As Rumi wrote: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
But, honestly, and no offence meant to Rumi, I think it’s human to feel irritated by this process. Let’s be real. It’s not fun being sanded, shaped and polished. It’s not fun facing all our fears and pain and parts of us we don’t yet know how to meet with love.
If you’re afraid to tap into your passion, you’ll never tap into your genius. And if you’re expressing passion from a place of anger and fear, you’ll never tap into your genius. So how do you use passion to tap into your genius?
It’s my birthday in 2 days, so I decided to do a retrospective on everything important I’ve learned. Here’s what I wrote.
Most people, when they set out to create their business, try to monetize their passion. Or, worse, they try to figure out what other people want and need, and give it to them.
But, if you know maverick millionaire entrepreneur, and TED Talks master, Derek Sivers, that’s actually his proven, successful model for starting businesses. Get serious about solving your own problems then share those solutions with others.
Dear Friends,
As you may have noticed, over the holidays I shut down most of my social media activities. This was a conscious decision, so I could hear what my Inner Voice is asking of me for 2016.
We all have that voice, but it’s hard to hear what it’s saying amid the drama and expectations of our daily lives, and especially during the non-stop marathon that is the holidays.
For many years I felt unbearably sad about the world, like I was being crushed inside by all the hate and division I saw on the evening news. Consumed by fear and depression, I decided to give up on humanity.
There’s a buildup of adrenaline pulsing through my body. I feel like punching somebody. But this doesn’t make sense, because I’m watching an inspiring TEDx video of Dan Millman, the author of one of my favourite books, that was turned into a movie called “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.” Irony much?
Every morning (and sometimes before bed as well), after I do my Emotional Awareness Meditation, I read this (fairly long) Sacred Daily Affirmation out loud with my hand over my heart. I can’t emphasize how empowering the results have been.
Before the age of 13, my “leaders” were young adult novelists like Paul Zindel and Judy Blume; they made me feel less weird alone. My earliest definition of leadership, if I could have defined it then, was someone who made it possible for other people, regardless of how different they were, to feel less “alien”, less disconnected and therefore “less alone”.
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