Okay, so our world has slowed down in recent months and it seems we’re all looking around hoping someone will get things moving again. We search the news and the net for any signs that it might be safe to get motivated and take new action, but remain unconvinced as our trusted indicators surge and then sag on a daily basis. So what to do?
Every challenge has its attendant lesson and the big take away from the current doldrums is that the energy needed to get things rolling isn’t out there somewhere. It lives within each and every one of us.
Imagine for a moment that each woman who belongs to any women’s group is a single cell in a body that has been lying on the couch watching the world slug along. Then imagine that just one cell in that body––one woman in that organization–– decides to turn her attention inward instead of outward. Suppose that one woman sees within herself, the heat of a desire cooling to just an ember from neglect, and that just because it is noticed once again, that desire receives enough energy to flare up into a genuine flame.
Imagine that the heat of that cellular flame is felt by the cells next door, signaling them to also look inside for what is waiting, wanting to manifest. It’s easy to imagine from there, that before long, that whole body would be warming to action, stretching into new possibilities, rising from the couch to create traction in a fresh and amazing dance.
Sisters, we are the traction we’ve been waiting for. The remedies for what ails us are our own courage, conviction and creativity. If we look inside and give ourselves a fraction of the belief we have so willingly given others, we’ll get this world going again, against all odds.
This article was adapted from one I write for ForbesWoman earlier this week.
For me your words have universal application regardless of sex as in a holistic perspective there is no separation between female and male as connected we all are.
Respectfully,