It was interesting in my casual work on Sunday seeing the news and the reflecting back on when we went into lockdown due to covid and the uprising of a lot of conspiracy theorists. I don’t like the term conspiracy theory sometimes as I can see how it can just mean different from the mainstream view.

I personally find the whole Bill Gates trying to take over the world and the 5G idea to be nonsense though personally but each to there own.

I think its interesting how external events can be an extra trigger for what is inside already. I’ve noticed it at funerals I’ve been to to bring to attention a more day to day affair.

Also it has been positive I think in the aftermath to George Floyd how lots of uproar and promotion of change is being motivated as well as racism coming out of the closet more. I realised personally how I need to pay more attention to race and have been doing my weekly donation the last couple of weeks to Black lives matter.

In terms of Covid what I felt what a realisation of the management of fear. Although I did not resonate with the conspiracy theorists I do resonate with the idea of being kept in fear to some degree and how it is vital to always maintain a sense of self mastery over ourselves.

I really resonated with some interviews done by Tony Robbins around this. I’d recommend him as a follow on Youtube. He did one with an award winning Chemist. There are also a series of interviews in the aftermath of George Floyd. One is with a KKK converter and one is with a white policeman who has a black partner and racially mixed children. I have not got onto the latter yet but would like to.

It felt like a really big thing seeing the clock tick over past midnight and into level 3. It’s been such a strange time and one which has been a test of our emotional intelligence. How did you do in level 4 ?

For me I enjoyed dipping into lots of coaching resources, thinking of this as a time to step into greater self management and leadership. I took greater charge of my finances and also started to get into a practice of gratitude again. Level 4 brought a new sense of pride as well as appreciation for being in the healthcare field.

i so felt for people not able to work during this time and who were at home with kids. Whatever challenges you have had so far though I hope you are able to reflect just on you. The challenge is always to think of life as happening for you rather than to you. You are always the hero in the story.

I feel it’s quite interesting as we move to level 3. It was good in my view that this was delayed until after ANZAC day. I feel now is a key time to even increase our level of emotional intelligence and really just hold the reigns in well.

It’s great we’ve got here and now we have a bit more freedom and are able to do more it’s almost a bigger test to just stay settled and to be responsible.

I remember in my study around Entrepreneurship and it spoke about emotional intelligence and how this is the most important factor in overall life success. There was a test done referred to as the marshmello test which measured emotional intelligence and was shown to be significantly correlated with overall success in different areas of life later on.

In this test children were given a marshmello and were told that they could eat it straight away or if they held on for a certain period of time without eating it they would get another marshmello. It was those who were able to wait (therefore higher emotional intelligence) who showed the greater life success.

So now is a time to exercise this for ourselves. We have our one marshmello… which is like our bit of freedom we have right now. It’s about learning to be with and be happy with that for the time being. Then as we are patient more will be on the way.

Know that in doing this you are going to become stronger, more self sufficient… and what else are lifes challenges other than to make us stronger versions of ourselves. Wishing you all a happy and peaceful first day of level 3.

All the best
Phil 🙂

I feel this is a question to always keep leaning into. A while ago I did a personal development workshop ran by a lady who was a nurse. She said how the main regret of people near the end of their lives is not becoming the person they could have been.

After I heard it that one time I seemed to hear it again and again.

We all fall back sometime. It’s easy to be lazy or just to fall into a negative mindset.

I think there’s power when you can take that position of looking in on your life and see what it is you need to do next.

Sometimes people just need to get through a certain time. Surviving day by day can be the heroes journey sometime.

The last few weeks have been challenging for me (as they have been for many during covid 19). Not as many clients and some greater concern around finances. It has worked out though so far by the digging in and being a bit creative.

I’ve been learning to get in touch with my inner introvert (who I am anyway). I’ve been in contact with my nephew on Whatsapp. I’ve got some online masterminds going and I’ve used the time as a time to reconfigure where business is heading.

As I leaned into the question above my answer was just to write and share my mini journey and just to encourage you to tap into yours. My plan over the next few days is to keep exercise going, to keep leaning into gratitude, to work as much as I can to stay occupied and to share as much good value as I can.

I intend to keep feeling as much connection to purpose as I can. I always think of and often quote the extreme example of Victor Frankl who was in a Nazi deathcamp then came up with his whole idea of existentialism after the war ended. Thinking of him kind of makes me ashamed of my frustration at my self isolation. I think lots of people have it worse than me though but few anywhere near as bad as him.

The point though is that it is all relative. We’re all on our own journey. The important thing is to keep seeing the obstacle, take your own self responsibility and look at what you can do to move with greater integrity over the obstacle. So what is your next move ? Remember to come from a place of care, then make your quality decision.