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Input Overwhelm!

Are you an input junky? Do you immerse yourself in books, webinars, quotes of the day, ideas from your friends? Do you find “the next great idea” to be “too much” sometimes?

If yes, I invite you into an input pause. (Okay, I’m laughing since this tidbit is one of those INPUTS!) Consider a 21-day fast from input. When you would normally read, watch or listen, STOP. In its place, breathe and let some ideas flow FROM you. Consider a bit of journaling around questions like:

What is in me now?
What wisdom is mine to share?
What do I know?

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Acknowledge it!

Today I’d like to invite you into a different way of noticing and celebrating “success” or forward movement. Often we only talk about what “gets done”, the visible, tangible manifestation that we can measure or check off a list. Unfortunately, we may miss the growth that happens along the way. It is the growth, the learning through the process, that aids us “next time”. NOTE: There is learning and growth … even in failure.

Here is the “acknowledgment twist” I’d like you to experiment with. The next time you complete something or want to celebrate, try speaking to the qualities (courage, persistence, patience, compassion…) that are present and which allowed you to “do the work”. Notice this isn’t about what you did but who you had to be in order to do it! The beauty here is that who you had to be is who you are and is available to you for each next thing!

Take some time today to notice the qualities in you that are showing up in your life. Regardless of the outcome of any experience, ask yourself:

How did I show up?
Did I exercise patience, compassion, calm?
Did I bring courage, vision, inner strength?

What is the gift that I am?

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Beauty in Interdependence

This morning, the sunrise expands across the eastern sky in an array of orange and pink. I stand in awe. For the first time in life, I realize – really realize – the interdependence required for the “sun” to be so beautiful. (Yes, I know I am slow!) The sun does its part, of course. But without particles in the atmosphere for the light to pass through and clouds to reflect the light, we would see only the sun.

I wonder:

What would be even more beautiful if “we” worked together?
What in your life needs a dose of interdependence?

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What I Cannot Do

Last time, I wrote:

Tell me something you DON’T know!

and invited you to drop the stories and dig deeper to new truths. True to form, the Universe reminded me of the idea “with a twist” in some readings:

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso

At a higher level, these messages are asking us to expand, look into what is possible, focus on the journey rather than the destination. I also hear an invitation to set fear aside and trust that “doing what I cannot do” is normal! Yes, I use that word lightly 🙂

What have you been avoiding because you “don’t know how”?
What doors will open once you’ve done it?

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Speak to something you don’t know

Yes, that’s right. Tell me something you DON’T know! In those thousands of thoughts we think each day, in the words we speak which so often relay “what has happened”, what are we learning? How are we expanding?

If we allow it, life always invites us deeper and wider. Our lives go nowhere when filled with nothing but “the stories we tell ourselves”. Growth happens in each “Ah ha!” awareness, each message from our emotional body that we didn’t predict, from the words we utter that seem to come from outside ourselves.

So, today, consider pausing before you speak, before you recite “the story”. Breathe into the moment and wonder:

What don’t I know?

Then, speak to that.