About four years ago, at a personal development seminar, I stood up in front of a room of a hundred people (absolutely sweating) and declared that I wanted to be fearless.
At the time I felt like some kind of superhero, to be without fear was the dream.
Within the time of making my declaration, I’d made some pretty major changes in my life and I thought leaping in head first and showing fear who’s boss, would cure me of it’s grip.
Sadly not.
In fact I never became “fearless”.
Some of you might know of Albert Einstein.
There are some similarities between me and old Albert. Like me, he was a multi-passionate guy. You too?
Perhaps you didn’t know this because Einstein was most notable for his groundbreaking scientific theory. This is what we know well, but it’s not the full story.
I’m highly intrigued by what makes the ‘genius’ tick. It often has me reading about people waaay outside my field of work. (Side note: this is usually when the best discoveries happen). So when I started reading about the man with the crazy white hair, I discovered a whole other side to him I never knew.
The guy was extremely multi-passionate.
Five years ago, I made some pretty significant changes to my life.
I created a new pathway that vaguely had an endpoint, but really all I knew was the next 6-12 months of milestones. Bigger dreams were forming day by day they looked nothing like the dreams I’d previously dreamed. They were better and for the first time they felt more like the real me.
I had closed the door (most certainly forever) on my professional career as a practising Architect.
Possibly one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, but I so badly wanted to know what was on the other side. What else was possible for this beautiful, wild, life?
The New Year is a beautiful thing.
Our conversations are ablaze with ideas on improving/upgrading/changing/developing/forming/shifting…
Gears…Speed…Habits…Goals….Body…Diet…Health…Relationship…Career…Home…Country
This is my year we say.
I’m ready, I’ve got this…
The natural tendency of the creative and intelligent women (that is you by the way), is to look forward, evolve, grow, be better year after year.
Our “stop doing list” is an essential element of this process (you can learn what this is here).
But what if we chose easy? the simple route?
Easy feels good doesn’t it?
Easy is actually OK believe it or not.
One easy option, take stock of what worked, what brought you joy – and do more of that.
Ask yourself – when did I choose powerfully? when did I say “hell yes” to that thing…and it paid off (or is expected to very soon…).
It occurred to me recently, that there is one (or may be two) steps before we get to the actual goal setting part.
I’m sure you’ve heard it before – the ol’ chicken before the egg.
Perhaps you have an idea of what you want to achieve already – perfect! But let’s keep these as ideas, dreams and visions for now.
Don’t stop partaking in the flow of idea generation, it’s a beautiful place to be.
…Alas, I digress, before you go anywhere near a pen and paper and start cementing your goals, I want you to ask yourself one very important question:
