
Pain is not the enemy
It’s not actually our pain that stands in our way. It’s our wounds that hinder us. It’s our wounds that need to be healed. Our pain is simply the loyal messenger that will keep delivering its message until it is heeded.
Reflections on purpose, genius, leadership, inner transformation, and outer change.
It’s not actually our pain that stands in our way. It’s our wounds that hinder us. It’s our wounds that need to be healed. Our pain is simply the loyal messenger that will keep delivering its message until it is heeded.
Through our fixation on goals, we become prisoners – to our insatiable appetite for that next high, to external forces beyond our control, and to our need for something external to validate us.
Genius has a dual nature, much like how light acts both as a particle and a wave. It is our unique self and the call of the universe within us.
Our genius might be thought of as our unique creative power. It is creative because it brings new ideas, expressions, or behaviors into being. It is a power because it allows us to shape ourselves and the world.
If passion is the fuel and talent is the vehicle, we might think of our personal values as the compass that orients us in the right direction for our own unique journey.
We all have passions. We all have talents. And quite often, they overlap. This area of overlap is what we might call our zone of genius.
Genius is not something people are, genius is something people have. Genius is a capacity that every human has. In fact, perhaps it is actually what makes us human.
Everyone feels impostor syndrome. Unless you are lying about your qualifications or identity, you are NOT an impostor. You are simply in the growth zone, exactly where you should be.
Change is not only the end results that we can witness. Change is also the processes that we undergo within ourselves, our communities, and our organizations that produce those results.