Brad Solomon and I set off on another unplanned exploration into what’s present to us in the moment, including sharing childhood pictures of ourselves.
This is a rebroadcast of a conversation I had with Brad Solomon, Founder and CEO of the CTG Group in the UK on his podcast called The Lockdown Sessions.
The Lockdown Sessions is a weekly podcast, hosted by Brad that explores reflections on a broad range of topics including self awareness, self management, learning and development issues and personal growth.
For this conversation there is also a video on Youtube. If that’s your jam and if you want to see what I looked like when I was four years-old (and many years later in present times) you can see it there.
We keep coming back to The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz, but this episode is definitely lighter on the book references the our previous conversation.
Conversation Highlights
- Coaching from an un-nuanced and unfiltered place
- Our word creates–what are you creating with it?
- Is being late to meetings your “brand?”
- Being impeccable with our word or cleaning it up
- We cannot bring meaning to a situation for another person (only they can)
- Even though we think we can
- Even though we try
- Do you re-play and re-create conversations in your head? How does it benefit you?
- Changing situations by how you are being and who you bring to the conversation versus saying the perfect thing you figured out from a past interaction
- Brad likes to ask
- What did I want to happen?
- Can I envision it?
- Do I have clarity of the purpose?
- How did I get in the way?
- Owning my role in the conversation
- How we get in our own way
- Embracing our inner 4-year-old
- Seeing the 4-year-old in others as a way of connection and compassion
- Ways of asking permission to say hard things and designing agreements
- Listening to our intuition
- Saying it out loud even if we aren’t sure
- Unattached to interpreting it correctly
- Cleaning up what doesn’t work
- John wonders when the “lock down sessions” will end and the “freedom sessions” will begin
Credits
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