What is Your Target?
Pop, pop. No, it’s not the sound of someone smacking gum but of English Communications staff members snapping rubber bands around their wrists.
The pain of the snap is to stop us from thinking negatively about ourselves and our abilities, a helpful mechanism provided to us by motivational speaker David Benzel. Our company had a session with him yesterday morning to help strengthen ourselves and our efforts at LAKE Magazine.
Mr. Benzel used props, Power Point and poignant humor to lead us through the discussion on the journey from being a chump to a champ.
Now before you start to ridicule Mr. Benzel’s book and seminar title, he is in no way saying we were all chumps sitting in front of him. It was more to say that people who don’t improve upon their efforts and don’t strive to better themselves each day are slowly wasting away all they have accomplished. Meaning, they are becoming chumps with no interest in all that life has to offer or could be for themselves.
Mr. Benzel brought some of his own background into the session, talking about his early efforts to become a water skier in Minnesota and moving down to Florida to become a record-setting skier. If that’s not motivational, I don’t know what is.
I found his talk and handouts very informative and thought-provoking. He got inside our brains and made us as individuals realize that some of our beliefs about what we can’t do are just that, beliefs and not truths. We need to tell ourselves that we can do it and continue to reach for a higher goal or vision to achieve.
We wrote down a personal target we wanted to hit and how we would change our daily routines to hit that target and surpass it. I felt more positive after the session and we as a group felt encouraged to give more of our best to English Communications.
I look forward to our next session with Mr. Benzel and hope our rubber band scars will have healed by then. Just kidding!
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