My 11-year old son loves going to the movies.\u00a0To be fair, he also loves the exorbitantly priced popcorn and blue slushies (ice drink).\u00a0 Anytime a new movie trailer comes out at the theater or on TV, he becomes hypnotized and fixated.\u00a0 Adventures, animation, wizards, dragons, anything 3-D, etc. are all up his alley.\u00a0 He recently gave the new Karate Kid a definite \u201cten\u201d and even went back to see the new Toy Story 3-D a second time today.\u00a0 But understand, he really isn’t that particular about the movies and simply looks for any excuse to go to the movies with his parents,\u00a0grandparents, or friends … about once a month.<\/p>\n
The other day, when I asked him why he loves going to the movies, he simply replied, “It just makes\u00a0me\u00a0happy Dad.” Good enough for me\u2026even with the escalating prices for movies and popcorn nowadays. \u00a0Based on watching his face during countless movies, he truly enjoys the\u00a0explosion of colors and visual effects on the massive movie screen and the powerful sound system that vibrates\u00a0his chest.\u00a0 He suspends disbelief and fully enters the world created on the screen with child-like wonder. He also relishes the comfy movie-theater chairs,\u00a0the snacks, the cold drinks, and all the belly laughing he usually does.\u00a0 Like most kids, he enjoys funny movies, animations, and big adventures.\u00a0 Like his old man, he does not like scary horror movies.<\/p>\n
As a business coach for nearly 20 years, I can tell you that business owners love going to the movies\u00a0as well.\u00a0 In fact, they do\u00a0it constantly and mostly on company time.\u00a0 While they are forever watching movies, it’s not at the movie theater and they’re not\u00a0eating popcorn.\u00a0 Unfortunately,\u00a0they’re watching “internal movies”\u00a0all day long in their heads.<\/strong> And, unlike my son, they don’t seem to\u00a0choose the comedies or adventures.\u00a0 They evidently prefer the horror movies\u00a0since that seems to be the\u00a0predominant\u00a0type of flick playing in\u00a0their heads.<\/p>\n As your virtual business coach, allow me to ask you\u00a0some unusual but valuable business coaching questions.\u00a0 What types of\u00a0movies are you projecting in\u00a0your head most of the time?\u00a0 Are they\u00a0inspiring adventures or\u00a0scary horror\u00a0movies? \u00a0Positive movies with\u00a0good outcomes or negative movies with bad and sad endings?\u00a0 Movies that are mostly empowering or truly disempowering?\u00a0 And finally, and most importantly, do\u00a0your internal\u00a0movies support your success or sabotage it?<\/strong> This Growth Coach cautions you to select your movies wisely!<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether you want to admit it or not, we all are continually running\u00a0movies in our heads.\u00a0 At a minimum, we are holding conversations with ourselves all day long … just stop and listen to the on-going chatter in your head.\u00a0 A constant story dialogue (mostly\u00a0positive or negative) is occurring in\u00a0the background of our brain throughout the day.\u00a0 Most times, we also\u00a0display images (some positive, some negative) with the dialogue.\u00a0 We play out various business scenarios in our heads.\u00a0 Bottom line, they are emotionally charged shows\u00a0with predominantly positive\u00a0or negative expectations.\u00a0 We are constantly projecting coming attractions (good, bad or ugly)\u00a0in our heads and these then serve as self-fulfilling prophecies.<\/strong> Therefore, choose your movies carefully!<\/p>\n As your Growth Coach, I encourage you to slow down and reflect on the movies that you are playing in your head.\u00a0 Be fully aware.\u00a0 Awaken to the type of internal movies you play.\u00a0 Question the movies and challenge the movies.<\/strong> You are in control of the movie projector.\u00a0\u00a0Stop\u00a0allowing negative dialogue, images,\u00a0expectations, and story lines to flash in your brain. <\/strong> Interrupt the horror movies and change them into grand adventures where you are the hero and things turn out great. <\/strong>After all, it’s your life and business, your brain, and you get to pick the movies.<\/p>\n Enjoy the movies and go easy on the popcorn and all that fake butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My 11-year old son loves going to the movies.\u00a0To be fair, he also loves the exorbitantly priced popcorn and blue slushies (ice drink).\u00a0 Anytime a new movie trailer comes out at the theater or on TV, he becomes hypnotized and fixated.\u00a0 Adventures, animation, wizards, dragons, anything 3-D, etc. are all up his alley.\u00a0 He recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[855,857,876,1105,858,861,863,897,864,935,1110,865,867],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-coaching","tag-benefits-of-business-coaching","tag-business-coach","tag-business-coaching","tag-business-coaching-guarantee","tag-business-owner","tag-business-systems","tag-entrepreneur","tag-growth-coach","tag-leadership","tag-marketing","tag-positive-thinking","tag-small-business-management","tag-strategic-mindset"],"yoast_head":"\n