Your Iconic Image : Finding Your Superpower
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Tracy Cherpeski - Tracy Cherpeski International
Tracy L. Cherpeski - MBA, MA, CPSC, is a leading executive coach and leadership development expert with over 15 years experience. Her expertise, professional experience and "coach tool kit" guide her clients to success in many areas of business and life.
Her coaching and training programs offer integrated leadership, executive development, operations consulting and mindset mastery.\\xa0
Tracy has shared her coaching and workshops with corporations, government and non-profit organizations, small businesses and medical practices.
Tracy is also host of the Entrepreneur Mindset-Reset podcast where she interviews guests around the world from various industries and walks of life. Together, she and her guests explore success mindset, lessons learned, and wisdom gained through their entrepreneurial journey.
Tracy\'s biggest \\u201cWHY\\u201d is her two beautiful teenaged children, who inspire her to reach higher and further every day. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with her husband, children and a menagerie of adopted furry family members, and serves clients from all over the U.S., to Norway, the UK, Brazil, China, Spain and Australia.
Tracy\\u2019s professional and personal philosophy: Survival is not enough; life is meant to be celebrated.
Website: https://www.tracycherpeski.com
Entrepreneur Mindest-Reset Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ entrepreneur-mindset-reset-with-tracy-cherpeski/id1550000285
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Complimentary consultation to discover your own "super power" www.TalkWithTracy.com
Everybody has one.\\xa0 Probably more than one. \\xa0
What am I great at?\\xa0 What do I love doing?\\xa0
When I\\u2019m at my best, what am I doing?\\u2026let that marinate\\u2026.hear it out loud\\u2026
When I am at my best and when I\\u2019m doing that, I\\u2019m doing precisely what?
Some clients say \\u2018I\\u2019m at my best when I\\u2019m solving problems\\u2019..a riddle, a puzzle\\u2026we just kept picking it apart and kept asking the questions and one lady said \\u2018I do it everywhere in my life\\u2019 and I was like \\u2018Great!\\xa0 How can you capitalize on that? How can you turn that into something that really helps you shine?\\u2019\\u2026how does that support you?\\xa0 How does that support the people in your life?\\u2026How can you turn that into a marketable skill\\u2026
We still need to get curious and keep asking ourselves questions\\u2026
\\u2026What I\\u2019m great at is asking people what they really want, where they thrive.\\xa0 What is it they love about what they do? What motivates them? Motivation is not an innate thing.\\xa0 We have to manufacture it a lot of times\\u2026.motivation often doesn\\u2019t even kick in until we\\u2019re about 5 minutes into something.
What is the thing that we could do with our eyes closed that lights us up?\\xa0 And how do we apply that?
Focus in on what we would do if money were no object.\\xa0
If we have a challenge\\u2026if I\\u2019m great at solving that, maybe I\\u2019m also great at solving that for other people.\\xa0 So, how can I turn that into something?
I\\u2019m a huge fan of figuring out what drains your energy and outsourcing or bartering\\u2026
I think there\\u2019s a way to be more effective\\u2026by taking our strengths and applying them when it\\u2019s time to hustle.\\xa0 And maybe during glide times\\u2026I despise admin.\\xa0 It drains my energy.\\xa0 But, if those things don\\u2019t get done, I don\\u2019t get paid.\\xa0 So I block them as \\u2018I get to do this today so that\\u2026\\u2019\\xa0 I block it during a time when I don\\u2019t have umpteen things going.
For me if it\\u2019s off the plate, it\\u2019s off my head.
Say you\\u2019re new\\u2026sometimes it\\u2019s important to really be in it.\\xa0 There\\u2019s a taping point\\u2026when you\\u2019re waking up\\u2026at 3 o\\u2019clock in the morning and that\\u2019s on your mind\\u2026I think it\\u2019s amazing what a leap of faith can do.
I hired an assistant during the heat of the pandemic when my business was slow\\u2026and when we recover our time and energy, we are able to be in our superpower and our zone of genius, doing the thing that lights us up and most of the time in business is what monetizes.
Especially now\\u2026we\\u2019ve been thrust into a totally different way of doing every single thing\\u2026We don\\u2019t give ourselves credit for what we\\u2019ve managed to do\\u2026Acknowledging that we can have gratitude and a whole pile of garbage that feels heavy at the same time..is important.\\xa0 And it helps take the heaviness off having to be a certain way\\u2026I think the personal devotement world has done a bit of a disservice with this toxic positivity.
We can simultaneously be ok and not ok.\\xa0 That\\u2019s something that has shown up in our household\\u2026
It\\u2019s ok to say \\u2018I\\u2019m in it right now and I don\\u2019t like it.\\u2019\\xa0 Sometimes just speaking that clears it out.\\xa0 Or it opens the door for us to take a different path\\u2026
I\\u2019m a huge fan of journaling.\\xa0 I feel like it\\u2019s a great way to brain dump\\u2026.we just need to clear and let it all out\\u2026.I had no idea how much negative junk I was holding onto in my head\\u2026
I cleared out all the negativity\\u2026all the stuff that was holding me back\\u2026then I started getting more creative\\u2026
Kind of clear the decks in some way\\u2026go for a walk, get outside,\\xa0 get in nature\\u2026move your body in some way.
See what comes up and allow all of that to come up.
Get out of your head!\\u2026write it down, talk it out\\u2026
The Artist\\u2019s Way
You either deal with it, or follow it.
Sometimes we don\\u2019t know what our zone of genius is or our superpower is because we don\\u2019t get asked those questions. \\xa0
We were taught to be good listeners, good workers, compliant, agreeable, go to college or some kind of trade school and then go get a job\\u2026It doesn\\u2019t work for everybody.\\xa0 And it certainly doesn\\u2019t open our minds to what else can be.
What else?\\xa0 Keep going until you run out of answers to them.\\xa0 Okay\\u2026What else?\\u2026What else..?\\xa0 You go until you exhaust that and maybe there\\u2019s something in there.
Live into them\\u2026.Is there a way to apply that? \\u2026I really enjoy doing \\u2018this\\u2019.\\xa0 I\\u2019m on fire when I\\u2019m doing \\u2018this\\u2019.\\xa0 How can I use it here?
We don\\u2019t do enough of putting ourselves out there and posing questions or making suggestions.\\xa0 I think the worst thing that can happen is we get a \\u2018no.\\u2019\\xa0 But the answer is not before we even ask anyway.
I really enjoy this.\\xa0 I don\\u2019t feel like monetizing it\\u2026.What\\u2019s another way to use it?..Maybe it\\u2019s volunteering.
If the work environment isn\\u2019t conducive to\\u2026that spirit\\u2026that may not be a good place to apply it. So, perhaps it means to start getting more clear on what that means\\u2026
When we get really clear on what we want and why we want it, amazing energy things happen\\u2026our focus gets so clear that opportunities seem to float down from the sky.
I\\u2019m happy with where I\\u2019m at right now and I want to use this for something else.
Ask the question: I\\u2019m at my best when I\\u2019m doing ______?\\xa0 And there may be more than one thing.\\xa0 And you may need to contextualize that\\u2026.at work\\u2026at play\\u2026with my family\\u2026then look for patterns\\u2026
Take the steps that feel right and don\\u2019t regret.
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