights go out forever.
In this scene, Clary, a greenhouse worker, talks with Lina, a teenager.
“Clary put a hand in her pocket and drew something out. ‘Look,’ she said. In the palm of her hand was a white bean. ‘Something in this seed knows how to make a bean plant. How does it know that?’
