Unexpectedness in Big and Little Ideas

Episode 391: Unexpectedness in Big and Little Ideas EPISODE NOTES Exciting news! You can listen to the audiobook version of What Am I Made For? Cultivate and Grow Big and Little Ideas. It is available on Audible, Spotify, LibriVox, Audiobooks.com, and library apps like Libby! You can hear “Chapter 1: Unexpectedness in Big and Little Ideas” in this podcast episode. Talented Swedish author Fredrik Backman reached out to me after reading my book. Once I get his permission, I will share some snippets from our email correspondence—spoiler alert: it’s glowing! Mr. Backman is the brilliant mind behind beloved works like My Friends, A Man Called Ove, Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners, Anxious People, and others. Chapter One begins in this way. “We often think of self-growth as being something we initiate, but what if unexpected experiences are what actually shape us? From those unexpected experiences, we extract the lessons for self-growth that reshape our lives.” Our growth often comes wrapped in the cloak of inconvenience, appearing as grief, curiosity, or unexpected questions we never thought to ask. Let’s embrace the beautiful messiness of becoming and allow this audiobook to inspire and nurture your big and little ideas along the way. So turn up the volume and enjoy my audiobook! You can start with chapter one by clicking on the podcast link. Happy listening! DOWNLOAD Episode Resources Audible Buy Nancy’s Book at Bookshop What Am I Made For? Podcast Episode   NEXT STEP: Challenge yourself and do the three Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring (C.A.L.M.) Activities, below. Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring After listening, do these three C.A.L.M. Activities: Take this risk or do this adventurous task: What is a question you hadn’t planned to ask yourself about your current situation? Apply Self-Compassion: Identify what feeling you are feeling right now. Where in your body do you feel this feeling? Once you know what your universal human need is, you can meet it. Welcome Appreciation: “I appreciate having taped the audiobook version of What Am I Made For? Cultivate and Grow Big and Little Ideas. As a result, I articulate words more clearly. I appreciate the team I worked with at Manuscripts, especially my audiobook producer, Stephanie McKibbon and Uros Stojnic, sound engineer.” It’s Your Turn: Start with, “I appreciate what I heard from today’s Mentor, Nancy Meyer. I appreciate this week’s adventurous task because…”  “Most of the problems in our lives and world are caused by relational dysfunction, a dysfunction in how we relate: as social groups, as individuals, to animals and the environment, and even to ourselves. Therefore, developing relational literacy—the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating—is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.” —Melanie Joy, Ph.D. Psychologist, Author, Theorist, Educator When WeMentor… your life becomes more meaningful!!! Redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. Dual Innovation Leadership WORKS.  Visionary Mentor Nancy Meyer, MA Business and Life Mentor | Podcaster | Author | Mindfulness Yogi and Meditation Integrator I integrate mindfulness yoga into everything because breathing, meditation, and movement are essential as you change your life and how you lead.  I have a compassionate, collaborative approach that reinforces resilience and maintains accountable conversations supporting your evolution. Bottom Line: My top priority is your transformation and creating a meaningful life through business ownership. You will learn new skills, practice, evolve, innovate, expand marketing efforts, and prosper financially. We start with your desire to develop as a leader. To give you more background, I founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to promote Dual Innovation Leadership, the ability to evolve how you lead as you redesign your business model. To grow our businesses, we must lead differently when our perspective shifts. The thousands of brave leaders I have mentored succeeded by taking charge of how they evolved and learned how to respond to the unpredictable nature of business ownership by innovating on purpose (asserting self-leadership).  When your perspective shifts, your intuition nudges you into a growth process so you can learn how to lead differently. As you practice new ways of leading, you notice ways to change your business. It is like remodeling.  We start with a plan when we embark on a remodeling project. When we implement the plan, obstacles challenge us to adjust our mindset, gather further information, and brainstorm other options. Adapting the plan to fit our new reality is part of every remodeling project. Budgets always need adjusting, and we need to update our approach to complete the innovation. What I love about renovating our businesses is that new ideas emerge, and the project usually has an even better result. We feel changed through the process and have learned many details about remodeling that we can apply in our next project. HEAR why I am doing this podcast and subscribe HERE. Get inspired with resources and tools to support your transformation. We post new conversations regularly! You can also binge and listen to prior podcast conversations. Another thing to know about Dual Innovation Leadership is that you can rebound and recover from trauma, distractions, destructive habits, thoughtlessness, confusion, pointlessness, helplessness, overwork, stress, and suffering as you transform how you lead. Integrating our experiences is exhilarating as we evolve how we lead and redesign our lifework. Take the opportunity to change. Assert the next phase of self-leadership development, contact me.  Episode 391: Unexpectedness in Big and Little Ideas Podcast Categories, Archives, and Guest Mentors Guest Mentors Sorted by First Name Click to see all Alan Wallner Alison Cromie Allison Hubel Alvin Berger The Amazing Hondo Amy Bantham Aneela Idnani Ann Anderson Annette Rondano Arthur Fry Barb Kobe Barbara Winter Bob Kabeya Bobby Kabeya Carolyn Porter Cathy Hockert Cedric Bryant Cindy Banchy Damaris Hollingsworth Dan DeMuth Daniel Libby Dan Oshinsky Daniel Prosser Danielle Drevlow David Mann Dean Hyers Deb Pitzrick Domonique Jones Dr. Amy Bantham Dr Melanie Joy Emily Baxter Engel Jones Fatoun Ali Giscard Ayissi Gita Mazumdar Glen McClusky Heather Boschke Iman Aghay Israel Sokeye Jackie Menne James Eder James Conn Jan Lehman Jason Campbell Jay Newton-Small Jennifer Gilk Jennifer Nelson Jerry Pitzrick Jim Conn Joan Moser JoAnne Funch Jodi Standke Joe Schmit Joel Salomon John Choi John Fearing John Hughes John Patching John Lee Dumas John Munger Julie Ann Segal Karen Dodson Karin McCabe Kathy Flaminio Kelli Johanson Ken Suzan Keren Shamay Kim Albee Kim Minert Kit Welchlin Koura Linda Kristin Campbell Lisa Fain Laurie Healy Larissa Uredi Leah Seeger Leslie Fahey Lisa Najjar Liza Atkinson Lois Zachary Mahi (Nagendar) Mahipathi Mary Hayes Grieco Marcy Nelson-Garrison Marshall Davis Matt Clark Matt Mueller Matthew Foli Melanie Joy Mickey Mikeworth Mike Barrett Mike Kabeya Mike Marcellus Monica Olson Nancy Lindgren Nancy Meyer Nick DeMuth Nicole Fenstad Pat Dillon Patricia McGinnis Pete Machalek Philip Mattison Priscilla Vang Rick Macias Rosemary Wallner Sally Doyle Sameer Idnani Sarah Becker Scott Welle Sharon Richards-Noel Skip Thaler Stephen Adams Steven Berg Stevie Ray’s Improv Company Sue Davis Suzula Bidon Sylvie Kabeya Ted Risdall Terry Wu, Ph.D. Tim Gilk Tim Kletti Tom Hubler Tom O’Neill Tony Buettner Trahern Pollard Troy Pongratz Ursula Mentjes Wendy Sullivan Yvonne Ng Podcast Sponsor