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good morning, how was your week?
great i hope.
genuinely.
i hope you’ve had a great week.
i care.
mine has been interesting, challenging, rewarding, and enlightening.
we’ll start with the bad stuff, my parkies has been challenging this week, with a neurology meeting, where they upped my meds, which is just confirmation that things are getting worse, which is a bitch, but until they make a breakthrough it ain’t gonna be getting any better, but the facts being presented and upped meds is a tough cocktail of pills to take.
the side effects of the new meds are an (increased) addictive nature, with a propensity to buy things, gamble, do drugs, and heighten my libido, so many jokes, such little time.
so i am relying on you to police the blog, and contact the authorities if you notice any tales of forays to burning man or other such twists of character.
apart from that for me i have been fine, but i’ve had a week where the subject of ‘confidence’ has been interesting.
not mine, other peoples.
i had a friend reach out to tell me that she had been invited to talk on a panel at a giant industry event, due to her experience and expertise, but was still having an internal meltdown, and needed a pep talk.
the irony for me was that by asking me, a 62 year old with parkinsons for a pep talk, she was unknowingly injecting me with confidence building serum.
and man did i give her a pep talk, i channeled all the great orators, and as we ended the call, we were both pumped full of chest beating adrenaline.
she messaged me after the event “i loved it, such a dopamine hit” and i smiled.
i was relaying this story to a very successful lawyer friend, who when i first met her noticeably had an air of authority and confidence about her, but she confessed to struggling with imposter syndrome still, even though she was very high ranking partner in a big company.
surprising and interesting in equal measure.
we’ve also been doing some data analysis on our bigmoose referrals, and confidence or lack of, is a high ranking contributory factor to poor mental health, so i am going to do some work on discovering more about how confidence affects peoples performance, and how designing strategies to improve true confidence can improve general wellbeing, i find this subject fascinating.
so if you have stories of where confidence or lack of have impacted your life, positively or negatively, drop me a line, i feel a course coming on, how cool to run a course to empower people, and give them tools for life.
have a great weekend.
blue skies.
jeff
p.s. 28 bikes sold for project 1 million 2.0 (£280,000 pledged)
