I've long relied on a bold and beautiful dream to magnetise me towards my future joy, and it's something I've used with clients too. For a few years, I ran these big group challenges helping women to notice their desires and obstacles etc, and on the last day, I would ask them to speak to me AS IF THEY WERE BEAMING BACK AT ME from 5 years in the future. Like we were having a reunion- their future selves, tipping up with updates, speaking in the present tense about the vibrant lives they had created for themselves. It was so moving, and mobilising.
But right now, there's something about the long term that can feel overwhelming. Over, and over, we have seen deadlines shift ,and new limits on our freedoms, and our safety emerging. We've been riding wave after wave of ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! There's a temptation to put our happiness on hold until a definitive period of smooth sailing comes along. (I don't know why I'm so into this analogy when I'm even scared in our kayak, but I hope you get it).
The problem is, I don't see it happening. There will be no one day that we wake up and know, phew, it's over! And so, my intention for myself is to take stock- of my needs, my learnings, my resources, and to move forwards, through the choppy waters, one manageable sea mile at a time. Ok I'm done with the sea thing.
I'd like to share that approach with you- a willingness to get vulnerable enough to acknowledge what we want, EVEN THOUGH *all this* etc. And tools and strategies to facilitate step by step movement in that direction.