A Great Question to Ask Yourself
"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?"
- question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ’s Collaboration Day - thanks for a great conversation all!)
Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol
I am SO mindful that such questions as this one bring us back to what actions we CAN do, and take us away from what we can’t…back into the world of knowing everything is possible…
Too often (as I mentioned in the previous post before) we focus on what we are not yet, or aren’t ever…and of course there is the obvious dance between being and becoming.
I am reminded of a time when a client was blocked on the fact that she would lose her job and didn’t know where her income would come in. Thinking about money and job she didn’t have made her almost cry (and believe me, she isn’t a crier)…but when we started speaking about her skills - the various skills she did have: from the corporate all the way through to her hobby of gardening and looking after her nieces - she began to see that rather than focusing on the barrier of what she didn’t have and couldn’t do - ‘no money’ ‘no job offers’ - she could be many many things and she suddenly ‘felt free to get started, even if some would be interim’…
So what are you waiting for: Who Are You Already Now That You Can Be?
- why not just start with that?
A Related Story: The Golden Lamb
Told to me by storyteller, Chris Corps, at Emerson in May this year. I will write it up in my own words and find the story source shortly…see the comments section in coming days - Lamb Image source) In Chris’s version it ends with a Caliph giving each of the three young men in the story a cloak, bread and sandles for their journey and this piece of advice:
"Do not despair in that which you do not have. Rejoice in that which you do have"
Some related posts:
- on my/one’s role
- failure breeds success
- every person is a world
- get out there and leap
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July 20th, 2007 at 3:47 am
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