Amanda, I yearned to have all the answers, to see a straight line and follow it, until I read a post by a woman who's kid had survived a health crisis. On a heart monitor, she said, it's the ups and downs that mean life. A straight, flat line is *not* what you want. I took that to heart. And it helped me see other ways it's true. Breathing is the inhale *and* the exhale. The accordion expands *and* contracts to make music. In dance we move towards *and* away from our partner, our feet on *and* off the ground. So too our path in life, our creativity, our work, can be some of this and some of that. Certainty *and* patience, activity and rest, clarity and grace. Thanks for a beautiful post.
I love that you've begun to "create a portfolio career" for yourself. So often, people get stuck by looking for a single thing, especially people like you who are multifaceted in their gifts and personality. The what isn't as important as the 'who', meaning who we are in those things.
Now see, many of the professional improvement "gurus" would tell you that you are spreading yourself too thin, and not focusing your message, Amanda. Clearly, when we experience what it is like to connect all the things we do through the one thread of our purpose, and how they emanate from the essence of who we really are at our core, we find many opportunities to make life just a little bit better for the people we come in contact with every day.
Amanda, I yearned to have all the answers, to see a straight line and follow it, until I read a post by a woman who's kid had survived a health crisis. On a heart monitor, she said, it's the ups and downs that mean life. A straight, flat line is *not* what you want. I took that to heart. And it helped me see other ways it's true. Breathing is the inhale *and* the exhale. The accordion expands *and* contracts to make music. In dance we move towards *and* away from our partner, our feet on *and* off the ground. So too our path in life, our creativity, our work, can be some of this and some of that. Certainty *and* patience, activity and rest, clarity and grace. Thanks for a beautiful post.
I love that you've begun to "create a portfolio career" for yourself. So often, people get stuck by looking for a single thing, especially people like you who are multifaceted in their gifts and personality. The what isn't as important as the 'who', meaning who we are in those things.
I'm excited for the days ahead for you!
Now see, many of the professional improvement "gurus" would tell you that you are spreading yourself too thin, and not focusing your message, Amanda. Clearly, when we experience what it is like to connect all the things we do through the one thread of our purpose, and how they emanate from the essence of who we really are at our core, we find many opportunities to make life just a little bit better for the people we come in contact with every day.