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counsel, excellence, guidance, help, mastermind, mindset, role model, success
Every night before you go to sleep, you close your eyes and breathe slowly. You dream of a large room with a round table in the middle surrounded by empty chairs. Your favourite paintings hang on the wall, busts of those most successful are perched on columns between the ceiling high windows which have been draped in the most luxurious curtains you care to imagine , you sit patiently with your eye keenly on the large double doors awaiting your guests. As they enter in single file they too take their seats at the table.
You’ve just called a counsel meeting with the intention of discussing your goals and dreams, the problems in your life, the obstacles that you’ve encountered and you are seeking the expertise of those who you’ve summoned. Your panel of experts are there to provide inspiration, knowledge, skills, ideas and ways to move forward.
The question is: Who will you invite to sit at your table? Which people from the present or the past will be invited to help you succeed? Who inspires you? Who do you look up too? Who are your role models?
What does your counsel say about the items that you have brought to the table?
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I actually frequently do this, and my counsel changes as well as I find more fitting personalities whose goals, beliefs, values and attitudes more closely match those required to get me to where I wish to be. Often, asking Mademoiselle Chanel what she would have done when I am unsure around career or Abraham Lincoln when I have a concern around leadership definitely feels more congruent and likely to succeed knowing that I am in the presence of artists.
Try it on. Even if you don’t, it’s still a good idea to know and appreciate your role models so that their success and mindset can flow into you.
-Darcey