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From a young age, you probably realized that you weren’t cut from the same cloth as most of the people around you. You saw things differently, and different things held value for you than what was important to the people around you. You always felt a bit like an outsider, and even when you did seem to fit in, you still felt like you were on the fringes, waiting for people to find out your secret.

How do I know this about you? Not just because it is/was true about me, but because I’ve worked with so many people over the years who’ve said the same thing about themselves, and I’ve come to see that it’s a lot more common than any of us seem to realize.

You’re not normal — is this bad?

Not at all, of course. When you think about it, what good is normality, anyhow (in a social sense, at least)?

So what does it mean?

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(Alternate title: “Tagged - No, Wait - Yes… Tagged!”)

As you know by now, a big part of my approach to work is about healing the voices within that keep us from showing up at our best.

So when I got tagged (more on that in a second) for Peter’s “Think Different” challenge, it was a no-brainer; the idea, basically, is to try thinking differently about something in your life that you’ve been holding as a negative… start thinking positively about it, and see what happens.

(The “tagging” debacle? I was told by Tristan Loo of the Synergy Institute that he tagged me, but he actually tagged a different Adam (he has since added me to his tagged list, though!). I sorta put it out of my mind, but then Jennifer Mannion of Heal Pain Naturally tagged me from her post… so that’s when I figured the Universe was trying to tell me something!)

As the wind bloweth

Now, thinking differently about something you’re holding as a negative is good… and, in my experience, it can be like trying to keep a paper cup on a picnic table in a wind storm. You can try to keep your thoughts in the positive, but if you’ve got a strong wind — belief systems, in this case — that keep on blowing the same way they have been, then you can try all you want to keep that cup on the table, but it isn’t going to happen.

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Does a year of free one-on-one support sound good? Well, Wednesday is the last day to get in on the drawing.

Of course, even if you didn’t win, it’s still an amazingly sweet offer:

• three Homestudy DVD courses,
• two ebooks,
• a complete teleseminar with all the bells and whistles, and
• a partridge in a pear tree*

for less than one month’s tuition in only one of the live programs would run you.

If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s your chance; the free consulting drawing ends tomorrow. Just a friendly reminder.

Edit:

The drawing for the free year of consulting is complete; I’ll be notifying the winner and giving them the good news!

Also: this has been a week of scrambling, so I’ll be back to regular posting next week. Until then, there’s a bevy of posts (long un’s, too) that I put up this past week that haven’t gotten their fair share of comments, so feel free to dive into those and have some fun!

(*partridge and pear tree not included)