Exciting News!
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We’re testing a new, 9-question version of the BoldMoves Readiness Index. We’d love you to try it and let us know about your experience. On your score page, you’ll see a link for leaving your comments.
Here you go: BoldMoves Readiness Index And thanks again, in advance.
I could give a hundred reasons why the BoldMoves Readiness Index is important right now, but I’ll keep it to these few:
- There’s a mood of optimism that’s come with the new year.
- The longer we wait, the more it begins to melt away.
- Lots of people are sick and tired of feeling stuck.
- It’s hard to know how to get going again.
- Some are tempted to just take a leap of faith.
- Leaping without looking isn’t a great idea.
- A truly bold move doesn’t ask for a jump off a cliff.
- It asks that we listen in a new way.
- You may be ready!
Check it out: BoldMoves Readiness Index
Ouch!
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Typing this post with right hand only. My left is in bandages after a fall onto the desert trail this morning. So, this is gonna be a short one folks.
I am excited, though, about our up-coming beta test and eager to hear from everyone about our new version of the BoldMoves Readiness Index. Watch for an update on Sunday or Monday!
Hanging in the Dangle
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Okay, here I am in between business plan activities. Be patient, Shayla. Some pieces are in the hands of others and the very important review of the financials is scheduled for next Wednesday. So, taking a deep breath here, and trusting.
In the BoldMoves work, we encourage participants to do just that, but you know, it is sometimes easier said than done. This particular case, though is tied to my own growth process of working collaboratively with a team instead of just taking on huge chunks of activity myself, in which case my timing is my own. I’m very clear about the up side of having others’ input. For one thing, I’m seeing a vastly increased quality of product emerging for the plan. Oh, and here’s a good one, there is spaciousness that comes because I can’t just schedule myself into the wee hours to push through on tasks.
Ah, I like that. Instead of hanging in the dangle, I can shift to spaciousness as a definition of this time between. And honestly, its not that I don’t have plenty to keep me busy if I want to fill that spaciousness up. I’m going to the San Francisco Book Conference next week and will take along a piece about our BoldMoves book. That will be fun. So, excuse me, I’m going to get on writing that right now––but in a spacious hanging-in-the-dangle kind of way.
How Fun!
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Well, today’s meeting was everything I hoped it would be! There’s a draft of the business plan coming back to me sometime before midnight, and great energy for moving forward to get it ready for presentation to others.
Allan and I will crunch numbers again soon to complete that piece. And to top it all off, we have a plan for testing our marketing funnel – something I’ll be sharing here in the next few days, so stay tuned.
I knew when I took on responsibility for getting the plan together that it would be a big job, but I certainly didn’t think it would take so long. Just a lot of ducks to row up – ducks roaming like cats!
We’re on our way, though. How fun!
Pea Soup
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Honestly, my head feels like pea soup just now, a side effect of having let the Critters get me up in the night. Embarrassing, really, as I pride myself on being able to silence them, but the combination of deep change in my life and too many carbs in my dinner created a situation that even the GrooveTool couldn’t remedy. At least not for a few hours.
The good news is that I didn’t fall completely down the rabbit hole. Picture me just at the entrance, pressing with all fours against the sides to keep myself from plummeting belly down into the abyss. Well, you know that place, right? Everyone knows that place.
So while my operating state isn’t optimal, I’m staying away from business planning, but I look forward to tomorrow morning when I meet with Tim and Roger regarding next steps. I cannot adequately say how wonderful it feels to have the support of two brilliant guys. Despite my head feeling like pea soup, life is good – actually, life is great!!
Ease and Grace
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It’s Sunday morning and though I am writing this post, I am not working today and that is a real pleasure. To have an entire Sunday away from business plan writing and other Pond Productions tasks is a welcomed treat. For many years, I’ve enjoyed working at least a few hours on Sundays to give my regular work week more space and consequently, more ease and grace.
Ease and grace in your work week? You prioritize that? Yes. I do.
As a personal development professional, ease and grace are the bedrock of my ability to serve both my coaching clients, and our Jump To Action program participants. And it is so rewarding when our clients begin experiencing how they too can make ease and grace foundational to their experience of work, which of course, transforms the whole notion of work into play. Play to win with ease and grace. That’s the P in J-U-M-P.
Tomorrow, (today for many blog readers) I jump back into the business plan which is coming right along now. Soon, I will begin the process of self-management that hopefully will have me taking the plan out into the world in a mood of play to win. Gulp!!
Ease and grace. Ease and grace, Shayla.
Gentle Passage
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So many ideas are flowing through my mind today.
I love it when this happens.
It’s like the sky opens up and it rains creativity.
Blessed be.
Horrors!
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I missed a day of blogging!!!
Oh, you bad, bad person. You so blew it. . . you promised to blog every single day. . . you promised!!! And now you’ve missed a day. You forgot, you dim wit! How could you.
No gold star for you today. No warm feeling of having fulfilled on your commitments. No welcomed comments from your readers. No deep sense of accomplishment. And what about that one special reader who told you just yesterday that your daily blogs were helping him in some strange way to navigate profound change in his life? Now you’ve let him down. Bad, bad, bad! Bad person.
Ya, ya, ya . . . I know you, you pesky Critter. I hear you, but I’m not letting you guilt trip me. No! I’m going to Groove you right out of here.
Critter Reality says: I have messed up totally and let everyone down. I feel guilty and ashamed.
My Whisperer Visions is: It’s okay that I missed one day of blogging. I always keep my commitments to the best of my ability, I’m a responsible, caring, good person.
And oh, now I get to share this real life example of the GrooveTool with my readers. Life is good!
Eyeball to Eyeball
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Bleary eyes here. I’ve spent almost the entire day creating a chart that shows the user-experience flow of our Jump To Action program, well the front end of it anyway, and I can hardly see from staring at my computer screen.
So stop already!! Your blog fans (all six) will forgive you if you move away from virtual land long enough to get your sight back. Well yah!
Just wanting to stay with my commitment to blog everyday – without fail. Oh such a good girl!
Jumping for Joy!
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So, the flow chart of our Jump To Action Success Series came together today and I’m feeling just great about it. What? Actually map out the full journey through BoldMoves Country so that others can see what it is? What a novel idea. Duh!!
The fact that I needed prompting to think about doing this points out two things. One, highly introverted creators like me hide a lot from the world just because they forget to show and tell. And two, I’ve been bouncing off trees so long I forgot there even was a forest!
Anyway, I am feeling my oats even after a long day and once again so grateful for timely promptings from the universe as I steward our Pond Productions business plan forward. Jumping for joy here!
