Feedback WANTED

OK let’s put in a massive tone circuit breaker here – I’ve turned 180 degrees and my new focus is 100% on helping people achieve happiness, trite as that may sound.

No longer will my agenda focus around my “money-making”.

My new philosophy of life now is this: “It is a privilege for me to be alive today – in what ways can I help others to become better people?”

Please read the next few paragraphs carefully then think about what it means for you because I want your feedback and/or opinion on something that’s close to my heart.

Right now my daughter’s going through huge dramas in her new career as an ambulance officer – dramas apparently caused by other people who seem to be more interested in themselves than in doing simple little things that would help her tremendously to gain confidence in her chosen profession. She spent 3 whole years earning a college degree with just one goal in mind – is it fair for this to be derailed by a ‘random’ colleague she has been rostered to work alongside to be mentored for 8 weeks? Instead her experience with this one individual has been full of heartache and public humiliation.

So to my question – what can be done if other people put roadblocks in your path? Or to make it more relevant for you reading this online, is there any way to move forward if somebody gets in the way of a good idea/opportunity on or offline?

Has this sort of thing ever happened in your life – let’s say you dared to dream a big dream, made plans and started to take action… But then the co-operation you needed from a key decision-maker evaporated, and the door slammed firmly shut.

If anything like this happened to you, I’d love to have you briefly share it with me. What was the impact on your spirit? If your determination got dented was that severe enough to be a show-stopper? And if you were able to re-group how did you find a way forward?

Ideally I’d like to have a feedback form below for you to complete. Instead here’s my simpler workaround so you can tell me your story and/or provide an insight to the problem of what to do if people put obstacles in your way.

I’ve created a new email account strictly for you to send feedback to me on this blog.

strictlyfeedbacktostew@gmail.com

To help make it easier for you to respond let me make these promises:

Your email will NOT be added to a general list of mine – so you will not be asked to opt-in or respond to an autoresponder. This means you will not be bombarded with emails from me – hurrah! Any list building I do will happen elsewhere, I promise. In fact I might make it difficult for people to join my newsletter list. The other promise to you now is – your email address will NEVER be shared with anyone else.

So go ahead and copy/paste this email address into the “TO:” field of a new email in your mail program and share your experiences and thoughts:

strictlyfeedbacktostew@gmail.com

One more thing, I will treat your responses with the strictest confidentiality. I will never write anything which could later identify you or your situation. That’s my third promise. Yes I’ll doubtless write a summary article later but nobody else will ever know who made the original comments.

Just to remind you what my goal is here – it’s to find out from YOU whether you ever had obstacles, in the form of other people, blocking your progress. And what you did about it; what are your success stories? Or if you are still held back, what do you think would help get you back to where you could have a winning outlook on life?

I’m Stew Shaw and I’m here to help you.

Wishing you all the very best in every aspect of your life.

– SS