Bold Moves Country is your unique, internal terrain, your inner world of imagination, intuition and individual insight. In Bold Moves Country, your key opportunity is to develop an Optimal Operating State––a sustained experience of being where your choices are exceptionally clear and your moves, both powerfully satisfying and accomplished in a mood of ease and grace.
Regardless of your primary challenge in the present moment––finding a job, increasing sales, losing weight, meeting the perfect mate, ending a bad relationship, etc––that challenge is most powerfully met by working from the inside-out and by exercising self-wisdom and self-honoring. For most of us, this requires developing new skills that are not taught in schools or business trainings. There are many such skills. Let’s look at three.
New Skill 1: Identifying who you truly are without all of the overlays provided by family, friends, school, work, and the many other external authorities you are exposed to everyday. Self-ignorance and self-denial are actually promoted by most educational institutions because their job since the start of the industrial age, has been to norm people into a standardized workforce. Don’t color outside the lines. Unique individuals need not apply. Drilling down through your normed version of self requires courage and commitment, but the reward of an Optimal Operating State makes it worth doing.
New Skill 2. Reconnect with your unique, creative spark. In today’s world, the value of a normed workforce is fading and the value of individual uniqueness is increasing rapidly. We are told that our greatest personal asset in the emerging paradigm will be our creativity! We’re hearing new messages. Start your own business, become your own brand! But many of us don’t know how because of societal preconditioning. That is why creative companies like Google have started providing their own creativity-based educational programs, but you don’t have to work for Google to develop the skill of reconnecting with your unique, creative spark.
New Skill 3: Accessing your authentic needs and desires. When asked what they want, most people will answer quite quickly with whatever fleeting desire has been most recently programmed into them by external influences such as media ads, peer pressure, family rules and scripts, etc. They want a million dollars, a new car, a new job, a new spouse, a new body. If you don’t really know who you are, and if you’re out of touch with your creative spark, it’s likely that you too, are relying on external voices to tell you what you need and want. After exploring Bold Moves Country for a time, your answers change to: a deeper sense of fulfillment, a greater ability to communicate, a more connected relationship, a job that has me excited to get going every morning.
We are in a potent time of cultural and economic transition that requires us to develop fresh opportunities and to do things differently. Never before have the innate drive for full, individual self-expression and the need for new societal solutions been more closely aligned. And, never before has it been easier to understand how an optimal world can only be created by individuals functioning in an Optimal Operating State.
I find it quite revealing that my “optimal” state fluctuates leaving me in the moment perplexed. If I can stop and reflect the true essence of “optimal” reconfigures though sometimes not as quickly as I might like.