A couple of years ago I worked with Rachel to support her through her transition out of a traditional physiotherapy role to into savvy businesswoman of Kinematics Health + Performance which she co-owns with her husband Pep.
It’s been a joy to watch this woman take bold leaps, bring her creativity to the health sector, as well as bravely leading their team (and the many things you learn on the job!). I can’t wait for you to read her story.
Rosie and I first connected when I was working with lululemon and she owned her previous business Rise Yoga.
Now a busy mother of two young boys, Rosie has set her sites on carving out her niche in the activewear world.
With a background as both a yoga teacher and physiotherapist, Rosie sees this new venture as so much more than the clothing. Her desire is to use the brand as a way of educating women around movement pre and post pregnancy, as well as support women’s changing bodies.
She’s bold and brave and today I wanted to share her story, as it reveals that in any phase of life – anything is possible and you might just get your best idea yet!
Through her a multi-faceted approach, Bec is truly committed to those she works with, delivering a beautiful product that is a culmination of her experience, purpose, passion and grit.
But as you’ll find out, she lay down the foundations in the corporate space with some of Australia’s most well-known brands – before leaping out on her own.
Despite only connecting face to face a couple of times, I regard Bec as a true friend. She’s one of those women that reminds you that we’re all in this entrepreneurial game together.
By definition “The Switch” series is about: everyday women making radical changes in their life towards purpose driven work, like the other women that have come before her in this series, Bec shows that purpose driven work evolves over time. It’s not always an instant switch.
I truly admire this woman’s courage to work step by step by step at something she wholeheartedly wants and believes in.
“Every seed has a gestation or incubation period. Ideas are spiritual seeds and will move into form or physical results. Your goals will manifest then the time is right. Know they will” – The Law of Rhythm, from the 14 Universal Laws of Nature
In part one of this four part series, we explored the energy of winter and how it relates to completing a goal.
Winter is chance to go within, to clarify a goal that feels good because it feels like you. You can revisit that post HERE if you want to go back to the beginning.
Spring – we emerge from the dark into the light.
Step two in the dream activation process.
This step looks like momentum, creating small challenges for yourself, small actions to evolve the idea.
It is the point at which the idea starts to become a reality. We move towards it, rather than absorbing ourselves in the research and the planning phase.
How many times have you heard yourself say “I just need to find out a few more details about that course” or “I’ve got so many ideas I don’t know which way to go” or “I’ll wait till next year…”
Waiting, research and planning are comfortable.
We can do it from the comfort of the couch. That safe space to dream. But we too often get stuck in this phase.
As Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in her book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear –
What truly keeps the dream alive, is the ability to know when it’s time to move onto the next phase and carry the momentum through.
Some would call this being in flow. And this is the beauty using the energy of cycles and seasons to follow through with our goals.
+ Connect – who do I need additional support from? where can I get that support? who do I know that could help me with this goal? Outreach, set up meetings, enrol in that course and if you’re game enough get an accountability buddy. We are looking for feedback here on our idea or project, perhaps even someone to collaborate with.
+ Plan – you know what the goal is, how you want the process to feel and what you want to achieve now you feel ready to put it into a plan. In this step, we’ll get really clear on what time you need in your schedule and how to make that time. We work out all the small steps. We put them in the calendar.
+ Seek resources – what do I know about this goal, challenge or project? and like-wise what don’t I know? You might find some overlap with this step and the connection piece. Once you’re clear, reach out to those who could know the answer.
The trick here for us is to not get too stuck on the “behind the scenes” of the goal and planning, which is why we included the connection piece.
I can’t wait to share with you the next phase of the process – express, a phase that has the energy of my favourite season – Summer.
As you can see, The Dream Activator truly is THE best launch pad for your goals in 2019.
This four-part, self-guided course will have you start taking action on your dream in just 28 days. To find out more click the button below.
This is your opportunity to make things you love, do things you love, with ease.
What does goal setting have to do with seasons, and winter for that matter?
First, I want you to cast your mind’s eye back to winter.
Depending on your hemisphere – right now, this feeling may be very familiar, or it may feel distant.
The frozen air, dark over light, coolness, the warm feeling of climbing into bed at night for rest, the feeling of turning inwards. It’s slow, perhaps even still and often a reflective time.
You may not realise it, but the process of taking an idea, something that might be a seed and bringing it into reality, is the exact process that we have in seasons, with the moon and as women with our menstrual cycle.
As you scroll, you might be thinking “but I’m not very familiar with the moon cycles, seasonal living, and even this idea of tracking my monthly cycle” and that’s completely okay!
For this process, we don’t need to be doing any of those things in detail – however, if your curious to know more I will provide some additional resources within the program.
This process has been designed to innovate goal setting for women (and men).
And introduce you to some concepts that will help you to bring more flow, more ease to your ambitions.
It’s about learning how to take action, make goals happen in line with our natural energy cycles. This process might be the permission you need to be “off” occasionally instead of “on”. To move, work and create with the “flow”.
When you are using The Dream Activator tool, step one is akin to the energy of winter and we’ll refer to it as Ignite or the period of the inner creative.
So how does this season fit into the process of dream activation or setting a goal? Aren’t goals about deciding then lot’s of doing?
Yes that assumption is somewhat correct – because that’s the way you’ve always known how to set goals. The ready.set.go approach. And for some of us, this works most of the time.
I say most of the time, because typically what happens is a few weeks or months after we begin, our energy fluctuates, our emotions get the better of us or life happens and we lose consistency.
What makes this process radically different?
When your goals are chosen from a place that is more deeply connected with you, when things get hard, we have a chance to pause and reconnect with why it’s important to us.
This is why phase one, is all about you.
By capturing the energy of Winter, a time when we naturally slow down – we can become more intimate with our dreams.
We decide what it is we want to create and we declare it.
Step one is…
A blank page, new beginnings, unlimited possibility, planting seeds, intention, brainstorm
In this step, we allow ourselves the space to explore ideas without limitation.
BUT if do we feel any sense of limitation, I promise to give you tools to learn why. Even in myself, I’ve noticed my emotion can be all over the place when I allow myself space to freely dream. One minute excited, heart racing next minute doubt.
It is important that we create a safe environment to allow this to unfold.
From here we learn to create goals that feel more connected to who we truly are, before we race out and start striving towards them. This is a period of nurturing the goal, of getting clear on all the possibilities, how it could look and feel.
At the end of Step One, you’ll have an opportunity to declare your goal by sharing it in our Facebook group for fellow dream activators. This is a vital part of turning your dream into a reality.
And that is what you’ll expect in step one.
The beauty of the Dream Activator process is that when we finish we get to repeat the cycle. Likewise, if we go off track or abandon the goal, we can come back to step one, reset our intention and start again.
Maybe the way you have set goals has worked until now, but doesn’t feel entirely like you anymore. If you’re ready to do things differently, then you might like to try something new.
As you can see, The Dream Activator truly is THE best launch pad for your goals in 2019.
This four-part, self-guided course will have you start taking action on your dream in just 28 days. To find out more click the button below.
This is your opportunity to make things you love, do things you love, with ease.
