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The Power of a Curious Mindset

I used to work with an emotional vampire...

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

I am not kidding, this person sucked the positivity and joy right out of me. Daily.
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One day, another co-worker and I were walking on our lunch break, and I was complaining about how this person always interrupted me and I couldn't get my work done.
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My coworker abruptly stopped in mid-stride, which in turn made me stop. She looked at me in earnest and asked, "Katrina, is this person preventing you from getting your work done?"
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It was an honest question. And the answer was quite simple.
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No. No they weren't.
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The revelation hit me like a ton of bricks, and I've carried it with me ever since.
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So now, whenever I feel like there is something blocking me my mind goes back to that moment.
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Instead of getting frustrated I get curious.
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🤔 Is there a lesson I'm supposed to learn from this?
🤔 Is there something more I could be doing?
🤔 Is there someone I should be helping?
🤔 Is something actually stopping me from doing or getting what I want?
🤔 Or am I just resisting what "what I want" looks like?
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It was such a simple micro moment, but it had a profound effect on me.
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I realized that the only real barriers in life are the excuses I tell myself, the situations I put myself in and the outcomes I'm willing to accept.
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Flipping my own script was a game changer.

The Power of a Curious Mindset

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Hi, I'm Katrina, a 20+ year marketing strategist helping people transform their businesses and lives through the power of curiosity. Twice a week I'll share highly valuable, debatably humorous and possibly life-changing emails about the mind-blowing things that can happen when you start asking the right questions.

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