Thanks to Me for the Pic!

I’m done for now talking about lenses, except to see what happens if we cross reference the series on lenses with the prior (and still in progress) series on Alert Levels – like Red, Orange, Yellow, and now with our input, Green and Blue.  That pretty much leaves Purple if we’re sticking with your basic primary and secondary colors.

On April 27, I touched on Alert Level Purple as it applies to the excitement Allan and I are feeling as we are getting feedback on the business plan we’ve been stewarding forward for the past four and a half months. So here’s the report: Very Exciting!!

Even our most conservative, don’t-understand-a-thing-about-self-development-products-or-internet-marketing associates are giving us high marks. There are some challenges, of course, things to edit, but bottom line for me is that I’m learning so much right now about where this business is going, that my concept for it is getting more and more refined, which means we have some editing to do anyway.

High creative tension here, and I’m thinking that may be Alert Level Purple, where we let go of trying to understand the business plan development intellectually, and let it go into the same kind of collage process we’ve been discussing recently. We can see our plan readers as different lenses. We can form a vision that we will benefit completely from all of the different perspectives, stay open to the essential DNA of this business development process, and expect ease and grace to have us sliding into home before very long.

Picture from cyclingcleats.com

Yesterday we asked, “How do we avoid getting trapped in isms when we’re searching for our authentic self?”

The answer is,  we find or create ism-less lenses, many different neutral, clear tools, through which to view ourselves. These might include values assessments, personality indicators and other tools that help us focus in on what we secretly know about who we are as individuals. In BoldMoves Country, one explores forty different lenses that look at diverse and sometimes surprising dimensions of self.

After we have looked at ourselves through enough ism-less lenses, we gain clarity about what fits and what doesn’t. We become clearer and stronger.

Then, we can confidently derive whatever value may be appropriate to us from ism-laden lenses without getting trapped in shoulds and other dogma. We are able to slough off the distortions, and gain benefit by choosing only what is relevant to our individual uniqueness. This too, is a life work if done in a vacuum, but with tribes forming, and work already accomplished by others, new possibilities abound and the time table can be greatly shortened.

Next, we’ll explore how diverse lenses work to help a person re-member core self.

thanks to margotmystic.wordpress.com

I’m a little bit inconsistent this week with blog subjects. It’s because so much new insight is popping. Today, we will begin a mini-series exploring Lenses of Self.

Key to making Bold Moves is developing the skill of self-reflection. Navigating the process of becoming self-reflective is very tricky because of the distortions we get as our ego looks for answers in the outside world. We look to religion, or to philosophers, or to pop psychology, or to the neighborhood wise woman, and we get confused because what they give us is always wrapped in some form of dogma or ism. Many isms come in the form of “shoulds” that don’t necessarily align with our individuality.

We can slog through all of the distorted lenses, sifting and sorting for what rings true to us. This can take a lifetime. But there is a way to greatly speed up the process so that we can, more readily, dance that life in our own unique steps. So, how do we avoid getting trapped in isms?

The answer, tomorrow!