Archive for Inner Critters
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?
Jiminey Critters
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I was with a woman today who was having a full-on, public Inner Critter attack. They had tied her up such that she just knew she could not move. They had control of her mind, her voice, her body and of course, her emotions. She ranted, she railed, she cried, she swore, she blamed the people around her, she blamed the world around her, she even blamed people who were clearly trying to help her. Wow!
I haven’t seen a Critter storm like that in a very long time. Made my Critters look like pikers.
And then, something wonderful happened. She had just a moment of self-reflection, just one moment, but it was enough of a pause in the pandemonium that she could breath and let another voice in, her Whisperer. Her tone grew softer and lighter as she said, “I know this will pass. I’m just emoting because I feel safe to emote here in this setting.” Amazing.
Just had to share that as a reminder that there’s an eye (an I) in every Critter storm.
Tomorrow, a meeting on the business plan. I’m stoked.
Restart!
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Okay, I’ve finally arrived back at my desk for real––body, mind, spirit and all––and am rededicating myself to this blogging thing. More than a few Inner Critters have made it clear to me that I should feel very remiss in having been absent so long, but I’m Grooving them right outta there!
Current subject: getting the Pond Productions LLC business plan completed, and boy does that feel like herding cats right now. Maybe with my own focus realigned, things will come together in the next few days. Watch for developments, and of course, new and fresh versions of Critter chatter in my head!
Pea Soup
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Honestly, my head feels like pea soup just now, a side effect of having let the Critters get me up in the night. Embarrassing, really, as I pride myself on being able to silence them, but the combination of deep change in my life and too many carbs in my dinner created a situation that even the GrooveTool couldn’t remedy. At least not for a few hours.
The good news is that I didn’t fall completely down the rabbit hole. Picture me just at the entrance, pressing with all fours against the sides to keep myself from plummeting belly down into the abyss. Well, you know that place, right? Everyone knows that place.
So while my operating state isn’t optimal, I’m staying away from business planning, but I look forward to tomorrow morning when I meet with Tim and Roger regarding next steps. I cannot adequately say how wonderful it feels to have the support of two brilliant guys. Despite my head feeling like pea soup, life is good – actually, life is great!!
Horrors!
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I missed a day of blogging!!!
Oh, you bad, bad person. You so blew it. . . you promised to blog every single day. . . you promised!!! And now you’ve missed a day. You forgot, you dim wit! How could you.
No gold star for you today. No warm feeling of having fulfilled on your commitments. No welcomed comments from your readers. No deep sense of accomplishment. And what about that one special reader who told you just yesterday that your daily blogs were helping him in some strange way to navigate profound change in his life? Now you’ve let him down. Bad, bad, bad! Bad person.
Ya, ya, ya . . . I know you, you pesky Critter. I hear you, but I’m not letting you guilt trip me. No! I’m going to Groove you right out of here.
Critter Reality says: I have messed up totally and let everyone down. I feel guilty and ashamed.
My Whisperer Visions is: It’s okay that I missed one day of blogging. I always keep my commitments to the best of my ability, I’m a responsible, caring, good person.
And oh, now I get to share this real life example of the GrooveTool with my readers. Life is good!
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.
Critter Dream
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So now they’re coming after me in my dreams, those Inner Critters!
In the dream, I am setting up to play music, plugging in my electronic keyboard, but the extension cords and electrical outlets I am to use are a big mess and they look unsafe. A man, not so subtly dressed as a cat burglar, comes in with a jumble of tools and offers to help.
He dumps his tools at my feet and runs away. I realize that the tools are components of a bomb that will soon blow up the place. I throw them safely away and then pick up odds and ends left over, dirty, grimy parts of some contraption. I discard those as well.
Interpretation: there is a not so well disguised Inner Critter who would like to blow up my Bold Move toward a new iteration of our Pond Productions business, to prevent me from performing as it were. I gotcha fella! You’re just a pussy cat!
My husband thinks the cat burglar represents the pervasive forces in our culture who would like people to stay stuck instead of learning to make Bold Moves. If so, I like the fact that he didn’t have much finesse or staying power . . . meow.
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!
My Favorite Part!
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Today, outlining the biz plan section on Community Involvement, what a joy!
As Allan said recently, we could both effuse on this for hours, so the big challenge here is to keep it short and to the business points. Indulge me, then, while I effuse a bit here before having to thus constrain myself!
Bottom line, I just love helping people get it––that they can experience life as a well cell in our human biological system. Well cells know who they are and how to live life from passion and purpose in a state of ease and grace.
Rub up against a well cell, and you are likely to feel better yourself. They create a positive viral effect that has every cell around them dancing to a new tune! In this way, well cells actually create well communities. So, in a way, the BoldMoves work is itself, community involvement.
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.
