Hi,
Have you ever found yourself resisting change?
I was watching an episode of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ the other night that really made fascinating viewing. Regardless whether you love or hate this ‘foul mouthed’ chef, watching him go into restaurants and turn them around is often pure genius.
On this latest episode Gordon had gone into save a restaurant that had been struggling in New Jersey called ‘Flamangoes’. Having seen the appalling décor and the over complicated menu he approached the owners to encourage them to make some radical changes to save their restaurant before it went bankrupt.
What was amazing was that even after Gordon pointed out the serious problems, even while customers sent food back to the kitchen because it was terrible, even with staff complaining bitterly about the management’s attitude, and with a head chef that hated the menu and felt stifled in his creativity – the owners just couldn’t get themselves to accept the need for change. They were literally ‘stuck in a moment’!
So… what did Gordon Ramsay do? The answer… what Gordon does best! He rounded up all the chairs, all the tables, all the terrible tropical display pieces and furnishings and he got the local fire brigade to burn them all in front of the owners and staff!
Sometimes in order to let go of resisting change we have to burn our bridges in order to accept the new in our life. Sometimes we have to be willing to release the past to move on and allow our ‘best’ future to manifest and take form.
So next time you find yourself ‘stuck in a moment’… reflect on these three insights:
1) Your Reasons Must Be Stronger than Your Fear of Change
Energy always moves along the path of least resistance. Often we don’t have enough powerful reasons for why we want to move forward. Until we can see ‘moving forward’ to a desired outcome or goal as being valuable to us our energy will continue to move towards what feels safe and certain right now.
Action: Create a list of 200 reasons of how moving forward will benefit your life.
2) Symbolically Burn Your Past!
Often it’s the unconscious patterns and attachments can keep us holding onto the past. On a symbolic level the act of burning is associated with death, transformation and rebirth. So even if we don’t fully know or appreciate what these attachments are we can still release them by writing out our fears, frustrations, regrets, resentments and guilt and then having a little private ceremony to burn this pages of paper. Where this is done with pure intent the results and inner-freedom can be amazing.
Action: Write down all your past fears, frustrations, regrets, resentments and guilt – and then burn them
3) Stop Being the General Manager of the Universe!
Often we want our future to be guaranteed before we make a move or take the next step. Often it’s our attachments to a specific outcome that will set us up for being disappointed. In our efforts to force a positive outcome we hold on to life trying to get it to go our way, until we realise that just like being on a roller-coaster there is no use trying to steer! Sometimes the best thing is to let go and enjoy the ride! Instead of forcing an outcome – let go and enjoy the process and let the potential in your project, life or business manifest in its greatest possible way!
Action: Remember ‘Fear knocked in the door. Faith answered and no one was there!’ So let Go – and let God! If you’re feeling stuck, lost or directionless in life and want to move forward then give our office a call and ask about our Personal Breakthrough Coaching & Healing sessions that can help you regain the freedom, passion and power back in your life.
Les Price is a speaker, author, coach and intuitive with over 18 years experience in business, personal and spiritual development. As a trained Executive/Business/Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Intuitive he has presented programs to audiences in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia. Based in Melbourne he is the founder of The Greatness Connection a global community that assists individuals and business owners to realise their goals in an enlightened and visionary way.
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