Comments on: Home http://haveanaverageday.org Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Moon-Willems http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-26 Chris Moon-Willems Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:28:49 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-26 This is a great story Michael and puts a new focus on living an EXTRAordinary life. Thank you! This is a great story Michael and puts a new focus on living an EXTRAordinary life. Thank you!

]]> By: Chris Moon-Willems http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-24 Chris Moon-Willems Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:34:42 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-24 Nice one Neil. You never fail to hit the spot for me. Thank you. Nice one Neil. You never fail to hit the spot for me. Thank you.

]]> By: Shan Simpson http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-22 Shan Simpson Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:34:58 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-22 Wow - I have a huge grin on my face - A trusted friend sent me this and when I started to read this I thought she had gone mad - I encourge everyone to read it all. Now I can see why she sent this too me! - Knowing me so well and seeing that I was trying too hard to be Exceptional....... Thank you - I have taken the challenge to be truly 'average'...... :) Feeling very Free and Average.. Wow – I have a huge grin on my face – A trusted friend sent me this and when I started to read this I thought she had gone mad –

I encourge everyone to read it all.

Now I can see why she sent this too me! – Knowing me so well and seeing that I was trying too hard to be Exceptional…….

Thank you – I have taken the challenge to be truly ‘average’…… :)

Feeling very Free and Average..

]]> By: Renee Clausen http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-21 Renee Clausen Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:00:33 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-21 This to me was a very interesting thought. Being a mother of a teenager who actually did end their life I often had the thought of how blessed we are when we have an ordinary day. I long for the day when I just went to work and my son just went to school and we came home in the late afternoon and ate together and said ordinary things to each other, enjoyed each other's company. Much like your thought of being average, we take it for granted and don't value the average or ordinary. Instead of wanting more, being satisfied. Sometimes being ordinary, average and satisfied are belssings. May I add, Have an Ordinary Day, It is a blessing we often overlook. Thanks for the article, loved it! This to me was a very interesting thought.

Being a mother of a teenager who actually did end their life I often had the thought of how blessed we are when we have an ordinary day. I long for the day when I just went to work and my son just went to school and we came home in the late afternoon and ate together and said ordinary things to each other, enjoyed each other’s company.

Much like your thought of being average, we take it for granted and don’t value the average or ordinary. Instead of wanting more, being satisfied. Sometimes being ordinary, average and satisfied are belssings. May I add, Have an Ordinary Day, It is a blessing we often overlook. Thanks for the article, loved it!

]]> By: Luc Galoppin http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-20 Luc Galoppin Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:42:03 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-20 This is a wonderful initiative and a piece of advice that I should have absorbed immediately upon receiving your email. Not doing so caused some damage, but at least I was able to derive some lessons. Full story here: http://www.reply-mc.com/2010/06/28/some-mails-are-better-never-sent-part-2/ Best regards, Luc Galoppin This is a wonderful initiative and a piece of advice that I should have absorbed immediately upon receiving your email. Not doing so caused some damage, but at least I was able to derive some lessons.
Full story here: http://www.reply-mc.com/2010/06/28/some-mails-are-better-never-sent-part-2/
Best regards,
Luc Galoppin

]]> By: Evelyne http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-19 Evelyne Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:24:17 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-19 This is the most challenging mission for me. I love to be outstanding, exceptional, larger than life. After all how else to be on stage, as a coach, a speaker, someone who stands out by nature? Who is here to empower you to create your dreams?! I will admit that the concept has more depth than I could grasp right away. It's one of those articles you can easily read, nod and walk past. At least I can. After all it's about average and that doesn't really apply to me. I can't be average even if I tried! Are you kidding me? I was born to be great! After a few years of coming across the concept, I started using it and for a day or 2 I can do it. I started introducing my clients to it. And they benefit from it. My actors got jobs that way, got through high pressure performances with their soul and ego intact (try that, double whammy!) and they just start to relax. And then my coach challenged ME on this again. Oh dear, I realize there is another level to this I had missed. My language gives me away. I said: ok I'll be exceptionally average today! Of course I am joking but to every joke there is truth. So I've set myself the ultimate challenge (ahhh I did it again!) Revision. I am going to commit to 5 weeks of averaging. So I'll do some exercise, serve my clients, call new people and take average care of my life. It's a challenge for me who wants it great on a daily basis (and is not too far off at times) But then again, my coach (Rich Litvin- who's not exactly an average coach but has grasped the concept really well!!) said: Evelyne you're one always up for a challenge, right? This is the most challenging mission for me. I love to be outstanding, exceptional, larger than life. After all how else to be on stage, as a coach, a speaker, someone who stands out by nature? Who is here to empower you to create your dreams?!

I will admit that the concept has more depth than I could grasp right away. It’s one of those articles you can easily read, nod and walk past. At least I can. After all it’s about average and that doesn’t really apply to me. I can’t be average even if I tried! Are you kidding me? I was born to be great!

After a few years of coming across the concept, I started using it and for a day or 2 I can do it. I started introducing my clients to it. And they benefit from it. My actors got jobs that way, got through high pressure performances with their soul and ego intact (try that, double whammy!) and they just start to relax.

And then my coach challenged ME on this again. Oh dear, I realize there is another level to this I had missed. My language gives me away. I said: ok I’ll be exceptionally average today! Of course I am joking but to every joke there is truth. So I’ve set myself the ultimate challenge (ahhh I did it again!) Revision.

I am going to commit to 5 weeks of averaging. So I’ll do some exercise, serve my clients, call new people and take average care of my life.

It’s a challenge for me who wants it great on a daily basis (and is not too far off at times)
But then again, my coach (Rich Litvin- who’s not exactly an average coach but has grasped the concept really well!!) said: Evelyne you’re one always up for a challenge, right?

]]> By: deirdre Maguire http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-18 deirdre Maguire Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:23:18 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-18 Thats my first time listening to your show Michael . I met you at the London I can do it Week end where I actually apologised to you because I didnt know who "you" were. In my eyes You were just an "average" person ! I didnt know until the p r lady came over , looked a bit strangely at me and tried to usher you away ! Thank you for ignoring her and giving me the time an average fellow human being deserves . . . Prompted by your engaging gentle manner I bought your book and c d set and I am happy to report that your average work of excellence has inspired me to move forward in my own average coaching career through which I help change the lives (or not ) of the odd average passer by . thank you Michael Deirdre from Ireland Stepping Stones Thats my first time listening to your show Michael . I met you at the London I can do it Week end where I actually apologised to you because I didnt know who “you” were. In my eyes You were just an “average” person ! I didnt know until the p r lady came over , looked a bit strangely at me and tried to usher you away ! Thank you for ignoring her and giving me the time an average fellow human being deserves . . .
Prompted by your engaging gentle manner I bought your book and c d set and I am happy to report that your average work of excellence has inspired me to move forward in my own average coaching career through which I help change the lives (or not ) of the odd average passer by . thank you Michael Deirdre from Ireland Stepping Stones

]]> By: Katherine http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-17 Katherine Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:20:56 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-17 FANTASTIC! X FANTASTIC! X

]]> By: shara http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-15 shara Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:53:36 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-15 I just forward this article to all of my Art Student who I lecture not to be an average ! shara I just forward this article to all of my Art Student who I lecture not to be an average ! shara

]]> By: Dawn Hamilton http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-14 Dawn Hamilton Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:36:11 +0000 http://haveanaverageday.org/#comment-14 This is brilliant Michael! You are a genuis & a gift to us all. We all seem so driven these days in our quest to achieve, achieve, achieve, manifest our goals & be wonderful at all times. It's great to have goals, etc., but "have an average day" reminded me to take a deep breath, let go, relax, and enjoy the present moment. Thank you & blessings This is brilliant Michael! You are a genuis & a gift to us all. We all seem so driven these days in our quest to achieve, achieve, achieve, manifest our goals & be wonderful at all times. It’s great to have goals, etc., but “have an average day” reminded me to take a deep breath, let go, relax, and enjoy the present moment.
Thank you & blessings

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