Archive for Bold Move Making
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!
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
Just the Facts Ma’am
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Sergeant Friday would be a worthy ally to me as I take on my next task for the business plan, creating a simple flow chart of the primary components of our Jump To Action training series––how we take people through BoldMoves Country.
I was always fascinated by Friday’s ability to stick to the basics. What color? What texture? What size? How did it smell? Taste? My mind just doesn’t want to work that way without coaxing.
Ask me to describe an ice cream cone, and I’ll effuse about the way it reminds of pleasurable childhood moments, or the frustration it creates in a three year old who can’t stay ahead of the drips. I’ll describe how the scoop glides through the stuff in its carton, curling it into a surprising ball and then balancing atop the cone like a golf ball on a tee. Never mind that it is cold, pink, strawberry in flavor and smell, round and smooth at the top, and coned and crisp at the bottom.
So, once again, I am a bit out of my element, but this is a challenge I can relish because it will help others to understand what we’re doing. At the same time, I’m so glad that I know about my penchant for abstraction because when the Inner Critters try to bother me, I will know exactly how to stave them off. That’s one of the primary take aways from BoldMoves Country, knowing who I am well enough to see those pesky Critters coming.
Stretching, stretching – just stick to the facts, Shayla.
Optimum Yes!
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For the first time in several weeks of business plan writing, I am happy to report that this morning I have once again restored my Optimal Operating State.
There is a part of me that is embarrassed to have been so bi-polar recently: rainbow-rain-rainbow-storm-rainbow-hurricane. I have this lingering self-judgment saying that as a BoldMoves author and facilitator, I should certainly be able to maintain my own flow of ease and grace.
Baloney Critter! Don’t should on me.
I’ve been performing way outside of my core competencies, truly groping along at times. The great news is that the process helped me recommit to those endeavors that build naturally on my authentic strengths. That’s where my greatest gifts are given, and it just makes life so delightful, a place where rainbow colors and dark clouds simply become a beautiful backdrop to a state of serenity. No boat rocking.
Planning Through The Mists
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I love the process of thinking and planning around big vision. So despite the many Inner Critter attacks I’ve experienced in recent weeks, I have had great fun writing the Pond Productions next phase business plan. And I’m not done yet.
But today I meet with Allan to plan for the short term. How will we keep our day to day operations optimized in the midst of fundamental change? A very worthy question.
You see, this day marks the end of an era for our business partnership. It is the last day Allan and I will meet in person for a while. The last day we will convene in what has been our virtual office for the past seven years, his beautiful home.
The movers arrive tomorrow and everything will change as Allan moves east and our business becomes bi-coastal. Everything will change except sun, moon, stars, rain––and of course, the extraordinary foundation we have built, possibility thinking, and outrageous good will.
On To The Second Draft
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Look out! I’ve finally re-inspired myself (writing the Community Involvement and Social Responsibility section of our business plan) and I’m ready to take on a second draft of everything I’ve written so far.
I am feeling so proud of Allan and me, of our ethics in business, our commitment to give exceptional value, and the deep contribution our Jump To Action Success Series makes to our participants and to society as a whole.
It always amazes me how when I discipline myself to get through the parts of any project that I’m resistant to, a wonderful rainbow of possibility always opens up. Thank you Noah, it’s glowing now, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-violet!
Does that mean no more grieving, no more self-doubt, no more Critters raising a ruckus? Nope. It means that each of those things has a color of its own and all together, they remind me: No rain, no rainbows!
Yee Haw!
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I’m back in the saddle again!
Turns out that writing the Management section of the business plan was a breakthrough activity. Oh, and of course my session with coach Sheryl yesterday who gave the little kid in me permission to play instead of work at it.
I teach this stuff! How easily our insight gets fogged over by Critter noise.
Anyway, my creative juices are flowing and wowie, I’m having a great time today thinking about the new branding that will appeal to the primary target market for our Jump To Action Success Series, boomers and gen Xers, leading with women!
Hmmm. An interesting shift from the corporate guy market we originally targeted. I can just see Allan now, glowing as he speaks to great halls filled with beautiful, powerful women! They will just love him. That’s a slam dunk. And of course, sprinkled in will be those amazing guys who are ready for a BoldMoves ride.
Don’t Bother Me, I’m Digging
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Yesterday, my Inner Critters laid off me for a while and I began to feel like I was through the worst of their negativity regarding this business plan writing. I read through what I’d written, and was pleased with the draft so far.
But, truth is, I have a deep dark history around requesting compensation for my skills and talents. I was persecuted as a child with the words, The women in our family don’t work for money, which was always delivered with a truckload of shame. Gee, thanks Mom!
And though for decades, I’ve dug myself out of the limiting beliefs that came with that message, those beliefs are coming up for one more attempt to take me out! That’s what we can expect when we go for a BoldMove––the bigger the move, the greater the probability of a deep dive into old patterns. So, I’m digging again, to rid myself of them once and for all.
Okay, even as I say that, I’m hearing just the tiniest Whisperer voice say, You can do it Shayla! Think I’ll finish Management and Organization.
Bold Blubbering and More
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Yes, it’s true. I blubbered. I blubbered yesterday all over Skype. How humbling! The changes and other challenges in my world right now are touching in deeply to the little kid part of me who, it seems, is a blubberer on occasion––on Skype. Yipe!
How does this relate to writing a business plan? Well, today’s subject is Management and Organization which means I need to make our team members (me included) appear stellar, strong and credible. And I blubbered yesterday on Skype.
No worry. Because I also received some great support yesterday, from Allan, and from Tim, Liz and Paul who responded to my blog. Thanks so very much to all. You made my day!
So, moving boldly forward into the joy of writing about the amazing people who have worked together to bring the Bold Moves work this far over the past six years, Allan, Roger, Diane, and let’s not forget Janis and Paul. Oh, and of course, the blubberer – who did get a good draft of the Technology Plan completed yesterday!
