Business Breakthroughs on a Water Slide
Posted in Entrepreneurial mindset, Environments for Success, Inspiration, Mastermind for Success, Uncategorized and tagged with busines breakthroughs, mind traps to success, mindset on 08/05/2009 11:20 am by Therese Skelly
or “How my 10 year old coached me into getting over my fears and getting with the game of living bigger”
This is a story that I just kept writing and writing and writing, so we’ll break it up into three parts….
What if you could have a breakthrough in the most unlikely of places? What if doing one wild and crazy thing changed the way you experienced your business?
Because we are in some wacky times and almost every business owner I know has been faced with having to figure out how to get and keep clients, and how to best put forward their marketing messages. Since I’m in the middle of yet another rebranding, I’ve been experiencing some of that frustration myself. But it was all about to change….
There I was, finally facing my fears, barreling down one of those enclosed tube-style water slides, when it happened. CLARITY! It’s as if something Divine got revealed to me as I realized what a metaphor this was for not only my business, but for most business owners. Who would have thought that leaning into my HUGE fear of water slides would reveal something so symbolic and profound to me.
In that moment of surrendering to the water and where it was taking me through the black tube – I saw why so many business owners are struggling. Speeding down the tube, I even was able to see a solution! (Sort of like your life flashing before you…except I wasn’t going to the pearly gates, but to the big splash pool at the end.
Click here to hear how I went from a freaked out water-slide phobic mom, to a solid and grounded business owner who ‘got it’ in terms of the flow of life and business.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Therese,
I have to laugh because I had the same kind of business breakthrough when I took my kids to Disney World. I went to the Lagoon Park and there was this slide called: The Summit Plummit. You basically plummet 120 feet almost straight down on the waterslide and then you hit the bottom and slide alone. (It takes 5 seconds)
Before I was to go there was a HUGE lineup behind me (I waited an hour for this ride) and than I got scared. However, I couldn’t get back down because of the people and I had to look ‘cool’ in front of my 12 and 15 year-old, so I did it.
Wow…what a rush is all I can say. I started realizing after that ride that we all worry about things too much. What for? We’re here today, gone tomorrow. Let’s be brave, take chances and stop worrying about the outcome so much – let’s do our best, live with passion and be authentic!
Great point, Therese!
Lisa
August 6th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hey Lisa,
What a great story!
It’s funny how our kids can draw out in us things we never knew we had.
Your point is so correct – live with passion!
Thanks…
Therese
May 26th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
[...] In the last post, I shared how my 10 year old coached me into facing some crazy fears I was dealing with about doing water slides and how it all turned into a big, beautiful metaphor for what we experience in business. I’ll tell you the business application in tomorrow’s post, but I want you to hear the story of how this all came to be, because it’s pretty funny. Pathetic perhaps, but funny. [...]
May 26th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
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