OPPORTUNITIES

When we’re faced with opposition, a good question to ask ourselves is are we missing an opportunity?

Opportunities oftentimes come to us wrapped within some sort of opposition.  We miss a lot of opportunities this way mostly because opposition stirs up fear.  What if we leaned in to the opposition instead rather than doing what we’ve always done, run away from fear?  What would happen then if we stood our ground and leaned into it?  Leaned into the fear and resistance?  What opportunity would we find?

We won’t know until we try.  But if nothing else we’ll find an opportunity to trust ourselves, to prove to ourselves that the fear did not, in fact, kill us.  

An opportunity to learn that, is a gift we’ll not want to miss receiving.

SHIFT

The most significant shifts are rarely huge.  Rarely are the things that change our lives earth shattering.  See, fear, is in the huge. Most of us expect ‘shaking in our boots’ kind of shock and awe when we think about change in our lives.  Little wonder we flinch at the prospect of change.  We resist.  We run the other way.  All we’re running away from though is fear, not change.

If we can stand still and lean into the fear instead we’ll actually recognize important life-changing insights that arrive small and quiet.  

TRUST

Why is it so important to be authentic?  What’s all the fuss about needing to be our true selves, our best selves, all that we can be, anyway?  Why make waves, why upset our lives, why disrupt the status quo?

I think it’s fundamental to trust.  How can we trust our intentions for ourselves, for others and for our world, if we are not first authentic to who we are, what we believe in and what we stand for.

The sad reality is that most of us sleepwalk through our lives having given our trust over to “things” that promise happiness, that feel safe.  That numbs us against fear.

I know this to be true by how difficult it is for most of us to articulate what it is that we truly want in our lives, what we stand for, what we believe in.  How much harder still it is for most of us to build a life from such a place of honesty.

I believe that when we strive to find our authentic selves we are actually looking to find trust in our capacity, trust in our wherewithal, trust in withstanding our fear and moving beyond it, in spite of it.

It’s not only important.  It’s everything.

“Bold authenticity is an immediate trust builder.” ~ Lauryn Ballesteros

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START

Finding the areas that need our attention isn’t difficult.  We just need to wait for the pain to surface.  The pain finds us.  

GETTING OVER OURSELVES

TOMORROW NIGHT, FRIDAY, MAY 10TH AT 7:30 PM AT C.O.R.E STUDIO, WE'LL BE GETTING OVER OURSELVES.  JOIN US.

COURAGE

Scratch the surface of any dysfunction and you will hit fear.  So if we’re in enough pain due to our dysfunction we need to move beyond it despite the fear we feel.  I’m not sure we understand how critically important this is.  How withstanding the fear is critical to the life we lead.  I love this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt:

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”

MOVE

We may have a life, but are we living it? Is our life just dormant seeds of possibility?What’s missing?  Action, movement, moving.

“There are three kinds of people, those who are immovable, those that are movable and those that move.” Benjamin Franklin