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the six assets that comprise your genius. The third and final step is to identify new and stimulating experiences and relationships that will allow you to explore and expand the facets of yourself you may not even know exist. I consider this step the “foreplay.” Give yourself the permission to experiment and taste new experiences. At first you may not know where to start, but listen to your intuition, which sends you loud messages and hints all the time.
For some of my creative clients, this means taking a business class or learning a new language. For some of my executives, this means learning how to salsa dance. Reach to the farthest edges, the fringes of your curiosities, and spend some serious time there. Go for the activities that will stimulate places in you that are currently underutilized. If you are a logical, analytical type, spend some time with activities that engage your creative abilities, passions, or values. If you are a creative type, focus on a hard skill you really need to move your creative passions forward. Eventually, a more balanced, more engaged, more brimming-with-possibility you will emerge. Don’t keep doing what you have been doing—change it! This foreplay is critical to reaching your other G-spot.
Yes, it takes practice and a great deal of trial and error, but over time an improved you, a more complete you, will crystalize. I have seen this happen with every client I have coached and with members of my audiences in corporate training. Once you begin to experiment with the practical genius model, you will begin to enjoy a new kind of openness to your own existence, and once the doors are open, your world will change.
For example, I coached a financial expert for a whole year, and by the end of our work together, he had realized that the place he could put all his assets into play was as a spiritual adviser. Here was an extremely accomplished finance professional who had spent his entire career in finance and his private, personal time as a student of scripture, and his revelation was the place where both of those parts of him met. So he decided to keep his job in finance and at the same time launched his own spiritual coaching practice. The result was ahappier husband, a more productive professional, and a well-centered practical genius who takes dance lessons with his wife, coaches and encourages folks from his “congregation,” and puts his financial expertise to great purpose every day.
In my own life I have learned through practice, persistence, and playing hard that in order to experience practical genius you must learn where it will flourish best. Once I identified the intersection of my talents, strengths, and skills with my values, passions, and creative abilities, I realized almost immediately that my practical genius came to life onstage as a high-impact speaker. Through storytelling, provocative imagery, smart content, practical advice, and good music, I was able to exude and leverage all of my human capital at once. This realization—or rather, actualization—was nothing short of a revelation, a moment of perfect grace and, yes, genius.
Take all your human assets, and be prepared for them to become your new currency, your new operating system, your new way of understanding what you do, how you go about doing it, and why. Be ready to upgrade your approach toward the personal and the professional and let it all hang out. Accept the contradictions and let go of the fear, and I promise that not only will you be happier but you will attract much more to your life, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Practice
Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” I have to be clear that practical genius is about deliberate practice and painstakingly hard work. Unless the hard work is also your play, you’re not going to get anywhere. Finding your genius and deciding to work on it aggressively won’t be easy, so if you’re
For some of my creative clients, this means taking a business class or learning a new language. For some of my executives, this means learning how to salsa dance. Reach to the farthest edges, the fringes of your curiosities, and spend some serious time there. Go for the activities that will stimulate places in you that are currently underutilized. If you are a logical, analytical type, spend some time with activities that engage your creative abilities, passions, or values. If you are a creative type, focus on a hard skill you really need to move your creative passions forward. Eventually, a more balanced, more engaged, more brimming-with-possibility you will emerge. Don’t keep doing what you have been doing—change it! This foreplay is critical to reaching your other G-spot.
Yes, it takes practice and a great deal of trial and error, but over time an improved you, a more complete you, will crystalize. I have seen this happen with every client I have coached and with members of my audiences in corporate training. Once you begin to experiment with the practical genius model, you will begin to enjoy a new kind of openness to your own existence, and once the doors are open, your world will change.
For example, I coached a financial expert for a whole year, and by the end of our work together, he had realized that the place he could put all his assets into play was as a spiritual adviser. Here was an extremely accomplished finance professional who had spent his entire career in finance and his private, personal time as a student of scripture, and his revelation was the place where both of those parts of him met. So he decided to keep his job in finance and at the same time launched his own spiritual coaching practice. The result was ahappier husband, a more productive professional, and a well-centered practical genius who takes dance lessons with his wife, coaches and encourages folks from his “congregation,” and puts his financial expertise to great purpose every day.
In my own life I have learned through practice, persistence, and playing hard that in order to experience practical genius you must learn where it will flourish best. Once I identified the intersection of my talents, strengths, and skills with my values, passions, and creative abilities, I realized almost immediately that my practical genius came to life onstage as a high-impact speaker. Through storytelling, provocative imagery, smart content, practical advice, and good music, I was able to exude and leverage all of my human capital at once. This realization—or rather, actualization—was nothing short of a revelation, a moment of perfect grace and, yes, genius.
Take all your human assets, and be prepared for them to become your new currency, your new operating system, your new way of understanding what you do, how you go about doing it, and why. Be ready to upgrade your approach toward the personal and the professional and let it all hang out. Accept the contradictions and let go of the fear, and I promise that not only will you be happier but you will attract much more to your life, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Practice
Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” I have to be clear that practical genius is about deliberate practice and painstakingly hard work. Unless the hard work is also your play, you’re not going to get anywhere. Finding your genius and deciding to work on it aggressively won’t be easy, so if you’re
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