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‘OMG, will I break the baby?!’ (and other performance challenges)
What if you were already performing at your best in every situation?
I asked the woman across from me.
She got quiet. She laughed. A wry smile crept into the corner of her mouth.
I could see that she had heard something new so I gave her space to process; to see the insight that was emerging.
She laughed again.
Ha! That’s really interesting,
she replied.
I meant it!
I said.
A participant in my Future Leader’s Project, she had been worried about her performance and was looking for ways to fix or improve herself.
Through my direct and unexpected question, she was seeing — maybe for the first time — that she could simply show up and do her best, given the resources she has, the way she feels, and her state of mind in any and every situation.
Sure,
I said,
you might consider what ‘better’ means. You might want to develop your skills, to learn something new, gain more experience perhaps.
But you don’t live in the future, you live in the present.
