Well, it’s been quite a first month on the Intentional Creation circuit. The assessment, the calls, the clients have been nothing short of amazing. The process works – it MORE THAN works. When I first saw the presentation in November ’09 I was blown away that there was a way to measure one’s thoughts. I’m even more in awe that we can use that as a starting point, a springboard for where someone wants to go in a coaching engagement. What a much more productive place to start than relying on a client to self-report where they are and where they want to go. That’s the equivalent of looking in the mirror and seeing the lion, know what I mean??
One of the greatest paradoxes of our physical senses, is that our eyes actually show you what you believe, not what you see.
Some clients come to the coaching program for a new life and begin the process of intentionally creating their lives. Others begin awkwardly, hanging on to old thoughts and habits, not realizing they are clinging to old ways. Prospects show up looking for a guarantee. The only one I can give them is that “I guarantee you currently have no clue what is possible for your life.” Prospects come to the call well conditioned in systemic and extrinsic thinking. Only when the intrinsic world enters and blows the seams apart are inward eyes illumined.
So as March turns into April, I want to share a progress report. The process most vividly reminds me of my favorite poem by my favorite poet, David Whyte. The youtube link is below, but it’s worth spending time with the words as well:
THE JOURNEY
by David Whyte
Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again
painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.
Sometimes everything
has to be
enscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
small, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out
someone has written
something new
in the ashes
of your life.
You are not leaving
you are arriving.
Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you…….
You are not leaving – you are arriving.
Here’s David doing the reading:
Wonder what April will bring.
