Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Pair of Ducks

13 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational segment, the speaker addresses listeners who feel stuck or frustrated and encourages them to pivot toward new goals without waiting for perfection. She shares a Facebook group anecdote where a member credited "channeling" the speaker to accomplish a task, illustrating the idea that borrowing traits or mindsets from multiple people—likened to a "pair of ducks" or even a flock—can help individuals act more effectively. The core message is that personal growth involves integrating diverse influences rather than remaining a single, static identity.

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If you are feeling lack, if you are frustrated, if you are whatever, whatever, whatever, and trying to move into that new and pivot to that new you, you can't— you don't have to wait to pivot and be awesome at sales and do all of these things. One of our Dream It, Do It, Done members yesterday posted in our Facebook group. She said, Danielle, I was at the whatever getting something done and I did it. I channeled you and I did it. Sometimes you have to do that. You have to bring a part of somebody else in, in order to do that. And I say pair of ducks, but sometimes it could be 20 of them, and you have to borrow a little bit from this person and a little bit from that person and a little bit of— as you're learning and growing, you don't just have to be one thing.