On Success | What Are YOU Tolerating?
One of the first things you are taught when you become a coach is about “Tolerations” and it’s a great place to start with any coaching client – be it about life, business, money or relationships.
Tolerations are “energy sucks” that can really slow you down. They are the little nagging things that you put up with on a day to day basis, but which niggle away in the back of your mind.
For example, think of walking around your house and noticing everything. Is that a frayed bit of carpet? A cobweb in the corner, a bit of paintwork that has got scuffed by a skateboard (you can tell I have teenagers!)
One of the best things you can do about tolerations is to get them OUT Of your head and onto a bit of paper, or onto your blog or into your Basecamp project management software and do you know something magical? Once you start sharing your tolerations with your team – or even just the universe – something magical happens.
Your team and/or your subconcious get to work and your tolerations start to get fixed, fix themselves or just go away!
Today I sat down to write this ezine and before I did (classic avoidance technique!), I noticed that my Clunk Click backup wasn’t working. Further investigation revealed that it couldn’t launch because I didn’t have the right Java exe file installed (although the Java site said I did).
This Java issue has been a toleration for a while now, resulting in my not being able to see the drop down date box in my Google Analytics (which is impacting my ability to create meaningful conversion statistics).
So I called up ClunkClick and the ever-patient Edward talked me through fixing the Clunk Click and the Java issue.
This inpired me to try downloading a new version of GoodSync in an attempt to fix the RoboForm Online / Goodsync issue that’s been nagging – and lo and behold, both work perfectly now!
Then I logged into my Google Account in a hopeful manner, to find…………..nope! Still no dates to click on the drop down box. Darn it!
I want to encourage you to make a list of your current Tolerations – even if you don’t how how in hell you are going to be able to zap them….you will amaze yourself.
We then moved onto fixing the bathroom door which the two boys had managed to bust – this took some major effort on our part as it involved walking to B&Q and buying TOOLS. Sarah already has a toolbox (at her friend Michelle’s) and I have a toolbox (in my ex-husband’s garage along with all my art, and Christmas Decorations – don’t ask!)
So paying for MORE tools was a bit painful but easier than getting the toolboxes so we pushed through it – along with the pain of choosing just the right length and width of screw – and came home with enough tools to be able to fix the door in a very “DIY SOS” style.
One more toleration zapped.
Then I moved onto to try and work out why anything to do with Facebook was showing in French as I’ve been tolerating that for a while and while looking around to find out how to change my preferred Facebook language, I was mighty cheered up by the discovery that you can now choose “English – Pirate” as your default FB language.
And very funny it is too. Your “single” status becomes “sailing solo” and it works outside FB too! So when you are reading someone else’s blog, the “like” button becomes “Arrr! Nicola Cairncross is viewin’ this with pleasure!”
Well, it made me laugh a LOT!
On the week that my very favourite TV show “The X-Factor” returns to our screens (yes I actually started to feel a bit happier about the end of the summer when I heard that news) I have to mention that my singing sister Heather has had some amazing success with her brand new blog at http://HeatherCairncross.com
She wrote about singing backing vocals on the new Susan Boyle album, and overnight her blog was shared on the Susan Boyle Fan Club Forum and she enjoyed hundreds – yes! hundreds of visitors, each day, over the next few days. A follow up blog post, some strategic tweets from Abbey Road Studios and the frenzy continued for a week or so. She has enjoyed requests for interviews from various media around the world and she has gained herself a lot of traffic and subscribers.
Listen to the RadioLive New Zealand interview here: http://bit.ly/heathernzradiolive and if it crashes your browser (try letting it fully download before you press play) you can check it out on my YouTube channel UK Marketing Mentor
And click the “share your thoughts” link to tell me what you are tolerating right now in your life or business! Just writing it down on this blog will start that magical process working!
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