decide you can - episode 3 (buy in for our ideas)
We're back again and excited to share our next episode with you - it's a whole 3 minutes longer than our usual episode and that's largely because this was a topic we both have loads to talk about.
Susie started us off with an awesome quote that goes some way in summing up our intentions when we are problem solving and trying to implement something:
Almost every successful person starts their journey with two beliefs: the future is better than the present and I have the power to make it so
We talk about the different approaches we each have as we try to get buy-in from those around us to help move our ideas forward. The key message we come back to is that it's important to ensure emotion doesn’t get too heavily involved to allow your ideas to stand up and be accepted on their own merit.
Buy-in and idea generation is one that we both have to practice in our day to day lives and so it's always interesting when it's brought up for discussion, even if it was by our own design! I think that knowing it is something we both deal with regularly means it makes it easier to use each other as sounding boards for future ideas.... Susie will often come to me to seek out my thoughts on a topic and I do the same with Susie. It's helpful having someone further removed from a situation that can remind you that whilst the idea might be great, is it what someone actually needs right now and do they realise it?
The topic of feedback was raised a few times and building the resilience to not take it too personally is something which plants the seed for another discussion at another time (we're already 3 minutes longer this week!).
My closing reflections cover off the challenge Susie set me last week where she suggested I take the advice of Dan Pink and apply 20% of my week to my own development or doing something that was very different to my business-as-usual week.
We really hope you enjoy this week's episode as much as we enjoyed making it. As always, if you'd like to share your ideas or thoughts on this, or any other topic we've chatted about you can get us on Twitter, Instagram or decideyoucan[at]gmail[dot]com.