“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life,” Confucius is reported to have once said.

I don’t know that I’ll quite say that is the truth, but I have found the beauty of when my work is a realization of my calling and, being in the flow of my calling, time flies and the process itself is enjoyable rather than a source of stress or drain.

In this episode we explore how collaborative games mirror how success, growth and connection happen in real life.

Securing my first paying clients was a succession of two steps forward, one step back. It was a series of “almost clients” to get to actual clients.

Some of these “almost clients” did become clients, eventually. And that isn’t the point of this post. The point is that sometimes “almost” is as valuable as actually accomplishing. There are lessons in the “almost”. In work. In running a business. In life.

QUESTION FOR REFLECTION: What have you learned from the “ALMOSTs” in your life?

Perhaps it isn’t just time and distance that provides perspective, heals wounds and allows access to greater compassion.  Time and distance help.  They only help, though, if we use that time and distance to do our work of personal reflection, growth, and locating ourselves in our truth.  In that work is where we find a new perspective and where we heal.

QUESTION FOR REFLECTION:  WHERE IN YOUR LIFE IS THERE WORK TO DO TO GET COMPLETE?

What is family?

 

This year, we find ourselves reinventing how we celebrate holidays that many of us have traditionally celebrated with a larger group of people.

 

How do you choose?  Who is your chosen Family?

In this episode, we explore what it means to BELIEVE.... and that believing in a plan or course of action is not the same as believing in yourself.  

 

Question for Reflection:  Where is it time to BELIEVE... in yourself?

Speaking Our Truth is not without cost or consequence.  And yet, at some point, when we come to the end of our “set” period, there is a part of ourselves that compels us, catapults us forward.  We can no longer sit in incubation, because the cost of not honoring, speaking, and living our truth is even greater.

QUESTION FOR REFLECTION:  Where are you ready to Speak Your Truth?

I love this picture because it perfectly captures my journey to uncovering the "SHOULD"s that are not serving me in life, or in my new business.

 

Reflection Question:  Where are you “should”-ing in your life?

We cannot possibly continue to evolve to be a more perfect union without the voices of each and every person. 

Have your voice heard.  Vote.  Vote with power.  Vote with intention. 

QUESTION FOR REFLECTION:  What is your voting plan?

We all have the power within to create. We also collectively have the power to create and alter our world.  I was reminded of that when doing some leisure reading lately!