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Welcome to this edition of Meaningful eMail with the most recent takeaway and updates linked here at the top, and then a full article for your consideration.
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Recent Takeaways & Updates
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Top Takeaway: Designing Your Life by Burnett and Evans
Approach your life as a designer to create a well-lived, joyful experience.
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New Resource: The Secret to Unlocking Your Genius
Check out my new guide for discovering, then using, your genius!
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Let's Explore
How can we step into our power?
One of the amazing transformations I’m privileged to see through coaching is when someone starts to step into their power.
They come to coaching stuck in a rut, unhappy with their situations, tentative with their decisions and unsure about their next step.
To see them begin to feel their own energy and create meaningful momentum is like watching an autumn bonfire spark into full flame. And the warmth and light that comes from that bonfire benefits so many - family, friends, colleagues, even the community at large
They make decisions more quickly, explore options with curiosity, spend more time doing things they love to do and connecting with people who support them. They see events as not as a thing that happens TO them, but FOR them - lessons which help them evolve into a truer version of themselves.
They still have to do the laundry, pay bills, go to wonky meetings, but they feel and own their energy, knowing that they have the power to address these in a way that best fits them and their situation.
As I see more clients move through this process, I’m always looking for patterns to help clarify what’s happening and how we might repeat it, and even sustain it.
What if it starts with knowing:
- Who we are
- What’s important to us
- What we want
And then what if we pursue activities which reflect those?
And do so while honoring how we come from and fit into the greater good?
As you think about the times in your career - in your life - when you felt like all cylinders were firing and the stars were aligned, how much were each of those aspects listed above a part of that equation?
And then, on the opposite end, as you think about time in your career and life when you felt like your light had been dimmed, maybe that you were shoved over in the corner even - which of those aspects listed above were missing?
I'm still exploring this theory and I hope you will as well. I'm gathering resources, reading some amazing books and talking to people who are squarely in their power and those who'd like to be.
If you'd like to dig deeper too, let me know what you think about those aspects listed above. Do you see those as a start? What else would you add? I'd love to get on a call to hear your stories of when you stepped into your power and those when you felt like it had been taken away. You can grab a spot on my calendar here.
Stepping into our power, unlocking our genius, these are absolutely necessary for us to make the most of our second half. We have so much yet to do!
