Inner Whizdom

I keep taking steps to develop this web application and these doors keep opening. I get a new piece of information and I act on it. I get an idea that solves a problem or takes us in a new direction. It’s really fascinating in a meta sense.

Sometimes I’m more courageous when I’m completely out of my element.

I had a great idea the other day. Every time I tell someone about it I get more enthusiastic.

It happened to occur on the same day that I had a conversation with a woman who has a side business called “Has God Given You A Great Business Idea?”

Sometimes my ideas cool down and I don’t follow through.  This one seems to have legs. I want to make it happen.  I’m also very excited to be partnering with my best cousin. I think we will make a great team.

2009 will be the year for our killer app, code name: Starbox.

Sometimes my default reaction to a question or challenge is deer-in-the-headlights panic that I know nothing and will be found out as a fraud. If I can give myself a little time and space the fear dissipates and my sense returns. It helps to remember that the answers I’m being asked for are smart human-sized, not complete detailed solutions to world economic collapse. I don’t have to have everything all figured out by myself immediately.

I am a smart human. Fear just shuts off my brain. If I can let it pass I have access to my wisdom again. And that’s enough.

I’ve been thinking about why I admire my friend Anna Forbes so much. I think it’s because she doesn’t worry about making a fool of herself.  She doesn’t let the fear of foolishness limit her. Therefore she lives a very large life.  She doesn’t make any more blunders than those of us who tread carefully. And any embarrassing moments are quickly forgotten. Anna models fearlessness magnificently. I want to be like her.

(This appeared in the Career Management Alliance newsletter on 6/30/08)

When I was coaching full time, a main staple of my practice was people who wanted to transition out of dead end jobs. In many cases they had waited until they were truly miserable before calling. I love helping them find their way out of a bad situation and start to thrive.

When I sat down today to write the E-Bridge I looked up the Declaration of Independence (to be timely), and I was struck by the similarity of the situations– a workplace or government that had become intolerable.

It states, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

While I don’t recommend that employees overthrow management, I do advocate a strong feeling of empowerment. It is a person’s right and duty to stop suffering the insufferable.

I hope you all have a powerful and glorious Fourth, and pursue (and catch) some happiness.

I’ve been getting some feedback recently that surprises me. People are responding to me as though I need reassurance that I’m okay.

I’m doing really well. Inside I feel pretty contented and peaceful.

The feedback I’m getting indicates that’s not the message I’m sending. I must have some leftover self-deprecating behaviors that I don’t even notice.

I want to show the world the way I feel inside.

I admire Oprah for using her celebrity to promote Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. She uses fame and wealth to do big vital things. No wonder she’s successful.