Davidson Hang Reflections and Lessons from a life worth living

Starting something new. I am creating daily vlogs on YouTube, Committing to my blog, and podcast has helped me process so many of these emotions that many of us are going through right now.

These are my reflections on the things we've worked on together and how she's helped me reach so many of my goals in life inside and outside of work.

Ten things I learned from my manager-Manager of the Year award during our Annual Sales Kick-Off

I love sharing my reflections with you all because it helps me process things and it ends up helping people during the process.

1. Keeping it simple- She's a pro at communication. She's always concise and has pushed us to simplify everything. Every email or conversation with a client. She's a huge advocate of less is more.
2. Focus- everyone knows I have so many things that I would like to accomplish- Being involved with the LinkedIn Asian Alliance has granted me some of my best memories, but at the end of the day crushing my role will allow me the space to be able to dedicate to other things. She's a massive advocate of excelling at your day to day before you take on additional responsibilities. I'm grateful that she helps me stay grounded throughout a hectic last six months.
3. Time management and calendar management- what a valuable skill in the world of distractions. By color-coding my calendar- it helps me focus on my core activities.
4. Taking care of self and energy management- She always makes sure that we are doing okay as a human being first, and that simple check-in means the world to me. Obviously, we all have a job to do, but she's super aware of reading people's energy and can tell when something is off. It's nice to know that she cares about us as human beings and, during the hiring process, admits to hiring kind, good-hearted human beings first.
5. Being adaptive to everyone's needs- she's super inclusive and is able to get everyone's opinions so every team member feels heard. That is such a powerful skill and truly takes compassion and adaptability to be able to be so understanding all of the time.
6. Knowing your business well and build a strong foundation- Understanding the ins and outs of your business is crucial and, to be honest, I did not focus on that as much as I should have in the beginning. I am doing a much better job at it now because I realized that taking LinkedIn Learning courses on how to read a P&L and understanding strategy a lot more will help me not only in excelling as an Account Executive but as a human being too.
7. Not getting distracted by external things- She's so incredibly focused on coaching and helping others get promoted. Clarity is her super power-her desk is so clean, and you can tell that she is entirely present because of how clarity of thought and words.
8. Understand everyone's strengths and areas of opportunity- She's able to build a well-rounded team through understanding how we all operate and pushing us to work on our weaknesses to become more well-rounded professionals. It's no surprise that our team is excelling so much because she's able to help understand why some of our weaknesses is preventing us becoming the best versions of ourselves.
9. Having bigger goals- A mark of a great manager is seeing greatness in her team before they even see it themselves. I want to say that I always think of myself as an intelligent human being, but she pushes us to think bigger and has a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) which, what do you know actually works.
10. Joy in the process- The last team meeting we spent it playing pictionary together, which was a lot of fun. She knows when to work hard and play hard too. It's awesome to see us laugh and smile and reading the room to be able to pivot when we need it.

Thank you, KP. I appreciate your leadership, and I'm so grateful that we get to build dreams together through active listening and execution.

Some of my favorite passages from the book Conversations with God book 3. Shout out to Accomplishment Coaching to introduce me to the great Neale Donald Walsch

"Through you, I can know every aspect of Me. The perfection of the snowflake, the awesome beauty of the rose, the courage of lions, the majesty of eagles, all resides in you. In you I have placed all of these things—and one thing more: the consciousness to be aware of it."

"Life is a single occurrence, an event in the cosmos that is happening right now. All of it is happening. Everywhere. There is no “time” but now. There is no “place” but here." "Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result."

"You've moved away from each other. You've torn apart your families, disassembled your smaller communities in favor of huge cities. In these big cities there are more people, but fewer “tribes,” groups, or clans whose members see their responsibility as including responsibility for the whole. So, in effect, you have no elders. None at arm's reach, in any event."

"Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. This is the great polarity. This is the primal duality. Everything, ultimately, breaks down to one of these. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based in one of these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love." "Most people believe if they “have” a thing (more time, money, love—whatever), then they can finally “do” a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on vacation, buy a home, undertake a relationship), which will allow them to “be” a thing (happy, peaceful, content, or in love). In actuality, they are reversing the Be-Do-Have paradigm. In the universe as it really is (as opposed to how you think it is), “havingness” does not produce “beingness,” but the other way around. First you “be” the thing called “happy” (or “knowing,” or “wise,” or “compassionate,” or whatever), then you start “doing” things from this place of beingness—and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you've always wanted to “have.”

"Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the “damage” you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions. Do what you can do. Then let it rest. That's easier said than done. Sometimes I feel so guilty. Guilt and fear are the only enemies of man."

"Yet I tell you this: So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them."

"Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper."

Let me know what you think about this book. Has anyone else read it? What books has anyone been reading that they would recommend to their peers during this time?

These are some of the passages from Conversations with God book 3 that resonated with me.

Let me know if any of these resonate with you too.

1. "They see a health-care system that is really a diseasecare system, spending one-tenth of its resources on preventing disease, and nine-tenths on managing it, and deny that profit motive is what stops any real progress on educating people in how to act and eat and live in a way which promotes good health."
2. "For what you resist, persists. Only what you hold can disappear."
3. “Right” and “wrong” are philosophical polarities in a human value system which have nothing to do with ultimate reality—a point which I have made repeatedly throughout this dialogue. They are, furthermore, not even constant constructs within your own system, but rather, values which keep shifting from time to time. You are doing the shifting, changing your mind about these values as it suits you"
4. "In truth, there is no such reality. There is only one moment, and that is the eternal moment of Now."
5. "Fear is that which you are not. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is the opposite of love, which you have created in your reality so that you may know experientially That Which You Are."
6. "This is the main difference between your culture—which is a “baby” culture, really; a primitive culture—and the highly evolved cultures of the universe. The most significant difference is that in highly evolved cultures, all sentient beings are clear that there is no separation between themselves and what you call “God.” They are also clear that there is no separation between themselves and others. They know that they are each having an individual experience of the whole."
7. "Their First Guiding Principle is: We Are All One."
8. "Yet right now one-fifth of the world's people are using four-fifths of the world's resources. And you show no signs of changing that equation. There is enough for everybody if you would stop thoughtlessly squandering all of it on the privileged few. If all people used resources wisely, you would use less than you do with a few people using them unwisely. Use the resources, but don't abuse the resources."
9. "As for communication, a HEB uses as his first level of communication the aspect of his being which you would call feelings. HEBs are aware of their feelings and the feelings of others, and no attempt is ever made by anyone to hide feelings."
10. "If you decided that “we are all one,” you would cease treating each other the way you do. If you decided that “there's enough,” you would share everything with everyone. If you decided that “there's nothing we have to do,” you would stop trying to use “doingness” to solve your problems, but rather, move to, and come from, a state of being which would cause your experience of those “problems” to disappear, and the conditions themselves to thus evaporate."

These are my top ten takeaways from the summit of greatness in 2020.

1. How to build a community by adding value to everyone and serving the world

2. Being of service and continue enriching the lives of your members

3. Surround yourself with amazing people

4. Live a life of gratitude, cherish the down moments because they will lead you to where you are right now

5. Practice acknowledging people. Lewis is a master of acknowledgment, which is such a valuable skill the more people you impact in your life. Practice being with people and all of the different emotions that come up in life, especially during a pandemic.

6. Play a bigger game- when you think you are reaching the outer limits of your comfort zone, think bigger. You will surprise yourself when you set bigger goals for yourself.

7. Create a platform for others to share their stories. Humans love being able to hear stories and the bad ones are the most relatable.

8. His friendship with Jay Shetty touched my heart. They really do care about each other you see it in their interactions.

9. Rolling with the punches despite all of the technical difficulties, he can still create and not make it mean anything about himself and move forward.