I’ve been thinking a lot about intention, presence, and co-creation these past couple of weeks. As I was working with a client this past week, I got what I like to call a download. These come in pretty often when I’m working with a client, but this one was really good, and I really want to share the concept with all of you.
How many times have you heard the phrase “Hindsight is 20/20?”
I know I have said it a lot. Looking back at experiences in our life is how most of us learn. We learn from our mistakes, we learn from challenges and crises by looking back. We look at finding the silver lining, the lesson, and the gift. Looking back and finding the gift in some of the most difficult times in my life, has been invaluable. It’s allowed me to move forward, change what needed to be changed, take the lesson, and leave the rest. But what if you didn’t have to learn from your hindsight, or someone else’s hindsight?
What if you could be so intentional and aware, that you are consciously learning as you go and co-creating your life and business? Knowing that you are completely supported by the Universe.
One of the things I have been really playing with in my business and life right now, is to sit in total trust.
Trusting that the right things, people, and opportunities will reveal themselves at the exact right time. Keeping a very conscious awareness around what is showing up in my life and what is trying to reveal itself to me.
Watching what is being revealed, is a very subtle process. It’s often times quiet like a whisper you may hear, but more often it gets dismissed. When these quiet whispers are dismissed, you miss opportunities, red flags, and connections. You may often only see this in looking back at situations. This is hindsight.
When you stop and connect with the stillness within you and listen, watch, and trust, you can move into intentional foresight.
Keeping an intentional conscious awareness around what is revealing itself to you, gives you opportunities and choices. From this point, you can then make a conscious decision on whether the opportunity showing up is right for you. These are decisions you want to check in with yourself and see how they feel.
Do a gut check. Does this opportunity feel right to you? (For more information on this check out this blog “Can You Feel It?”). Your trusting and choosing from a conscious place of awareness as to what is right for you. You are learning in the moment, you are noticing if something just feels off instead of ignoring it.
I’m not saying you will always get this right, but the more time you can spend in this very intentional place of trust and awareness, you will be stepping into co-creation.
If you have read my last few blogs, I talk about giving up the concept of work and stepping into creation. Creating what you want your life and your business to look like. NO APOLOGIES!
Co-creation happens when you sit in a place of trust, knowing that you are fully supported and taking action on what reveals itself to you.
This may mean you take an opportunity, make a connection, accept a new client, partnership, etc. This may also mean that you choose to say no to all of the above, noticing that even though it is showing up it’s not the path for you to take.
This is learning in the moment. This is foresight. Trusting and co-creating.
“There’s no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there’s no such thing as creating alone. Everything, every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.”
~Gary Zukav
As I have been focused on this since the beginning of January, I am finding it easier and easier to sit peacefully in this place. In the beginning, it was really hard to wrestle with “I’ve got to be doing something”. When I get into this mode, I miss stuff because I’m so busy trying to make something happen. When I am more intentional, taking action or inaction on what is revealing itself in the moment, I am much more peaceful. I am a better mother, wife, coach, and friend to myself.
I invite you to play with this concept and let me know how it’s going for you.
If you want to give this concept a go here are a few steps I took:
- Give yourself permission to have space in your calendar. Time for you that is not scheduled. This allows you to have space to take advantage of new opportunities that pop up. This also helps to calm the overwhelming and chaotic feeling of being over booked. Warning this may feel really counter-intuitive and uncomfortable. That’s okay! Stay with it.
- Come from a mindset of curiosity. Watch what gets your attention and be curious about it. Don’t judge it – just be curious. Why is this showing up right now? Take a bird’s eye view.
- Breath. I found when I would get really uncomfortable with blank space, and I would start stressing out about not doing something, breathing deep grounding breaths, helped to calm the feeling, ground me, and help me be curious about why I felt like I always had to be doing.
- Get clear on what you really want and believe. Spend some time really looking at what is it you want your business to look like and what do you believe about what you do. What do want to create in your life and check in, do they align with each other? What really works for you and your family? I revisit this question a lot with my clients and myself.
- OWN IT! Own how good you are at what you do. Own what you want to accomplish. I loved that while watching the Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin said she was not going to apologize for being ambitious and wanting to be the best. YOU are the PERFECTION from which you come. Own it! Own your unique gifts and talents. Be brave, courageous, and play big – OWN IT!
Sit in foresight and allow what’s possible to reveal its self to you! Trust and Co-Create the life and business you want. You’ve got this!