The Balance of Willpower and Letting Go: The Gryphon Within

Wealth Matters Weekend Issue: Lessons from my own performance coaching session yesterday

Yesterday, I had an appointment on my calendar that was booked a few weeks back off of a cold-call message I received in my Linkedin inbox. Now like many of you, I get 100’s of these well-meaning spam messages per month from people prospecting for business or to cold-pitch their ventures to me for consideration and I ignore or auto-delete 99% of them. However, I have always believed in unexpected serendipity as I have too many gifts from the universe at the right time in my 25-year career that came out of “nowhere” because I have let my intuition do the thing that makes zero sense on paper when it comes to my time, energy, or resources.

I jumped on her zoom at our scheduled time with this individual yesterday without any recollection of why we were meeting, other than I was impressed by her pitch and message enough to say, “Yeah I will give you 30 minutes to tell me what you have to offer.”

I opened up the meeting by acknowledging that I was clueless as to what we were about to discuss…