Recently, a colleague and I joked about a possible new tagline for my work: ‘give a shit, differently’.
While it’s deliberately flippant, it equally speaks to something much deeper, that I’d love to share with you:
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My business coach set me and my fellow mastermind members a challenge recently. The challenge was to reach out to 50 people in 7 days. Importantly, it was based on authentic connection, not about selling or any kind of ulterior motive: purely about connection.
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Recently, I stepped into the experience of life modelling for the first time. It was an incredibly uplifting, affirming experience. It was a simultaneously heart-thumping and calmly powerful experience.
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I said this – that THERE IS ROOM FOR EVERYONE – during a circle that I facilitated last week with a group of women, and saw several people relax and expand.
As we step forwards to bring our own ideas and change to fruition, it’s a vital message to keep in our minds.
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What does that word evoke for you?
What does it feels like?
What does it looks like?
What is your relationship with it?
What is our relationship with it?
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Of the many things that stayed with me, three of the most important were:
- A reminder that many adults don’t play as much as they’d like or need to
- Play is a necessity, not a luxury
- Play is absolutely something that we can reintroduce into our lives
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‘The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.’ Barry H. Gillespie
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What do I mean by showing up imperfectly?
To me, it means noticing the narrative that says that I have to show up / create / do something perfectly (yep, doesn’t exist), or not at all. An all or nothing. An impossible all or nothing as one of them doesn’t exist!
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We all fail. All of us. There is no way not to do it.
It’s part of being human, part of being creative, part of learning.
We know, intellectually, that failing goes hand in hand with success, arguably not as its polar opposite, but as part of the same process.
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The slowness of winter, so needed and so valid, starts to yawn awake. The life that has been resting for the past few months is ready to begin moving into growth. The dreams that have been percolating can stir into shape.
This is a time of ‘what if?’, a time of new beginnings, and of all the excitement and also vulnerability that can come with them.
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It's in the spaces that we create, the rest, the 'being', that we might notice and listen in to what the darkness has to reveal to us, or within us. In these spaces, visions are born, ideas percolate, connections grow.
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In the natural world, plants and animals exist in cycles and these cycles include rest and restoration. Nature as our guide has so much to teach in this regard.
And we are animals. We have energetic rhythms, within our days, our months, and our years. Rest sits as as essential within this.
My arms, that have largely been protectively closed this past 18 months, are unfurling, opening to invite in adventure, opportunities, to lead more boldly, to connect even more fully, to lean forwards and skip and dance again. I do this knowing that I’ll build in pause, restoration, and comfort, that balance is the way forwards.
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If nature is a necessity, rather than a luxury, for our mental wellness, a necessity for our engagement in the fight against climate change, how do we bring this into our everyday lives?
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I’m so pleased to have written this guest blog for the amazing community at BelongCon
More than ever, at this time of COVID-19, we have time to feel, time to think. For many of us, our every emotion is heightened and our needs shift wildly, sometimes hidden in their nature, including to our self. Our internal and external worlds can feel as though they’re in swirling chaos; for many, our anchor points have disappeared; our certainties are uncertain…
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I ran a half marathon every month in 2018 – in pursuit of charity fundraising and, well, because it was an awesome challenge! In this article, I’ve explored WHY, HOW, MY WIDER LEARNINGS, and my VERDICT on each race. I hope this inspires you to take on your own challenge!
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Dear self, I’m writing to you from a place of strength and self-belief. A letter to read when you don’t believe. When you think that you can’t do it. When you think there’s no point. When you think that no-one will want to join you in what you’re doing, whether it’s work or life…
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Thank you for making this loving friendship feel so unconditional: it isn’t conditional on us having fun, though often we do; it isn’t conditional on my being ‘okay’, though often I am; it isn’t conditional on my being able to fully explain myself and where my head is, though sometimes I can, because you understand, or if you don’t, that’s okay.
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You feel whole. You feel solid. You are surrounded by water, as in your most formative state.
You clamber out: connected, grounded, a little bit brave.
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I’ve been thinking about where we put our focus a lot recently… and it seems other people have as well. As I talked about this with a friend a couple of weeks ago, I received this in an email from the marketing guru that is Seth Godin:
“We get what we remember, and we remember what we focus on”
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