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