Archive for Possibility Thinking
And Yet Even More On Lenses
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Thanking the Universe for This Picture
Once our many lenses have allowed us to access the realm of our subjective awareness, our emotional and imaginal dimensions of intelligence kick in to help our process of self-identification. The exponential effect of self-awareness begins to escalate and we become more and more aligned with our authentic nature. Now, we are in a whole new world of bringing self-knowledge into conscious competence, of building authentic self-worth, and thus of integrating ego as a healthy champion of the true self.
So, when we look through many lenses and choose what applies to us uniquely, maybe we are actually cutting through all of the conditioning we’ve gotten throughout life from the outside world. Maybe we are accessing the raw data of our essential DNA. If so, we are not really creating a new self with our collage, we are re-membering who we actually are. Maybe that’s why ease and grace show up!
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I Think I Can, I Think I Can . . .
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That’s been my mantra for the past three months as I’ve convinced myself to keep writing our business plan even though there were many days when I didn’t have a clue as to what to do next, huffing and puffing my way up the long slow hill. I’m not quite to “I Knew I Could, I Knew I Could,” but by golly, I’m close and I’m just dancing with joy to see once again how the creative process works.
In the beginning, nothing but an intention and ten dozen concepts. Next, exploring those concepts for the ones that may be pertinent. Trying not to close down my options out of a need for completion. Then, massaging the many options into some kind of form and sense. Knowing that what I have isn’t really what I want. Stopping, frowning, shaking the head and wondering how they will every integrate. Then suddenly, just when all seems impossible, breakthrough. Everything falls into place in ways that far exceed the original intention. WaaHoo Choo Choo!
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!
How Fun!
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Well, today’s meeting was everything I hoped it would be! There’s a draft of the business plan coming back to me sometime before midnight, and great energy for moving forward to get it ready for presentation to others.
Allan and I will crunch numbers again soon to complete that piece. And to top it all off, we have a plan for testing our marketing funnel – something I’ll be sharing here in the next few days, so stay tuned.
I knew when I took on responsibility for getting the plan together that it would be a big job, but I certainly didn’t think it would take so long. Just a lot of ducks to row up – ducks roaming like cats!
We’re on our way, though. How fun!
Hanging in the Dangle
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I just love it when the universe conspires to provide exactly what I need regarding my daily schedule. For instance, after an exciting meeting with Allan yesterday, I am pumped to begin working on the next draft of the business plan. So many compelling opportunities await its completion. But my schedule for today was full and, alas, my next planned writing window was not until Sunday.
Then late yesterday a three hour meeting this afternoon was canceled because the organizer was feeling poorly. And this morning, a client called feeling unwell too, so another hour opened up. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not reveling in the discomfort of my associates, just noticing that I all of a sudden have four extra hours today. A perfect block of writing time. Yeah, ease and effortlessness rule!
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.
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!
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.
