Emerging Self…Listen!

Keep moving towards your highest contribution.

This requires a confounding measure of patience, which anyone can tell you, is not my strong suit. I want more now! While grateful for this life that I have, I often wish for more hours in a day, or better yet, a parallel existence, in which I am also dancer and have a farmhouse.

But listening to Kyle Cease and Lewis Howes today, a great point was made, and one that I can settle into: If you are always “On The Way” somewhere, you are coming from a place of “lack” and what you are doing this moment isn’t as important as some perceived awesome thing just around the corner. What a waste of THIS moment! So I sit here, envisioning how to both enjoy this moment, sitting at my trusty and awesome kitchen table, having had a wonderful day with my son (who still likes to hang out with me), while envisioning what my greatest contribution can be, and how to take my next steps.

I have some ideas.

I’ve been talking myself into a certain kind of box for a while, and it is like a suit jacket to me – I can’t stand to be in it. I am and always will be a jeans and barefoot kind of gal. I do clean up nicely, but prefer this other state, and am at my most content here. Thank goodness my friend Danny once reminded me that I am unconventional. Funny how one comment can impact a life.  After these last several years of inner and outer exploration, I am understanding that I am not box-able – and that the mix of creativity, combined with an analytical mind and a love for self-development, culture, leadership and the arts has made me exceptionally qualified to help others find their own unique DNA, one in which they can find clarity in what their highest contribution to our world can be.

Lofty, I know, but most days, I am an optimist. I have no patience for glass-half-empty.

Kyle Cease talks about a moment in his comedy career when he decides not to do the comedy club circuit anymore, and pursue something that has not yet been done – combine comedy with the transformation. His body says “It’s never been done!” And his mind says, you know, that’s never been done…

He decides to listen to the body, the optimism, and immediately books events that are far more gratifying and lucrative than his comedy club circuit would have been, and would never have been able to see in advance how his trust in that voice would open these new doors.

Trust your instincts. Free fall. Have faith in your unique magic. Doors will open.

If you have spent time getting to know yourself, and you are beginning to believe that your own very special magical concoction of personality, history, experience, and hustle can benefit others, you may just find the doors open to opportunities beyond what you could have ever dreamed.

So, what is trying to emerge from you? Listen. We need you.

 

Check out:

Lewis Howes School of Greatness Episode:

https://lewishowes.com/podcast/r-kyle-cease/