Sneaky Critter!
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Just when I thought I had my Inner Critter under control, it actually took over my dream world this morning, painting bleakness all over everything I’ve put my hands on recently. Fear and doubt, fear and doubt, fear and doubt. Yuck!
I was relieved to wake up, of course, and discover that the Critter wasn’t real. Then, I realized that it was real to the extent that I didn’t remember in the dream to Groove that Critter out of there. Now that would be true lucid dreaming right, remembering to use the GrooveTool for a Critter attach in my dreams. Something to aspire to.
I’ll let you know when I get that one down. In the meantime, I’m staying vigilant in my waking hours and I actually noticed a little Critter bleed into my day today. Sneaky Critter. I’m not going to let you dampen my enthusiasm for the many beautiful opportunities and possibilities life is bringing these days.
We’re real close on the business plan!
Broad Brush – Sharp Pencil
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How does an artist put together financial numbers for a business plan? With a broad brush.
And that, folks is why I am incredibly grateful right now for my partner Allan who can sharpen a pencil and get down to the finer details. It’s getting exciting though, as we get down to these last few pages.
Noticing, too though, that this might be a window for Inner Critters to come in and try to take one or both of us out with all kinds of justifications why the plan will never fly – not with real investors.
Bah humbug, I say. Why not? So come on Critters, do you best. We’re ready for you this time. We’ve got a new Groove going, with a broad brush and a sharp pencil.
Ease and Grace, Ease and Grace
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We received a comment on one of our blogs recently, an expression of anger complete with expletives. Neither Allan nor I knew quite how to respond, so we just didn’t, but now that I’ve had time to think about it, I do want to say that I can really understand how someone who is completely caught in Critterville might be very upset by the notion we propose, that we actually can, if we want, choose a life of ease and grace.
The person commenting was angry because he had chosen a life where the pressures felt too great to bear, where he was ordered about endlessly and felt completely controlled by the world around him. So the question here is, “Why choose that kind of life?” And one answer is, “Because there doesn’t seem to be any choice.”
But there is always choice, always. It only feels like there isn’t because we believe that is true, and we believe it because we haven’t learned how to see the world from the perspective of possibilities, only from that of doing what we should, or as we’re told.
I vote for ease and grace in life, and that can be realized in various ways. One can learn to bring possibility thinking and thus the possibility of ease and grace, into any endeavor, any environment. any moment. That is the choosing how we react way. It’s an inside kind of choosing. Another way is to choose for ourselves, the world we wish to inhabit. Go find the job where the boss isn’t overbearing. Turn off the bad news, just turn it off. Paint the room pink if blue gets you down. That is the change what you choose way of opting for ease and grace, the outside kind of choosing.
I choose to finish the business plan – tomorrow, I think. Ease and grace, ease and grace!
I Think I Can, I Think I Can . . .
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That’s been my mantra for the past three months as I’ve convinced myself to keep writing our business plan even though there were many days when I didn’t have a clue as to what to do next, huffing and puffing my way up the long slow hill. I’m not quite to “I Knew I Could, I Knew I Could,” but by golly, I’m close and I’m just dancing with joy to see once again how the creative process works.
In the beginning, nothing but an intention and ten dozen concepts. Next, exploring those concepts for the ones that may be pertinent. Trying not to close down my options out of a need for completion. Then, massaging the many options into some kind of form and sense. Knowing that what I have isn’t really what I want. Stopping, frowning, shaking the head and wondering how they will every integrate. Then suddenly, just when all seems impossible, breakthrough. Everything falls into place in ways that far exceed the original intention. WaaHoo Choo Choo!
On a Roll
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Good progress today on integrating into the business plan document, the insights Allan and I have had over the past week about why this BoldMoves work is so important now. Excited, here, to be getting the story straight after all of these weeks.
I’m amazed at how complex ideas sort themselves out if there’s a clear intention that they will. More writing tomorrow. I’m on a roll!
And Now, The Dawn!
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Thank heavens for The GrooveTool ( see yesterday’s blog). I experienced a serious Inner Critter take out yesterday, but thanks to this blogging process, I remembered to use that very powerful tool. And viola! Today, I have moved forward at the speed of light. Everything is popping up roses of every kind.
In BoldMoves Country, we see again and again with our clients and program participants how the darkest hour ––that time when the Critters really have ya’–– can actually be seen as an indication of a potentially huge breakthrough just around the corner.
When I witness the pervasive fear and doubt that has people at dead stop right now, I can almost get excited. Whatever could be coming as we find, each of us, our own way through that dark night and into a new dawn?
What Business Plan?
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Barely Mover
I’m trying to convince myself that everyone has days like today when the task at hand seems like a Herculean effort, but I’m not buying it. Instead, I’m feeling a little guilty that I don’t have the level of energy and quickness of mind to shape shift all of the pieces we now have into a brilliant single business plan document. Use the GrooveTool, Shayla. Okay!
Critter Reality says: I have absolutely no interest in writing on the business plan right now.
My Whisperer Visions is: I am excited and energized because the plan is complete!
Just Love It
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Makes me smile when I get important stuff done over the weekend, so here I am, beamy Shayla. Two big pieces under my belt.
A two page defining article about why the Bold Moves approach to self-mastery is a real contribution to our world, especially to our country which seems really stuck right now.
And an outline of budget considerations for Phase I of the business plan. Finally, we’re getting down to those darned numbers. I like what I see.
Staying optimal these days, helped by daily treks in the wet green Sonoran Desert. Yes!
No Hot Air!
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I realized something important this week in working with business planning. I was a bit stuck and blue for a while because I wasn’t plugged in to who I really want to become next, and of course, Bold Moves are not made until there is internal alignment.
For seven years, I’ve been hands on developing content and web presence for the Bold Moves work, and though I’ve known I wanted to shift gears, I hadn’t gotten to an impassioned vision of what the new gear was to be.
This week, I got it. Well, actually it started with watching Michael Jackson in This Is It two weeks ago in San Francisco. I was so inspired by who he was as a producer. It was like he had an orchestra of people, props, scenes and sounds and when he raised his wand, everything came together. That’s how I want to work!
At first I thought about the musician part of me and regressed a bit to my days of music production. But on Tuesday, I received an email about a fabulous project being funded and the scope of it really inspired me. It was then that I realized that what I really want is to produce this whole Bold Moves thing on a much bigger level.
Oh, don’t worry, I’m not wafting away on hot air! In fact I feel strangely grounded even though the vision has expanded. I can actually see the steps in a new way, the points of leverage and my ability to work them. How exciting – and thanks for being my witness!
Aah, Ease and Grace
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Who woulda thunk it?
To get to ease and grace we just needed to think bigger, imagine more boldly, and be fully available to even more outrageous outcomes – movie deals, global reach and dream team creative partners. We needed to get out of the box of business plan writing and blow our vision out to the cosmos. Now, I’m juiced and in flow! How about you Allan?
We’ve always carried these visions in our head, just haven’t put them on the front burner until now and interesting that as we do, they are refreshing everything; a new heroine for the Bold Moves book, new interest from the publishing world, a new market target for Bold Moves, new branding with new colors, and new excitement all around––even a new rendering of Jump the frog is on its way.
Just when Inner Critters would have us turning down the heat, we’re operating on high, cooking up new stuff. And boy what fun!
