What You Have In Common With Po & Master Shifu (on today's Q&A Call 11:30-1pm EST)

You know that scene in Kung Fu Panda, where master Shifu walks in on Po doing a full split 10 feet off the floor as he eats his feelings, steeling Monkey's almond cookies?

It was a breakthrough moment.

Prior to that, Po and Shifu both were struggling

Po struggling:

Po loved kung foo so much that he stayed and hoped that Shifu could teach him
Then failure after failure…Po tries to give up
He didn’t think he deserved to be there,
that he wasn’t enough to be the Dragon Warrior (too fat, not good enough at Kung Foo)
“How are you going to turn THIS into the Dragon Warrior?”…Shifu has no answer

And Shifu struggling:

Making Master Ugway wrong & arguing with him that Po couldn’t possibly be the Dragon Warrior
to accept that Po was the Dragon Warrior
Offended/insulted by Po’s lack of experience in Kung Foo
He tries to get Po to quit, but Po stays. He won’t quit…until he does
But Shifu stops Po from leaving
for the first time…Shifu realizes he needs to trust Ugway that Po actually IS the Dragon Warrior
But he still doesn’t know how he’s gong to turn Po into the Dragon Warrior

Then the breakthrough moment!

Shifu hears Po raiding the kitchen and walks in on Po as he’s eating his feelings “What…I eat when I’m upset ok?”

Shifu then tests the power of Po’s food motivation by hinting where Monkey hides his almond cookies and then pretends to walk out.

Shifu immediately returns, catching Po 10 feet off the floor in a full split as he mows down Monkey’s almond cookies.

Shifu realizes Po’s weaknesses are actually strengths!

“When you focus on kung fu, when you concentrate, you stink. But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the five. I now see that the way to get through to you is with...THIS (bowl of dumplings).”

Shifu realizes he can leverage Po’s food motivation to train him.

So what about you?

Are you going about things the hard way like Po and Shifu were?

Come to the call today and let’s uncover YOUR superpower, SO THAT YOU CAN LEVERAGE IT!

11:30-1pm EST

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83041347811

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