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ARE YOU A HUMMINGBIRD OR  A JACKHAMMER?

The world needs both!

Let me explain....
The writer Elizabeth Gilbert has said that the world has two different types of people: Jackhammers and hummingbirds.

Jackhammers have a "thing" that they feel passionate about.
It calls to them early on and they hammer away at it for their entire lives (or careers).

I am sometimes jealous of the jackhammer type people. 
When I think about a topic and the "go-to" person for that topic and I see that person hammering away at that thing for years and years and years and they just keep getting better and better and better.
I am so impressed by their focus and determination.

And then there are the hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds move around.
They go from thing to thing to thing, flower to flower.
They have a rich diversity of experiences and bring ideas from one place to the next. Jackhammers might be jealous of their adventures.

Why am I talking about this?

I am leaving in a few days for the Business of Therapy course with Lisa Dion and I am thinking about the people that are coming to this course and all of the energy that will be created in a room filled with
Jackhammers and Hummingbirds.

Lisa Dion is a jackhammer.  And many of the people who are registered for this course are as well. Gilbert, a self-proclaimed jackhammer says "we don’t look up and we don’t veer, and we’re just focused on that until the end of time."
Amazing, right?

I am 100% hummingbird. This is probably obvious.
There will be hummingbirds like me there also.  People who are interested in ALL the ideas.  Gilbert says the hummingbirds,
"bring an idea from here to over here, where you learn something else and you weave it in, then you take it here to the next thing you do."
Amazing, right?

What often happens is that the jackhammers think they should be more like the hummingbirds and of course, the hummingbirds think they should be more like the jackhammers.

The real goal.... be you!
Hammer away at the thing that you are passionate about or flitter around and pick up ideas from here, there and everywhere.
We need both types of people in the world.    

One is not better than the other - what matters is that you recognize your strengths and follow them in a way that is authentic to you.

Rumi says:
"Let yourself be silently drawn to what pulls you.
It will not lead you astray."

You may be pulled into one passionate focus or you might be pulled into a dozen different micro-passions.

Let yourself be silently drawn to what pulls you.

JEN'S JOURNAL

Sentence Stems:

A simple journaling technique is to simply respond to a few sentence stems with the first thing that comes to mind. 
Don't overthink it and also
WRITE IT DOWN. 
What you think you would write and what you actually write are not the same.

      If I had to choose between hummingbirds and jackhammers, I would definitely consider myself a:_____________________________.

The thing I love about being a (Jackhammer/hummingbird) is that ___________________________________________________.

The benefit to me of this trait is that it: ___________________________________________________.

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