I stumbled on an interesting concept or practice and a surprisingly motivating exercise quite by accident. I want to share it with you so you can either play with it... or not!
Back in February, I had an epiphany while listening to my favorite Barry White song, "You're My First, My Last, My Everything." (Yeah, I really do love Barry White!). I'd always sung this song about my husband (we just celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary yesterday). (Download the lyrics here). The realization was that this love song, one he seems to be singing to a woman, is a song I can sing to myself!
This idea came to me at a time when I was feeling quite proud of the results I created with the "How to Love Networking" workshop I customized for Harris Bank employees last year. It was an amazing experience to sing these lyrics to myself. I imagined I was singing them to my little girl, my inner child, to young Gail and have done so since. It creates an amazing feeling of warmth, love, empowerment, pride. I associated this discovery with just this one song.
NOW! The new development and discovery is that while driving my car last week on my way to a speaking engagement, I listened to one of the love song channels on the radio and had the same experience... with EVERY (happy) love song! They all fit! I tried this intentionally to get myself grounded, since I always have some nervousness before speaking. Well, I got so pumped up and inspired and felt so anchored, loving and empowered I felt I could do anything!
So... my invitation to you is to try this exercise yourself! Here's what you do.
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