Stuck On An Escalator - "I Need Some Help!"

Okay, I need some assistance here. I recently saw this video clip and want to use it for a coaching tool. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated if you would watch the clip and then help me to make connections or parallels between a person's personal life (physical, emotional, spiritual, relationships, financial, etc.) and also business life. The clip is not long at all but very pointed.

So, "can someone please help me here?"

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Posted on Tue, January 6, 2009 by Ron Beasley filed under

8 comments (Add your own)

1. Ryan wrote:: Im really not the person to make suggestions but you can go a lot of different ways with this.

*Personally I wish I could use this clip at my office and attach it to some of the emails I get with the phrase “After you have actually thought about it for more than 10 minutes please send me an email”.

- Perception is reality: being insecure and doubting your own self reliance or worth can blind you from accomplishing the easiest of goals.

- In your life: Staying in the same routine (or rut) and not expanding your mind (way of thinking) outside the habitual norms can cripple you when the unexpected comes. This can also tie into what makes people great – Vision: the ability to anticipate possible future events and developments
Tue, January 6, 2009 @ 1:47 PM
2. Ron Beasley wrote:: Great thoughts!!! Thanks.
Tue, January 6, 2009 @ 6:37 PM
3. Patrick wrote:: In a "down" economy, poised for multiple, cross sectored industrial bailouts and Senate hearings of discovery, root causes and bi-partisan action plans, I believe we may see a new OSHA requirement that mandates any facility containing an escalator be equipped with a mechanical engineer 24/7!
Tue, January 6, 2009 @ 7:20 PM
4. Ron Beasley wrote:: Now that's funny!
Wed, January 7, 2009 @ 7:59 AM
5. Danny wrote:: Stuck on an Escalator

What is it about my life (from my past experiences or normal thought processes) that causes me to quickly assume that I’m “stuck” or “trapped”?

What circumstances or challenges in my life (from my past experiences or my normal thought processes) tend to turn me into a victim in need of rescue?

In what ways might I be “stuck” and feel like a victim – when people outside of my circumstances might clearly see options open to me?

When am I most likely to suffer from tunnel vision and fail to see my options?

Are there people in my life (family, business, circle of friends) who are watching me and my life so closely that when I stop because I feel “stuck” THEY automatically feel stuck too? What might I do to break that co-dependent situation?

How often (and how quickly) do I move into a critical stance toward someone who I feel is responding inappropriately to their situation? How do I react when I see an employee or co-worker “acting dumb” (in my view) when I clearly see what they must or should do to change their situation? Do I criticize, lecture, blame, or make fun of them and their ignorant behavior as I walk away and leave them to struggle? How would I want someone to relate to me if they saw that I was “stuck on an escalator” and I was unaware of what to do next?

At the end of the video clip, when the man says, “Well, there’s nothing else left to do…” do you think he has something in mind to do (maybe something heroic or a last ditch effort), or was he just giving up? In reality, how many different options might be available to the man and woman on the escalator?
Wed, January 7, 2009 @ 8:00 AM
6. Ron Beasley wrote:: Now that's some good thinking. It would be typical of you to think and think deeply about applications. Thanks my friend. Good stuff, I don't care who you are.
Wed, January 7, 2009 @ 8:01 AM
7. Jim Mays wrote:: Dr. Ron:

This demonstrates the dependence we have developed on others. We are looking to government to bail us out or come to our rescue. We are waiting for someone else to come to our rescue when we have the power and the opportunity to drive our on desnity.

I don't even ride esculators. I am one of those guys who walk up the stairs on the esculator rather than riding.

Unbleivable how dependent on others we have become.

Have a blessed day!
Wed, January 7, 2009 @ 10:02 AM
8. Steve wrote:: Dr. Ron, I have just viewed the clip in your blog. Some of the parallels are obvious. People stuck in routine, can't see obvious solutions because they are so bogged down in the day to day routine. The same could be said of the spiritual. People tend to get stuck in their own religious (or
non-religious) views. It is difficult to see what may be obvious to others - move forward, take the next step - see the spiritual all around you - it is there you are just not seeing it, you are not opening yourself to the possibilities.
Wed, January 7, 2009 @ 11:00 AM

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