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Jack of all trades …

… master of none. This is what has been in my awareness this week. All of my life I have participated in a variety of activities and learning experiences and had people around me who challenged me in so many different ways. I’ve been able to juggle many things well – or well enough. What I’ve offered the world around me in support, leadership, creativity, music, friendship … has been a gift over and over.

And, I haven’t become a master at anything. I realize that, when I’ve tried to focus enough to move in that direction, I get bored – or distracted by all the other balls I like to juggle!

Why tell you this?

Continue reading “Jack of all trades …”

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The Inquiry

Do you ever ask yourself  open-ended questions which have no “right” answer but tend to open you to magical discovery? Being with such an inquiry is the act of holding it in the background of our mind and heart while we move through our days and activities. An inquiry is often not tied to anything in particular yet it is broad enough to apply to most anything.

Experiment today with “the inquiry”. Select one of these or perhaps make up your own!

What am I tolerating?
What is it to be powerful?
What would letting go “just a little bit” feel like?
Am I being nice or am I being real?

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Intrude on Yourself!

There is a skill in coaching called “intruding” or interrupting the client. It has a couple key uses, one of which is yet another way of being with “stories” :

  1. When a client is “telling a story” and taking it “way too far” – caught up in details and not learning from their personal reaction to or engagement in the situation – the coach may intrude and perhaps ask for “just the facts” or “bottom line” or “what’s they REAL issue?” or “what aren’t you saying?”
  2. When the coach has an intuition, an “Aha!” and it fits … NOW … in order to most benefit the client, the coach may interrupt and ask “I just had an intuition … may I share?”

The purpose here is to help the client go beyond the story, go deeper, get outside the box, vision, shift gears – learn. Continue reading “Intrude on Yourself!”

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Inner Integrity … continued

In the previous post, we explored how attitude can keep us in integrity with ourselves while participating in an activity that initially we wanted no part of:

Inner Integrity

Today, I’d like to explore inner integrity from a different angle. Being in integrity while meeting others’ needs is vital – though not always easy. And — we can do that for awhile, setting aside the voice within which says: “Please don’t keep that commitment! Please stop and rest. You don’t have the energy!” Yet, how long can we postpone or deny the very personal needs that we have? How long can we make mental adjustments in order to be in integrity while serving the world and be “okay”?

How do we know when it’s time stop,
listen to our inner callings
and be in integrity with our own needs?

Why are we so reluctant to honor them? Continue reading “Inner Integrity … continued”

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What will you plant?

Springtime – a time for planting seeds in anticipation of the fall harvest. Perhaps an overused metaphor, but a good one and I’d like to invite you into it with me. What follows can be applied to any dream or goal, intention or vision. For the sake of this moment, call to mind one such vision you hold for the life ahead of you. As you can, imagine it clearly, complete, you – embodying your vision.

Feels good, yes? What? Are your thoughts suggesting it’s impossible – or – too far off to begin? Set them aside. Now is the time to begin.

The fall harvest of your dream requires many baby steps. Before overwhelm sets in, recall also that the seeds which you plant spend a lot of time by themselves, growing, expanding, doing what plants do. Continue reading “What will you plant?”