I’m not a VC or even a millionaire.
I’ve never worked in corporate or led a team in a work situation.
I don’t have a master’s degree.
I don’t wear fancy clothes or drive a fancy car.
I don’t spend much on jewelry or haircuts.
I don’t spend thousands on vacations.
BUT
I am an exceptional listener.
My intuition is ON POINT.
I ask powerful questions.
I like very much to check out of society for hours, days, or weeks at at time backpacking, kayaking, or rafting long distances.
I often wear jeans and walk barefooted in the woods.
And I often work with very, very outwardly successful people who, inwardly and secretly, are very, very unhappy with their outwardly successful lives.
I offer them something I call “An Outside Perspective (TM).”
Instead of staying in their world – which is very climate controlled, comfortable, and sanitized – I take them out into THE world. Out into Nature, where the songs of birds, the hum of insects, and the steadiness of trees offer a different kind of soundtrack.
Being able to hear one’s inner voice is powerful. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable. Occasionally it’s downright disruptive.
I’m good with that.
See, your inner voice is trying really hard to give you instructions for your right life (inner peace, personal satisfaction, professional fulfillment).
Sometimes those instructions are completely at odds with how you’re living right now.
I’m good with that. Can you be?
Most times, there’s nothing dramatic to do *right now* when you receive that inner wisdom.
Hearing it is what matters. That’s the place to begin. That’s the practice.
From there, you can start making small changes. New choices. Creating alignments. Letting fall what needs to fall. Peeling away layers of cultural conditioning. Unpacking stories.
Over time, 3, 6, 12, 24 months, things begin to shift, sometimes dramatically. That’s when you start to feel the difference.
What used to be itchy falls away. Now it feels all “cashmere comfortable.”
What used to be ponderous and slow has been set free. Now life feels “Ferrari fast.”
Where your time used to be not your own, jammed up with meetings, and stupidly, unsustainably hectic suddenly feels spacious. Now life feels like endlessly clean “Moser minutes.”
Greg McKeown talks about “less but better.”
Your journey out of the ordinary and into “an outside perspective” offers the same.
It’s a journey of INNER quality.
Ready?
Warmly,
Angie
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