Take Control: Cut These 3 Relationships from Your Personal & Professional Life
Take Control: Cut These 3 Relationships from Your Personal & Professional Life
Your life produces more life than your life can sustain.
Said differently, you have FAR more relationships and opportunities in your life than you can physically, mentally and emotionally sustain.
That's why you don't have the time you wish you had.
That's why you don't have the energy you wish you had.
That's why you don't have as many choices and control over your life that you wish you had.
In order to take back more control over the time, energy and choices in your life...
...it is essential that you start "pruning" the relationships and opportunities that you keep saying "yes" to in your life.
Cut These 3 Relationships from Your Personal and Professional Life by watching today's video.
Transcript
So, for lunch today, I'm serving up a dish of tough love because you need to hear it. The reason why you don't have enough time in your life is because it's your fault. But, that's okay, we can fix it. And, today, I'm going to introduce you to a technique called pruning, which is absolutely essential in order to cultivate the relationships, whether be personal or professional in your life that you want to see blossom while also cutting off and ending the relationships that are no longer serving you. Now, we are going to use the analogy of a rose bush in order to demonstrate the power of pruning. And, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that many of you are not expert gardeners, nor am I. So, what a rose bush needs is the care of an expert pruner in order for it to blossom to it's fullest potential. And, there's three different types of buds that an expert pruner looks for which are eerily similar to the categories of relationships that we have in our lives.
The first one are the dead rosebuds. The ones that absolutely have no chance of rehabilitation that need to be cut to make way for more healthy rose buds. We have these relationships in our lives that are absolutely no longer serving us that we allow to stick around. Maybe because we are afraid of ending it or the pain or the consequences of leaving it behind. But, those relationships in our lives, that we all know where they are, are keeping us from allocating our time and energy to the relationships that could blossom and bloom. Where are those dead rosebuds in your life?
The second category of rosebuds are the ones that are weak, that are atrophied, that could in fact blossom if we invest an intense amount of time and energy into those rosebuds. Now, those are relationships, we all have those in our lives as well and it's not to say that you don't want to invest the time and energy in those relationships. However, if they get an inordinate amount of our time and energy and show no signs of blooming, then it's time to cut those and end those. So, that you can make way and allocate your time and energy to a bud that could bloom. Where are those relationships in your life?
And, then, the final category, I find this one to be the most interesting of all, is that a rose bush, by it's very nature, produces more life than it can actually sustain. So, an expert pruner has to look for the good rosebuds and cut those, in order to make way for the great rosebuds. In our lives, we have more relationships and more opportunities than we can physically, mentally, emotionally sustain. Where we allocating our time and energy to the good ones, that's preventing us from letting the great relationships and opportunities in our lives to blossom. And, where can we prune there as well.
So, it brings me to today's challenge. What is one area of your life that you can prune over the next 48 hours that will make room for new buds to blossom? And, when you figure that out I want to hear what that is, so send it to me. And, if you're interested in hearing more about the rose bush analogy, I got it from this book called "Necessary Endings" by Dr. Henry Cloud. This book was sent to me unexpectedly from one of my favorite people in the world. So, thank you for that. Your message is allowing other people to benefit from it as well. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you next week in Master Your Universe.
Take Control: Cut These 3 Relationships from Your Personal & Professional Life
Your life produces more life than your life can sustain.
Said differently, you have FAR more relationships and opportunities in your life than you can physically, mentally and emotionally sustain.
That’s why you don’t have the time you wish you had.
That’s why you don’t have the energy you wish you had.
That’s why you don’t have as many choices and control over your life that you wish you had.
In order to take back more control over the time, energy and choices in your life…
…it is essential that you start “pruning” the relationships and opportunities that you keep saying “yes” to in your life.
Cut These 3 Relationships from Your Personal and Professional Life by watching today’s video.
Transcript
So, for lunch today, I’m serving up a dish of tough love because you need to hear it. The reason why you don’t have enough time in your life is because it’s your fault. But, that’s okay, we can fix it. And, today, I’m going to introduce you to a technique called pruning, which is absolutely essential in order to cultivate the relationships, whether be personal or professional in your life that you want to see blossom while also cutting off and ending the relationships that are no longer serving you. Now, we are going to use the analogy of a rose bush in order to demonstrate the power of pruning. And, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that many of you are not expert gardeners, nor am I. So, what a rose bush needs is the care of an expert pruner in order for it to blossom to it’s fullest potential. And, there’s three different types of buds that an expert pruner looks for which are eerily similar to the categories of relationships that we have in our lives.
The first one are the dead rosebuds. The ones that absolutely have no chance of rehabilitation that need to be cut to make way for more healthy rose buds. We have these relationships in our lives that are absolutely no longer serving us that we allow to stick around. Maybe because we are afraid of ending it or the pain or the consequences of leaving it behind. But, those relationships in our lives, that we all know where they are, are keeping us from allocating our time and energy to the relationships that could blossom and bloom. Where are those dead rosebuds in your life?
The second category of rosebuds are the ones that are weak, that are atrophied, that could in fact blossom if we invest an intense amount of time and energy into those rosebuds. Now, those are relationships, we all have those in our lives as well and it’s not to say that you don’t want to invest the time and energy in those relationships. However, if they get an inordinate amount of our time and energy and show no signs of blooming, then it’s time to cut those and end those. So, that you can make way and allocate your time and energy to a bud that could bloom. Where are those relationships in your life?
And, then, the final category, I find this one to be the most interesting of all, is that a rose bush, by it’s very nature, produces more life than it can actually sustain. So, an expert pruner has to look for the good rosebuds and cut those, in order to make way for the great rosebuds. In our lives, we have more relationships and more opportunities than we can physically, mentally, emotionally sustain. Where we allocating our time and energy to the good ones, that’s preventing us from letting the great relationships and opportunities in our lives to blossom. And, where can we prune there as well.
So, it brings me to today’s challenge. What is one area of your life that you can prune over the next 48 hours that will make room for new buds to blossom? And, when you figure that out I want to hear what that is, so send it to me. And, if you’re interested in hearing more about the rose bush analogy, I got it from this book called “Necessary Endings” by Dr. Henry Cloud. This book was sent to me unexpectedly from one of my favorite people in the world. So, thank you for that. Your message is allowing other people to benefit from it as well. Thanks for tuning in. We’ll see you next week in Master Your Universe.
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