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You Were Born Ready!

You Were Born Ready

Do you believe it: you were born ready for anything? Imagine how much you have learned in your lifetime! With respect to navigating life on this planet Earth, you came into this world knowing very little. You could cry and breathe, sleep and nurse. Your body was a phenomenal machine able to process nourishment and reproduce at the cellular level. Beyond that, you learned how to talk and eat and behave. You learned how to express yourself and do math and play. You learned how to expand into more – and you learned how to shut yourself down. You learned how to believe in possibility and how to limit your options.

What if you believed you were born ready for anything — and — those things that you haven’t yet explored in this lifetime you are still ready for?

What would you attempt if you believed you could succeed?

(*) Check out more questions hiding behind the collage at https://www.songsforyourspirit.com/LifeCoachPromptsYouWereBornReady.php

 

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What are you aware of now?

Over the years, I have been a strong proponent of journaling, of taking time to evaluate the personal, inner landscape to notice and resolve conflict, emotional blocks, leftovers. When this long pause is needed – go for it! Today I’d like to suggest adding a practice of real-time awareness. How present are you in your day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience? If, for example, you often find yourself:

  • saying yes when you mean no
  • making commitments you later wish you hadn’t
  • bored or with mind wandering
  • desperately needing that journaling time to come back to yourself

maybe it’s time to “return to this moment” and “this one” and “this one” and live it fully.

What are you aware of now?

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What will you plant?

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

The alarm rang and you have arrived at your first cup of coffee facing the opportunity of being on this planet another day. You look at the calendar and the to-do list and see the required “what’s happening” moments that lie ahead.

Perhaps you often think in terms of “What do I want to complete or accomplish?” which seems to resemble the harvest you reap. If you chose to focus on seeds instead:

Where will you deposit kindness?
What words of compassion will you speak?
What soil will receive seeds of love?

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What is “too far”?

“Unless you go too far, you don’t know how far you can go.” William Friedkin

Yet that means I might overstep my bounds, make a fool of myself, fall off the virtual cliff. I might make a mistake. Then what?

Then, I clean up any mess, take stock of what worked and what didn’t, and evaluate the last step that took me over the edge. Was it:

  • A mistake?
  • Too much too soon?
  • Right step, wrong place?
  • Critical for my learning?

Then what? You got it! Move on. Take the next step.

Where have you gone too far?
Where have you not gone far enough?
What is too far?

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Baseball Part II: The Grand Slam

Last time, we talked about the home run and what it takes to achieve this feat. And it takes a lot! Today we’re going to talk about the Grand Slam – hitting a home run when the bases are loaded.

What’s the difference between a home run and a grand slam?

The real difference is this: it takes a team to create a grand slam from your home run. You cannot do it alone! All the preparation in the world, all the weightlifting, all the practice, all the strike outs, everything that leads to the perfect match between the pitch and your swing and results in a home run will never produce a grand slam without your teammates’ prior arrival on first, second and third.

What is your grand slam?
Who do you need on your team?
What leadership does your team need?
What now?