I had lunch with an amazing new friend this week. She shared with me that every year she keeps a journal of key reflections on the year. Up until now, she has started her journal with her goals for the year and then periodically recorded progress throughout the year. Her last journal entry of the year has been an overall assessment of how she did in reaching her goals during the year and what she wants to focus on for the next year.
While that process has been helpful to her and instrumental to her very successful career, she told me that this year she is starting a new kind of journal. Based on the inspiration she received when attending one of my Reasons Why YOU ROCK! sessions, she is now only recording Reasons Why She Rocks in her journal, and using her Reasons Why YOU ROCK! book as the journal. She shared that the power of this exercise has been tremendous. The Reasons Why She Rocks serve as a way to inspire her and give her courage when it’s needed. Like a very difficult message she had to deliver recently. Before the encounter, she reviewed her journal. Reminding herself of Why She Rocks gave her the courage to have the conversation in a way that resulted in a positive outcome for both her and the person receiving the message.
One of the participants at my most recent Reasons Why YOU ROCK! workshop on September 18th had also attended my previous workshop in July. In July she brought her mom, and in September she brought a good friend of hers. When I saw her in September, she told me that the experience for her mom was life-changing, and that they are now having Reasons Why YOU ROCK! conversations every month, working through one chapter each month. The experience of focusing on what is great about her is giving the woman’s mom a whole new confidence she has never had before.
I am so grateful for the opportunity to do this work. Each time I deliver a presentation or a workshop many women tell me how much they needed to hear the message. We ALL need to hear the message, over and over again. When we know why we rock, we deliver our greatness to the world with no holding back, and that is a very generous gift!
I’m really looking forward to all the speaking engagements I have in October and November, and especially looking forward to my Reasons Why YOU ROCK! retreat for women November 5th – 7th. www.kathylight.com/retreats