WMS 9 - Listening? Is that really a SuperPower?
You were born with a superpower to make a contribution ๐ฒ
The problem is that most of us do not have a clue what our Superpower is and how to find it ๐ค๐
If you have ever felt, however fleetingly, that you are meant for more than just this, more than what you are now, more than something so undefinable then you, my friend, are like me and so many others.
You know there is something you have to do ๐ง
You know there is more โ
You know you have something to give ๐
But what is that missing thing?
I can tell you what it isโฆ
We are looking for your SuperPower! ๐ฅ๐
Your SuperPower is the piece in the jigsaw that will complete the picture and using your Superpower means you can contribute to the world
Your SuperPower is where you feel worthy, you feel happy, you feel joyous, you feel fulfilled...
...you feel SUPER! ๐
Hey there, everyone. Welcome to the what's my super power podcast with me, your host and part-time superhero, Nigel T Best. Okay. Sometimes you can feel like you're talking to nobody and it may well be that this podcast is listened to by nobody, but. My further and passionate hope is that at least one person will hear it.
[00:00:22] And one person will reveal their super power to themselves, to the world because we need superheroes at a time like this.
[00:01:01] All right. Welcome to the show, everybody. If this is the first time I've listening. Hello, welcome. Thank you. You are a bouncer. Be revealed as a superhero, and you're probably thinking who is this crazy guy? And the weird thing is, uh, the last thing I probably am is he's crazy. But that's probably the craziest thing about it because nobody is not crazy in this world.
[00:01:26] We're all a little bit mad, but we all have hidden within us a super power. I absolutely 100% believe it. And I, my job here on the podcast is to help you, as he stands up, pulls open his hoodie to reveal. There you go. That was good for the YouTube. Maybe not for the podcast, but a t-shirt with a big ass for superhero on it.
[00:01:55] Because look around us, look around us at the moment. What have we had? We've had the crazy time of the U S election and the uncertainty and how people there. Uh, revealing their super power and also perhaps their super villainy. Um, but also a lot of people standing around saying, Hey, look, we need help. We need help in this country, in the world, around the world, there are people crying out saying we need help.
[00:02:21] We need help. And who steps up in the movies when people are crying out for help? You got it. It's superheroes, my friends. Hey, it's superheroes. So looking for people with super powers, people to stand up and say, Hey, I am gonna make a difference. Now in some of the other podcasts episodes, have a listen back.
[00:02:45] You'll find out that I'm not talking about laser beam eyes or being Bulletproof or the ability to fly or any of those super superpowers. No, no, no, no. Now we're talking about real superpowers and this is the super power that has the ability to transform somebody's life. Some thing that is within you, that you can bring out and share that can make a difference.
[00:03:11] To this world and a difference to the people in the world for the better, for the good of everybody. This is how you contribute. And if you've ever sort of woken up or you've been sat there and you just daydream for a moment and we all do it, how you all sort of sit there and when we're comfortable and relaxed and your mind drifts off, and you just let your mind wander and you sort of, every soften, you might just have that feeling of.
[00:03:40] Work, what is it that I'm meant to do? What is it that I'm here to do? Because it feels like there should be something more than this. And if you've ever had that feeling, if you sort of doubt yourself and you think, God, do you know, what am I, am I just taking up space? That would be better used by somebody else?
[00:04:00] Or, you know, should I just get out of here, you know, is, is my life a waste you need to sort of just. Pause a second and go, no, no life is ever a waste. It just so happens that you haven't revealed your super power yet. And when you reveal your super power, my friend, you are absolutely in the right place at the right time.
[00:04:28] Because we need you. And it's those moments where we just relax and I know all this, all the people that talk about yoga, meditation and the mindfulness and the mindset, and they say, sometimes you just got to just relax, just relax, let your mind wander, let your mind sort of ideas. Come in, go out, just observe these ideas.
[00:04:49] And if you're ever getting those doubtful ones, if you're ever getting the ones. Well, you hear there's a voice inside your head and we've all got that voice. And that voice at this very moment in time is saying for goodness sake, nudge, don't tell people they've got a voice in their head, but I am. I'm saying, I'm saying, thank you very much.
[00:05:06] Yeah. Voice in my head. Thanks for that. But I'm going to say it anyway. We've got a voice in our head and in those quiet moments, sometimes that voice can get a bit shouty. That voice can get a bit dominant. That voice can take over that voice can kind of give you instructions. That voice can give you opinions of you.
[00:05:23] That aren't true in any way, shape or form. And we've got to think to ourselves in those moments, you know, when people meditate and they do the yoga and they just let their mind open up and they try and quiet and not voice, I'd say don't, you know, don't worry about that voice being loud or whatever, just acknowledge that that voice is there in your head.
[00:05:45] And I've got a really good friend, a couple of friends and they call it the script. So the script is screaming cause it's, it's reading from a script. Um, but this voice in your head is telling you, you know, good, you know, Goodyear, a waste of space. Oh, that always happens to you. You're totally useless. You can't do that.
[00:06:05] You know, nobody wants to hear your superpower. You don't have a superpower though. It's so ridiculous. You're you're just a normal person. In fact, you're useless. You're not even a normal person. You're, subnormal, you're abnormal. Um, there's nothing that you could contribute to someone just kind of nod and just go, yeah, thanks for that voice in my head.
[00:06:26] Thanks for that. But do you know what? You can go do one because I think half got something. I just need to work out what it is before I reveal it to myself, to my friends, to my family, to the world, because who knows. Who has the greatest superpower until they actually reveal it. Nobody knows. Do they. And the problem that we face at the moment is look, there are so many people out there in the world at the moment they need help.
[00:06:57] And I'm just recording this before I disappear off. Uh, I'd like to say, uh, I put my Cape on and fly as I go give some help, but now I don't, I get in the car, I'm going to drive, but, um, I'm going to help someone out who's he's in a, he's in a tight spot at the moment and they just need some help. And I always like to think that, um, you know, a super power can be as simple hours, if you are able to.
[00:07:27] Then you should, and it could be something as easy as out, so I'm able to give some help. So I think therefore I should, and some people might go well that isn't, that's a pretty crappy superpower. So we'll, hold on. Hold on. A superpower is to the person who receives that help. It could be exactly that we may dismiss it as being something and nothing and other people may turn a nose or petite and they may look down there, look down their nose at you, uh, and just go, that's no superpower, but hold on, hold on.
[00:08:08] The person who receives your assistance, your support, your help, your care, your whatever it is. Your time, your love, your energy, whatever it is. Does that person think that you're in that situation? A superhero damn right. The tail. Yeah. Hey, and here's the best thing about the whole thing when people say, well, why would you do that for nothing?
[00:08:34] What what's in it for you? So I'll tell you what, if you have ever helped someone and we all have. If you have ever helped someone, the feeling you get from doing something good and helping someone, I think that's, I think that's amazing. I think that is absolutely amazing. And that is to many. I'm going to get to come back to this to many it's seen as not a super power, but to a few.
[00:09:04] It is definitely seen as a superpower. Now, why is that important? Because. Whose opinion to we take into account when we decide whether we're going to do anything, whether we decide whether we're good at something, whether we, when we decide whether we're going to help or anything like that, we often take the opinion of the majority or the big, what we think is the majority.
[00:09:28] We take the opinion of what we think, you know, The world is going to say the world everyone's watching what you do with the whole world. I mean, first of all, if that's not happening, the whole world doesn't watch anyone, but we mentally, the voice in our head says, do you know what you, Bob, and again, in your car going down there and helping us know superpower, that's not really helping, is it?
[00:09:51] And a lot of people say you're an idiot. You know what? You're wasting your time doing that for, you're not really helping. Are you. And this is what stopping as revealing our superpower. We believe what the voice in our head says about the weight of opinion, what everyone else is thinking all the whole, you know, all these people are thinking, Oh, you're, you're an idiot.
[00:10:13] You know, you're not really helping you not doing this. You're not doing that. You know that that's not super bad and all the rest of them, we take the opinion and we go, okay, okay. We shrink back. We shrink back from. Being the super hot revealing that superpower being the superhero to the person that you're trying to help.
[00:10:31] And we've got to overcome that. So today's podcast really the message from that is, Hey, ignore what you think the whole world or everyone, every everyone is saying, because they're not in fact probably the vast majority of people. I haven't even paid it. You know, two seconds thought haven't even thought about it for one second.
[00:10:56] In fact, they didn't even think about it at all at all, but in our minds, we're thinking that they've all got an opinion and they're all, you know, voicing their opinion. Arters and they're, they're all casting, uh, an opinion. And, uh, and, and in a judging is the, not the know and what you need to think about your superpower.
[00:11:17] And how you reveal your superpower is you only need reveal your superpower to one person. Because if you start off just by helping one person just by helping one person, then that reveals your superpower. And now one person's reaction is going to tell you. Whether that was, you know, a good thing to do or not.
[00:11:38] And I tell you 101 times out of a hundred, you helping somebody is going to reveal that that is a very, very powerful, worthwhile, necessary superpower and to you to reveal it. So when you're thinking I can't help anyone, I can't help anyone. I'm in a terrible situation myself. I don't think I've got the ability to do anything.
[00:12:02] Well, Hey, Do you have a telephone? Hey, could you make a call? Hey, could you volunteer to help? So if somebody needs to call, you could answer the phone and just listen for 10 minutes. Yes. We've all got 10 minutes. Pretty much. Everyone's got a phone pretty much. Everyone's got the ability to listen. You could.
[00:12:27] Help someone else. So when, even when you think I've got nothing, I've got nothing because if you said, Oh yeah, I, um, you know, if you said I, you know, volunteer and help on telephones and are listened to people with problems, a lot of people go, Oh, what a waste of time? Most of those people. They'll be quick to judge won't they, most of those people just whinge about everything and they should just get on with life and they need to pull their socks up and all the rest of it and they don't need, they don't need all this help and everything else.
[00:12:56] That's your just get on with it. Okay. You might be thinking, yeah, that's what they're going to say. And you sh you shrink back from volunteering. You, you decide that you're not going to, you're not going to give that 10 minutes. You're not going to help out. And you don't do it. And the person that did want to speak to someone didn't speak to someone and they went downhill fast and it ended badly for them.
[00:13:22] I think T-cell, hang-up, I don't feel I've got a super power, um, because I wouldn't know what to say. Um, and, and I don't know, you know, if, if, if I could actually help someone, do you know what. If, if you've got the ability to listen, why don't just say, Hey, look, my name's Nigel. Just talk to me. Um, tell me what you're thinking and I'll just sit and listen.
[00:13:49] That could be the difference in someone's life. Now, though, that you think are out there judging you saying what a waste of time, these people, you can't help these people and all the rest of it. If you shrink back from being that, that, that say a pair of ears, that listening person, you might not be able to help, but to the person who pours out their problems or troubles to you, when you listen, that could be the difference to them.
[00:14:20] And if I was to ask that person at the end of that call, what do you think of that person? That's just listened to you and helped you there? Would you say that they are to a bit of a superpower there at listening? I bet you, they would turn around and go. I can have somebody. What a difference. They just listened and listened and listened and yes, it made a difference and it can be something as simple as that folks, simple, something as simple as our, it could be the power to just listen.
[00:14:52] So somebody else's situation, not judge them, not try and give them answers, not try and tell them you're wrong. You're right. You should do this. You should do that. But to just listen that my friends could be a super power and it could be your superpower, you might be the world's greatest listener, but if you've never.
[00:15:15] Tried if you've always shied away from it, if you've always felt that people will judge you for just being that person on the phone that listens, and you think that, that I don't want to be judged and I don't want to be thought of like that, you know? And I'm, I'm worried about what people think of me. If I did that, then now is the time when you silence the voice in your head and say, Hey, voice in my head, shut the up.
[00:15:41] I'm going to do this and I'm going to save it helps. And that is your first step to revealing your superpower. So when you say, well, what what's, Hey, what's my super power. It could just be listening. It could be something as simple as that. Well, hang on, hang on 168 hours in a week. And I'm a busy guy, you know, don't have a well, yeah, or I can spare 10 minutes.
[00:16:09] Those 10 minutes in that week could be the difference between someone having a terrible, terrible ending or someone starting a new beginning. And to them, you would be a superhero. You would have revealed your super power. And I don't see Marvel comics or anyone else in the movies. Saying. Oh, who's this?
[00:16:35] Who's this coming over the Hill. Who's he's coming to savers. Oh, it's super listening woman. No, you don't see that. You don't see a movie about that. Oh, what do they do? Well, every, every week for 10 minutes they sit and they just listen to someone talk. Oh, wow. Oh, that's not really going to make it very good movie.
[00:16:58] Is it? We're not in the business of making movies, folks, we're not in the business of fantasy and make believe and all the rest of it and all these other things that we would love to be able to do, you know, in terms of flying and things like that. No, we're grounded. Yeah. And what's my real superpower and your real superpower could just be the ability to listen to why not, if you've got 10 minutes and you're thinking, how can, how can I help?
[00:17:24] What is my super power? Try it. You might find out. You're quite good at it. And you might find out that you really enjoy it, and you might find out that that feeling of you having helped someone is a feeling that you have been craving. And you've been waking when you've been waking up and you've been thinking, what is it?
[00:17:42] What is it that I'm here to do? I feel a bit lost. I feel a bit, um, you know, all all. Let's see. I don't feel I've got a direction. Maybe this. Gives you a direction and it might be that you need help as well. And there's someone else who does the same for you. Wow. What a difference this could be, and this could be the start of something amazing, because if you listen to somebody in their life, turns around, it could just be that they then share what they learned from you.
[00:18:16] And they. Carry that on. They perpetuate it, they spread it and they listened to two people. And those two people, they each go, Hey, I'm going to do that. And they help to other people and they help to other people. Can you see how it multiplies so quickly, how it gets out there and how you can transform people's lives?
[00:18:37] Hey folks, when you say what's my super power, it isn't flying. It could be listening. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I hope that's given you room to think about something and say, Hey, start small, start small. But the smallest things sometimes make the biggest difference in people's lives, but you can start small.
[00:19:02] You can start right here. You can, you can have a look online, you can pick up the phone, you can say, Hey look, would you like someone to help, you know, just volunteer? Or if you've got a friend, look, Hey, just phoned me out 10 minutes. Just tell me, just tell me, tell me how I, you know, whatever it is, that's troubling.
[00:19:18] You I'll listen. I'll listen at the end of it. I'll just say thanks. And, and that's that, and it starts with something like that. When you see a giant snowball, where did it start? It started with a little snowball and it grew today could be the day that you're making that little snowball and let's see how big you can grow it.
[00:19:40] Okay. My name is Nigel T Best. Thank you so much for listening to the what's my super power podcast. I will see you next time, where we will help more people reveal their super power. Until then STAY SUPER!