"You can't become something you can't imagine." The room grows silent, and I pause to let this sink in. My audience is a group of professionals gathered to talk about visioning and goal setting. As many participants admitted upon entering, two hours on a Saturday morning feels like a lot of time to take out of their busy weekend schedules to indulge in practices like sitting still and visualizing the future. But by the time the two hours had concluded, most participants walked away with a renewed sense of the importance of taking time to pause, track progress, assess intentions and recommit to goals. After all, if it works for so many hard-driving corporations dedicated to measurement and as
It requires a lot of vulnerability to admit you really want something. I'm in the process of applying for a job that I desperately want. And because I'm also in the space of conscious leadership, I'm noticing how vulnerable it is to really try. I am learning a lot about myself in the process. My normal pattern is to distance myself from those vulnerable feelings to avoid fully experiencing the anxiety and fear of not getting it. Brene Brown writes about the forms of armor we use to minimize pain and discomfort, and I notice myself reaching for my typical forms of armor: A tendency to under-prepare and subsequently blame outside circumstances for an inevitable failure. When we really want som
