How do I know it will be exceptional? Because it’s Olympics year, it’s the Queen’s Golden Jubilee year, it’s a leap year, it’s the Year of the Dragon, it’s the end of the Mayan Calendar year, it’s the year of some extraordinary astrology, it’s the year I’m going to become a full-time human potential coach, it’s the year I hit the midpoint of my 50s. More of all that in later posts.
However, first things first. My pearl for 01/01/12 is this – my favourite quote from one of my all-time favourite films, Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come.”
OK, on the surface the movie was about Kevin Costner hearing voices which told him to build a baseball pitch. But it’s so much more than that. It’s about paying attention to the whispers, the little voices that speak to you about your heart’s vision – however foolish or over-the-top they may sound.
So if you have a project in mind for this year and the loud voices in your head (a gang of thugs with members such as the Inner Critic, the Perfectionist, the Pusher, the Controller, the Realist and the Protestant Work Ethic) are telling you it’s a waste of time, that you’ll fail, it’s pointless, who are you to be doing this, no one will be interested anyway – stick with the still, small voice of your intuition and quietly prepare the ground. If you create good, solid foundations then whoever “they” are, they will come, because the project will be managed by your authentic self. And you couldn’t find a better gaffer than that.
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