The Broken Arrow


Have you ever had the chance to do something that you haven’t done before because you thought you couldn’t !!!  or worse you don’t  even try because you feel dumb or stupid or you fear that someone will laugh at you. Do we put limitations on ourselves?

How do you know when your done, or how do you know when you think you just can’t do it. Now this can be anything, leaving home for the first time, travelling, starting up your own business or even getting to the front door in the case of people who suffer from agoraphobia. How many of us have gone through the pain and just when you think your ready to quit and its over you push through the pain barrier and feel the exhilaration of DOING whatever it is.

WOW ……isn’t it such a great feeling to succeed. Most of us give up just as we are about to make a breakthrough or worse, we make the breakthrough and don’t even know we have. and therefore not we can’t appreciate our efforts. We don’t give ourselves enough credit sometimes.
This Video tells the story……………


I was recently at an event for Entrepreneurs and as usual I was sitting at the front . This can be a double edged sword, its great to be able to see everything that’s going on but invariably you get picked to do stuff. In the most part I don’t mind. This event however had some surprises.

There was a guest  NLP instructor (Neuro linguistic programming)  she wanted a volunteer to break a real arrow with their throat. she asked for a show of hands to see if we thought it was actually possible to break and arrow with your throat and presumably not being maimed in the process.. As I was sitting at the front of the room I didn’t put my hand up as I figured that I would get picked, being so close.  I  was like yeah right. your not getting me to do that especially as you had to sign a waiver in case something went wrong. Luckily she picked someone else Phew I thought.!!

little did I know she had a real arrow for everyone to break. AGH I thought. One by one people stood up, and gathered in a circle and each person went to the slaughter, with everyone shouting  you can do it, you can do it……… YOU CAN DO IT !!!!

I pushed myself forward. once getting there all my natural thoughts left me and I was in a state of paralyses, a friend of mine had my camera. what happened next. Well because I was in a state of shock, a little like  “a deer in the headlights”. I didn’t realize that I wasn’t pushing against the arrow and more, I thought the person holding the block of wood with the arrow shaft embeded was supposed to be pushing toward me. in a couple of seconds I realized what I was supposed to be doing. however this was still  whilst my throat was pressed against the arrow and all that was happening was the arrow was being bent. I didn’t feel the pressure of the arrow as my mind had taken a holiday.

Then something miraculous happened in my head, my thoughts returned and I realized what I was supposed to do. I pushed forward and voila, ONE Broken Arrow……

Its funny how the brain works and after that experience it reaffirmed my thoughts that it really is only fear and our own self limiting beliefs. But sometimes we do need a reminder and who cares how I look I Did it.

I had the privilege of doing something that I wouldn’t even have fathomed I would do.