Læra Coaching and Consulting

03/29/2021

3-2-1 Failure
Part three of three:

In one minute, assess your learning and consider how you’ve turned it into your current means.

“I determined that my new efforts needed to have their own “life” instead of being a temporary version of the New Scenic Café.
In doing so, I acknowledged that each aspect of these new efforts need to be valued on their own, not as a substitute of my past experiences.
I’ve slowed down and acknowledged that an experience is a resource, not to be carbon copied but to be applied.”

To guide you in this exercise, here are some additional questions:
How have I incorporated that lesson in my life since that incident? What are some examples as to where I’ve benefitted from my learning? How can I apply my learning to how I will move my idea forward?

03/24/2021

3-2-1 Failure Exercise:
In two minutes, tell your story in terms of learning.

“I learned just because we have a resource, it does not mean it is applicable to the next problem, even if that problem seems similar. It is not easy to transfer resources.

I learned to not assume anything as basic. The ‘basics’ need to be revisited often. Additionally, I learned a basic understanding of my own was not necessarily a basic understanding of my employees.

Slowing down and increasing awareness, I learned to ask additional questions I hadn’t considered previously. Additionally, looking at our “current means” became a focus of needed learning.

I had tools and resources that I did not want to lose. However, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I learned to shift my thinking and tackle new problems in a way different from normal using the same tools and resources.”

To guide you in this exercise, here are some additional questions:

Are you able to identify where things went wrong?

What are the elements you know you’ll never do again?

Are there elements that on their own are still worth preserving?

How does it feel to tell that very same story in terms of learning?

03/22/2021

3-2-1 Failure Exercise:
In three minutes, tell your story in terms of failure.

“For over 20 years I’ve owned a successful restaurant. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I believed that my past successes would equal my future success. I believed a pivot to the Mise en Place Marketplace (at home meal kits) and the Scenic 61 food trailer would be an easy, direct pivot. Things such as staff abilities, prep-lists, relationships with banks and vendors, etc. were thought to be similar and an easy shift into a different way of selling things. This was not the case. I abundantly failed in so many ways- what food, how much, packaging, labor, etc. We inevitably “squeaked out” some success, but believing that past success would guarantee future success in any endeavor was a failure.”

To guide you in this exercise, here are some additional questions:

What did you lose by having things go wrong?

What are the facts (assertions) versus the opinions (assessments) of this experience?

What feelings emerge when you recall the incident?

03/19/2021

The 3-2-1 Failure! exercise is a tool for turning failure into learning and leverage for moving forward. The exercise consists of finding a positive return on reflection for a failure you’ve encountered. By transforming this failure into learning, you’ll identify your current means and what resources or knowledge the failure gave you to move forward with. Reflecting on failures will improve future decision making.

If you make the effort to truly understand why things don’t always work, and take that learning and successfully apply it in how you move forward,
you have NOT failed . . . . . . YOU HAVE LEARNED.

What insights have you gained by failing and trying again?

Follow along next week as I guide the 3-2-1 Failure! exercise step by step while sharing an example of failure in my own life and how it’s been transformed into learning.

03/15/2021

“Before you go out and save the world, take care of your own backyard. The world is in a lot of trouble, but if your own life is not in harmony and your own backyard isn’t working, we shouldn’t be out in the street yet. We should first ask, ‘Can I take care of myself?’”
-Dr. Bruce Lipton

We have heard it before and we will hear it again. Every time we fly in an airplane, the safety instructions will remind us: “In the event of an emergency landing, put your oxygen mask on before helping others.”

Last week we taught about envisioning. This week, we are learning more and increasing our self-awareness. By creating an action plan to align and care for ourselves, we can then move forward to helping others. Follow along with us using Nuno Barreto’s step by step guide.

It’s the beginning of a new year and an excellent time to reflect upon what we’ve accomplished in the previous year, what we would have…

03/12/2021

Envision!

Envisioning is a tool used by USA's Women Olympic soccer team. They envision kicking, passing, recovering, and scoring. By the time they get to the game, it’s only a matter of just doing rather than thinking. Envisioning is a form of practice. You exercise the effort to envision.

When you see a plan for what you want laid out in front of you, your assessment of the situation starts to change. You begin to see possibilities instead of deficiencies.

03/08/2021

You act based on what you expect, not what you want.

Expectations + Actions = Creations of your life experiences

Our brains work on principles of anticipation. As soon as you anticipate any event, you begin to prepare. When you prepare for something that hasn’t even happened yet, you participate in creating the results. Are you aware you have the ability to use your conscious mind to create the results you want?

When you expect to have a good day, you naturally identify positive things around you. When negativity enters your day, your positive expectation does not allow the negativity to weigh as heavily on you.

When you expect a reward, you act positively. When you don’t, you likely act negatively. The larger the gap between what you expect and what you want the more distress you feel.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.

03/01/2021

What is ‘Use-of-Self’?

Use-of-Self is all about you, learning about yourself in action.

Most of us live our lives with little awareness of how we use ourselves. We do what comes automatically, while focusing on the work and not the impact of our choices or actions.

Developed by Charles and Edie Seashore, Conscious Use-of-Self focuses on understanding our beliefs, assumptions, perceptions, and actions and how they impact our interactions with others. Awareness of these aspects of ourselves enables us to make better choices about how we interact with others.

We believe we have control of the choices we make. We choose to act or not to act. We also choose how we act. Use-of-Self is a competency that leads you to be more aware, conscious, and choiceful with your actions and intentions.

The Laera approach incorporates the learning and teaching process. Conscious use of self is a first step into both learning about yourself as well as sharing “You” with others.

02/26/2021

I was attending an OD conference on Cape Cod years ago. Walking around the campus, I found this quote painted in a mural on the side of a building. It resonated with me. I took a picture and years since, I have been sharing and referencing it. Even a simple quote, I think it is packed with value and density. ....

Leaving you with some questions for the weekend:
Think of a challenge you are facing.

Are you able to face this challenge?

Are you allocating enough of your energy to meet this desired challenge?

Can you identify your current resources/means? Are you utilizing them?

Do you know how to foster your own imagination?
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One useful tool may be meditation. A form of unplugging from all the things we’re plugged into. Consider the app Calm.
https://www.calm.com/

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday.