Let’s Be Bold
As I was listening to a recent podcast episode hosted by one of my colleagues (episode linked below), interviewing Shanna Hocking about the insights she shares in her book, One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential, it got me thinking about making bold moves. Particularly since the day before, I was in another discussion about making One Bold Ask each week, and I recently finished reading 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less.
When you hear a similar message three times in short succession, it's time to listen.
When you think about the idea of making one bold ask each week or one bold move a day, what's your first reaction?
🙋🏻♀️ Fear?
🙋🏻♀️Doubt?
🙋🏻♀️Excitement?
I had a bit of all three of these reactions. However, my bigger one was wondering what I wanted to ask for or what a bold move might look like for me.
For me, I chose a bold ask to my friends on Facebook to consider if they knew of opportunities where I could speak about the topics I'm passionate about because one of success measures for the year is to be talking on more "stages."
I did this and was thinking, woo hoo, I did my bold ask for the week. I am done!
Then I listened to the podcast about making a bold move EVERY day, and realized I needed to come up with another one for today (and every day afterward). My bold move for today was to ask a group of former colleagues to share a recent LinkedIn post spotlighting my upcoming workshop with their networks.
These may not feel bold to you, and that's ok. We get to define what bold means for each of us.
Coming up with a bold move each day forces us to get comfortable with potentially hearing more "no"s than we would like. But, it also allows for the possibility for people to say yes. People generally do want to help us succeed so maybe we should give them that opportunity.
As Wayne Gretzky (apparently before Michael Jordan) said,
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
So, let's start getting bold and taking the shots that scare us. What’s the worst that happens? They might say no, but they might say yes.
Thoughts for Reflection
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” —Dale Carnegie
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” —Babe Ruth
Leadership Learning Content for You
Nine to Thrive - The Well-Being podcast: Embracing One Bold Move a Day with Shanna Hocking