This is my basic plan for how I try to live my life + run my business:
1) Plug into what matters (+ stay plugged in).
2) Try things (+ keep trying things) from that plugged-in space.
3) Commit to not giving up.
This plan helps me approach my goals, conundrums, and problems as creative challenges + dynamic adventures (rather than all-or-nothing litmus tests of worthiness), which boosts my morale + keeps me in the game.
It’s also been super helpful on the weird journey of trying to build an online business.
Because it’s easy to get attached to the specifics, like a particular class, event, or program I’m offering, or even to how well (whatever that means) a facebook post or email message is received.
But of course, a lot fails, flops, and fizzles along the way -- often in ways I can’t really control or predict. And that’s just part of it.
And this is what I can control: my devotion to the deeper thing, to what I’m doing + why (in the case of business: helping people go deep, live big lives, and plug into the magic, which I can do in all sorts of ways) - and my commitment to continuing to create from that space + build bridges into that vision.
Eventually, some of it starts to land + get traction + succeed. But that’s not even the best part.
The best part is my deeper connection to what matters most + deeper reservoir of grit + resilience I’ve built along the way.
And this is also how I'm trying to live now, especially in the midst of collective overwhelm + grief + discombobulation:
- Staying plugged into who + how I want to be in this time.
- Staying connected to what matters most (love + groundedness + communion + creativity -- my people + my vocation + my magic)
- Exploring ways to bring that to life, understanding that not all of it will succeed in getting me there. Some of my tries will fail. Some of my efforts will feel wasted. But in any given moment, I can remember my Why + return to my deep reasons. And I can keep creating + exploring + trying from that space.
And that’s exactly what I intend to do. And I hope you join me. Because the world needs all of us (with whatever magic we can muster) right now.
Sending love + springtime blessings.