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Craig Harper is Australia's leading
motivational speaker
and educator (according to Google Australia). He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development.
Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
Last night (writing this Monday night) I watched a story on Sixty Minutes about a young navy diver named Paul De Gelder (pictured below with a reporter) who was attacked by a shark in the middle of Sydney Harbour three months ago. I'm sure a bunch of you Aussies watched the story also. Paul lost his right leg above the knee, right hand and part of his right forearm in the attack. The Sixty Minutes interview was an opportunity for him to recount his story and for us viewers to take a peek at his gruelling recovery process from the safety of our comfy couches. Only it wasn't. Gruelling that is. In fact it was surprisingly... er... ungruelling. A little gorey at times but not gruelling. If I had to label his recovery and rehab journey, I'd probably go with uplifting. Inspirational. Exceptional even.
Choosing Exceptional
Fortunately for you and I (and Paul), "exceptional" is an option that's available to all of us, all of the time. That's because producing the type of outcomes that most won't isn't about situations, circumstances, luck, fate, chance or even ability; it's about choosing to do what most won't - thereby being the exception to the majority. Choosing exceptional and producing amazing results is certainly not limited to tough blokes who have been attacked by sharks. Being exceptional, doing exceptional and creating exceptional outcomes all stems from having an exceptional mindset, which in turn produces exceptional choices, behaviours and results. Simple really. Until we make it hard. As we often do.
Here's how it works:
1. An exceptional mindset (attitude, thinking, reaction) is an option for all of us. We can find the good or we can inhabit the bad (as many do). We can be the solution person or the problem person. We can be proactive or reactive. We can be the light in the darkness or the darkness in the light. And we can be the victor or the victim. For most of us our mind is our reality, so we best take charge of it. Good or bad, hard or easy, terrifying or exciting is determined by us and us alone.
2. With a better mindset comes better decisions. The ones that many would avoid. The uncomfortable but necessary decisions. The logical and not the emotional.
3. With better decisions comes better behaviours and habits. Put simply, we do better. Always a good thing.
4. And with better habits and behaviours comes better results.What we want. Of course.
"We can't always control what happens to us or around us, but we can control how we respond." Annoyingly Positive
How on earth can the recovery process from a shark attack that robs you of a hand, part of your forearm and a leg (things we really prefer to keep) be anything but gruelling, horrible and distressing? Well, apparently it can. In fact, if you really want it to be, it can be interesting and dare I say, fun. Just ask Paul who seemed to be annoyingly happy, positive, logical and proactive about doing what needs to be done. Of course it's about now that the cynics might say something like "well that's because he's in denial and he's not dealing with reality". And I would say to those purveyors of gloom... that's why you're cynics and Paul's controlling what he can, letting go of what he can't and getting on with the business of living. He is indeed being the change in his world. The shark could never take his courage, his determination or his ability to choose what he does with what he's got. Attributes like courage, determination, self-control, focus and optimism can never be taken from us - but we can choose to give them away.
Justifiable Misery
If only someone would remind Paul that he "deserves" to be angry, resentful, bitter and full of self-pity; justifiable misery we might call it. What's with all that happiness and positivity stuff anyway? If anyone could rationalise some serious self-pity, it's this bloke. Apparently he's not interested. Weird. I know a bunch of people who could give him a serious lesson (or ten) in self-inflicted pain and misery. People who can milk a common cold or a sore toe for months. People who think that adversity is waiting in a queue for two minutes. Attention-seeking, self-indulgent sooks who wouldn't know real pain if it slapped them over their precious heads.
"I don't care what you've got; I care what you do with what you've got."
Sometimes life doesn't get better; we get better.
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