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 * Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund * Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod All songs licensed under Creative Commons