Blind Sighted Podcast

If It Ain't Broke, Improve It

Do you look at things and say it works and that is good enough? Not a bad way to go. Or if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Instead, focus on constant and never ending improvement. How complacency is short lived and causes all sorts of problems. Cleaning up our messes and incompleteness will ignite the light within. We're talking about if it ain't broke improve it or some of us have this other mindset and I certainly did; if it ain't broke don't fix it or leave it be. but complacency which causes maybe some bad habits and things that we are starting to get blind to. I'm Charlie Collins and I am a co-host here on the blindsided podcast a speaker and a coach and Brenda Hayden who is the founder of time for 10, an emotional awareness coaching service. We teach people how to challenge their conditioned thinking so that they can lead a better life.

Just taking a minute to think about how to slow down long enough to think about, am I happy, am I enjoying my job, do I like my routine, am I working out the way I like, but the list could go on and on if you just stop and take an inventory of; are you happy in your day-to-day with what you're doing. If you just made a list am I happy in my day to day and figure out what brings you Joy and what doesn't. It's a great way to start to pause and take a look at it & shine a light on it to see what's going on. Ask the questions which I didn't answer because there's a big long to do list.

So, it's not broke but it is possible to improve it and what's on the other side of that Improvement is amazing. We're talking about motivation to do something differently that's going to improve your life or your environment and I think one of the things that I've been guilty of is I've got to do it all now, not just a part of it, but all of it. I think I set myself up for failure when I think that way. I could go in and say I'm going to work on one small goal on one day and then over time, if you do 30 minutes two or three times a week it's going to start looking great. So, it's about setting a small goal that you can achieve, at least for me anyway. I said a small goal that I can achieve, because that is a strength of mine.

By the way, I learned that this company called The Vi Institute has where you can go on there and you can take an assessment and it'll tell you what all your strengths are and it'll also tell you the things that you're not so strong at. What the research studies show; is that if you improve on your strengths, forget about the things that you're not so strong at, and if you improve on your strengths then the things that you're not so strong at, will organically get better. People kind of make that mistake that if they're weak at something they think that I'm going to focus on making that better. But you're not really good at it so it does not improve. They should focus on what you're good at and that's going to rise on its own. I can set small goals on a regular basis which requires discipline and improve on what my strengths are and what I consider my weaknesses will improve organically.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Charlie Collins' discussion with our cohort, he was engaging and personable. He made us go through all of the emotions while listening to him talk, making all of us in awe over what he was talking about. I know we all would enjoy it if he came back for another visit! -Lilyana M.

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