PP 609: Finding Your New Yes with Aviv Shahar

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Quick Show Notes – Aviv Shahar:

“Every day is a day to improve what we do. The journey to mastery is made of many steps.” – Aviv Shahar

Are you shaping your life? Or are you allowing outside people and circumstances to determine your yesses and purpose?

Aviv Shahar, Founder and President of Aviv Consulting, consultant to Fortune 100 and 500 companies and the host and author of Create New Futures, joins Kim for an amazingly deep and eye opening conversation which is guaranteed to change the way you look at your life and the opportunities in front of you.

Highlights:

2:59 Life centering moments
07:19 Aviv’s second formative moment
17:20 Finding your new “Yes”
19:17 Fear
21:02 Realigning his purpose
23:49 The Five Energies
29:57 The Harvesting Principle
39:29 The Four Levels of Listening

“Every day is a day to improve what we do. The journey to mastery is made of many steps.” – @avivshahar . Listen as Aviv and @thekimsutton discuss #purpose, refining our yesses and more: https://thekimsutton.com/pp609 #positiveproductivity #podcastClick To Tweet

Resources – Aviv Shahar:

Create New Futures (Aviv’s book)
Create New Futures (Aviv’s podcast)
Episode 218 with Say Gabriel
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Inspirational Quotes:

“Everyday is a day to improve what we do. The journey to mastery is made of many steps.” ~Aviv Shahar

“I will not be governed by events or by messages from other people. I am here to shape my life.” ~Aviv Shahar

“Sometimes you receive difficult messages. You’re not defined by those messages. You’re defined by the response that you choose to make.” ~Aviv Shahar

“When we change, when we learn new things, when we make new choices, we literally are changing the topography of our brain and of our mind. And, we therefore are able to see the world differently.” ~Aviv Shahar

“The most important word in the English language is a three letter word. It’s the word “Yes.”” ~Aviv Shahar

“Every “yes” requires a “no” somewhere else.” ~Kim Sutton

“The Harvesting Principle in innovation and development points to the recognition that there is something you are doing right now that you don’t necessarily find how it’s to do with your purpose and what it will do for you in the future. But if you stay attuned inside, and if you have good reasons to do why you do what you do, then, more likely than not, in small or in large way, the endeavor, the effort of your particular activity or anything you do can be harvested tomorrow to something you’ll be called to do next month, next year, or the year after.” ~Aviv Shahar

“Some of the reasons why people get burnt out is because they are displaced their capacity to listen inside and because they operate with a sense of anxiety and low self-esteem.” ~Aviv Shahar

“To connect to yourself, you have to connect to your reason and purpose as to why you’re here. To connect to your reason and purpose as to why you’re here, you have to connect to yourself” ~Aviv Shahar