Copy
A LI’L BIT OF THE OL’ WATER AEROBICS AMBITION!


I have a good friend who started teaching water aerobics because she knew that teaching would routinely get her to the gym.  I’m reflecting on this as I sit here just past 10:00 pm on a Saturday night.  After tending the land this afternoon and watching an exceptional movie with my folks this evening, I have plenty of reasons to believe I’m tired, except I’m not really.  After all, to celebrate Saturday, I woke up late this morning after a good night’s sleep. 

Yet, watching the minutes tick away, I find myself contemplating whether to go to bed.  I must say, I have a sneaking suspicion that I’m much more procrastination tired than tired tiredProcrastination tired is a very technical term–so technical in fact, that  I just made it up–that means one would rather go to sleep than do the next task one thinks he or she really ought to do.

 

Have you ever felt procrastination tired?    

 

As to why I may feel procrastination tired?  My guess is because I want to make the pleasure synapses of your brain fire on all cylinders with my utterly sublime prose by composing the world's most perfect newsletter.

Yep, the two terms most associated with my business are “Do your Imperfect Best” and “Awkwardly Awesome,” and yet, I want to avoid writing this newsletter because I don’t want it to be any less than perfect and the mere prospect of doing a bad job has me feeling all shades of Uncomfortably Awkward.

Mind you, I didn’t adopt these terms on account of my deep love for being imperfect and awkward.  In school, I strove to get the answers right when the teacher called on me, even if it didn’t always happen.   In gym class, I would have loved nothing more than to be graceful and athletic.  Instead, I had to settle for thoroughly uncoordinated, quickly distracted and easily frustrated.  Come to think of it, I would have lept tall buildings with a single bound to make all the young ladies swoon.  But being a 7th grade stud just wasn’t in my cards, so by default I became the weird kid who paced around the outskirts of the gym, so distracted by his own anxiety that he caught the occasional basketball with his face.  What do you think of that, ladies?

 

Have you felt uncomfortably awkward?

 

If I had been more self-reflective at the time, I might have noticed that the more I abhorred being imperfect and awkward, the more awkward and imperfect I became.  As Carl Jung contended, “whatever you resist will not only persist, but will grow in size.” 

So, yes, I encourage “Doing your imperfect best” and proudly embracing your “Awkwardly Awesomeness,” partly for the same reason that my friend teaches water aerobics every week.  I recognize I need to get to the gym of self-acceptance, self-love and persistence each and every day.

This particular newsletter will never know existence if I am so insistent on it being perfect that I never write it.  So, the fact that you are reading it now is confirmation that “doing my imperfect best” won out over “doing my perfect”…at least this time around.

 

I’m curious to know, are there areas in your own life where you’re making yourself “procrastination tired?”

What about areas where you are slowing your progress because of your insistence on getting all your t’s crossed, i’s dotted, ducks in a row and everything 100% right?  

 

I mean do ducks really care about dotted i’s and t’s anyway?

 

Can I ask where you might be withholding your brilliant, Awkwardly Awesome, self because you want so badly to be the cool kid in this unwieldy dance called life?

I ask, because, for most of my life I somehow imagined I was the only one who tango’d with such obstacles, but the more my speech impediment ages as sure as fine wine, the more I realize that most–if not all–of us deal with the same stuff.

Inside, we all so badly want to get the answers to life just right and look cool doing it.


So take comfort that you’re not alone and join me in finding a li’l bit of that ol’ water aerobics ambition.  Let’s get our butts to the Imperfect Best Awkwardly Awesome gym everyday, even if some days it’s highly awkward and imperfect getting there!

 
NEXT WEEK ON THE PODCAST!


LEARN TO THRIVE BEING OF SERVICE TO OTHERS

In his Tedx talk which I highly recommend, Jon invites us to start with who. He explains, "Starting with who is all about thinking about the other people who you are trying to impact, that you want to help, and rather than just talking about ourselves helping them." With profound ideas like this, you might be surprised to find out that Jon creates marketing messages that grow businesses. As a certified StoryBrand Guide, Jon uses his love for people to help his client understand that by putting their customers at the center of their business, they can make the critical connections necessary to succeed in business today.

Sounds like an amazing man to learn from. I just met Jon recently, through a friend, so I'm as excited to learn from him as hopefully you are.

Join us and let's see what we can learn from Jon next Wednesday.


 

Recent episodes you may have missed since the last newsletter:

• THE UNLIKELY YOGI w/ Brentan Schellenbach (Click Here)

• THE PORTRAIT FUR-TOGRAPHER w/ Dave Veit (Click Here)

• GOOD TODAY BETTER TOMORROW w/ Dan Johnson (Click Here)

 
 
Click Here for the FULL Awkwardly Awesome Podcast Episode List!
 

Don't forget to follow me on The Socials!

Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
Twitter
LinkedIn
Download My Interactive Book!
See My Imperfect TEDx Talk!
View this email in your browser
Facebook
YouTube
Link
Twitter
Website
Email
Copyright © 2021 Heroic Yes! Productions, All rights reserved.


Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp