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Engineering Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

noun

  • Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
  • Having or showing great excitement and interest.
  • an individual's level of excitement, passion, and positive energy towards life experiences and interactions with others.


    • The Secret Sauce to Living Powerfully

    "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." This raises the question: Would you ever choose to be without it? From your employees, employer, friends, family, postman or plumber – would you want to interact with anyone lacking this vital spark?

    At its core, enthusiasm combines energy and love. It's that powerful force transforming ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. What if you could master the art of engineering enthusiasm? Imagine approaching every project, task, or situation with genuine excitement. How much more effective and enjoyable would your actions become?

    The Science of Enthusiasm

    Enthusiasm isn't just a mood – it's a positive vibration in our state of being, a response to the internal stories we create about our situations. Take a rainy day, for instance. You can either wrap up warm and snug, walking your dog with enthusiasm, or stand inside looking out miserably and negatively about how life is always against you.

    The beautiful truth is that this internal response is within our control. Our energy flows from the stories we've written, shaped by our past experiences, education, and environment.

    The Contagious Nature of Energy

    Think of enthusiasm like wireless charging for your soul. Spend time in close proximity to positive people, and you'll find your energy lifting to higher vibrations. The reverse is equally true – as you put it, "get the f@#k away from anyone negative" as in an overpowering negative environment, you'll be brought down if you're not careful.

    Igniting Your Enthusiasm

    Enthusiasm burns like a fire inside, serving as a pilot light for action. The art lies in keeping it alight. Just as a fire starts with a spark, enthusiasm often begins with small actions:

    1. Jump straight into action - it's like jump-starting a car, the quickest way to get moving
    2. Start with something small you can approach enthusiastically
    3. Build gradually - like tending a fire, avoid suffocating your enthusiasm by adding too much too quickly

    Practical Tools for Engineering Enthusiasm

    Here are some powerful questions to spark your enthusiasm:
    - What song could instantly lift your energy?
    - What small action could you take right now with complete enthusiasm?
    - If your enthusiasm were a fire, what would be its fuel?
    - List the why in what you want (positive motivation)
    - List the why in what you don't want (negative motivation)

    To maintain and grow your enthusiasm:
    - Define clear goals and the steps to achieve them
    - Draw strength from positive experiences and role models
    - Practice gratitude daily
    - Perform random acts of kindness
    - Choose your perspective consciously
    - Surround yourself with enthusiastic people

    Taking Action

    Today, challenge yourself to:
    1. Identify one area where your enthusiasm needs rekindling
    2. Take one small, enthusiastic action in that direction
    3. Notice how your energy shifts and affects those around you

    Engineering enthusiasm isn't about maintaining constant high energy – it's about consciously cultivating and directing your positive energy where it matters most.

    As Henry Ford noted, "Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars."

    What will you choose to be enthusiastic about today?


    Quote 
    "Do everything like you loved it"

    Mike Tyson

    Questions to help you think differently:

    Questions to help?

    • List the why in what you want +
    • List the why in what you don't want -
    • If your enthusiasm was a fire, what would be the fuel?


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    Black & White for a Colourful Life

    Black and white

    adjective
    (of a situation or debate) involving clearly defined opposing principles or issues.
    "it was all grey areas; no black-and-white certainties"

    Colourful Life

    A "colourful life" is a metaphor for a life that is rich, full, and full of a variety of experiences, interests, and relationships. It can also suggest a life that is lived with authenticity, purpose, compassion, and peace.


    What I mean by black, and white is an absolute law, order, strategy, rule, regulations, boundaries or the north or south pole on a compass.  Something of truth that we can reference as being correct.  Like a recipe for making cake, if you stick to the instructions and follow them methodically, you'll achieve the outcome.  The black and white is the recipe, ingredients, method, equipment you follow from buying the ingredient to washing up, clearing away and presenting your baking goods.  Then sitting down on a Sunday afternoon with a nice cup of tea, feet up by the fire sharing and eating the said cake with loved ones is the colourful life or outcome. 

    It's about keeping clean to the work behind the goals.  We can easily dilute situations into a greyness with emotions and find our self-negotiating with narratives like:

    But I don't feel like it,

    But I don't want to,

    But I would rather …….

    My very first coach had a saying "what does wanting to do, have to do with it?" Pete Cohen

    For a gardener to grow colourful flowers they may use a trellis to supports it, they need to be watered, aligned with sunlight and in an environment with soil that serves it.  The conditions are the black and white, what grows and what we can enjoy is the beauty or fruit that this rewards us with.


    I help client unpack a framework and strategy behind their goals, a map with the steps to move you until your enjoying and living out the colourful life you dreamed of.  This could be a simple step to smiling again or many that move you towards playing music, writing a book or building a house.  Whatever your dreams are, look deeper into the black and white in the strategy that lies behind them.  Remember to keep it simple, and keep up with taking those steps towards it, over, and over again.  

    You don't want to go to the gym, you want to feel and look better.

    You don't want to work the weekend, you want to get on top of things, money or time.

    You don't want to invest in a Coach, you want freedom in health, wealth or happiness.

    You don't want a new employee; you want the time and leverage they will give.

    Acting doesn’t need to be something you want or feel like.  It just must be something you do, happy, sad, motivated or not motivated.

    Good luck, and remember if you don't have a dream, you can’t have a dream come true.

    Quote 
    "Good order is the foundation of all greath things".

    Edmund Burke

    Questions to help you think differently:

    Think of a goal you have

    • Why do you want it? 
    • What would you enjoy if you  achieved it?
    • Who would benefit?
    • What actions are in the black and white element required to move you forward.

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    The Discipline of Surrender

    Surrender

    /səˈrɛndə/

    verb

    1 - stop resisting to an

    enemy or opponent and 

    submit to their authority.

    2 - Give up or hand over (a person, right, or possession), typically on compulsion or demand.

    noun

    1 - the action of surrendering to an opponent or powerful influence.

    We're obsessed with lacking discipline, yet it’s practiced daily.  We brush our teeth, set our alarm, go to work, eat, drink and put the bins out.  Some aren't even pleasant, like wiping our arse…..WHO WANTS TO DO THAT!!!

    Rest assured, we have the ability of being disciplined in habits but only once we‘ve surrender to them.

    Part of personal growth is in the ”letting go” of an old identity, habit or belief.  This surrender allows a new one's to operate that are aligned more appropriately to the outcome.  Behind all my clients goals is an inner stuck element,  is a waiting to be freed, and a need to surrender.

    We think it's a need for more discipline but we're not even there yet, imaging trying to drive a car with the handbrake on and the conflict, stress and strain thats put on the systems because of the ”holding on” element.  We try to increase the power and strain & stress to get movement, but people are living life with this situation in place in many area's of their business and life. They call it the grind, but it's hard, exhausting work  and just like a a motor with the brake on it will cause low performance, stress, conflict, failure, breakdown and  eventually long term reduction life expectancy.

    It’s seen as a weakness,  they lost, surrendering to another opponent, but what if the other opponent was a more powerful habit waiting for you to adopt. Surrendering allowed it to dominate your life in a positive way,  you simply "gave in" and went to the gym, started saving, told your wife you loved her, told a partner your leaving them, asked for help or stopped beating yourself up.

    To live life powerfully, simply surrender to the most powerful course of action. 



    Good luck giving up and letting go to get.

    Quote 
    "The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender".

    William Booth

    Questions to help you think differently:

    • What's a discipline would you surrender into, that would help you move in the right direction?
    • If you were really honest what is the punishment long term that you will be receiving if you keep attached to these actions/non actions?

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