Are you playing your Best Game?

I wrote this letter (to myself?) on June 22, 2009, and referenced the music video you see above.
Ethan Lipton and his Orhestra:

Don't go with your song still inside you!

Let it guide you, everyday

We all know that it's good to be humble

but don't fumble

don't grumble

don't mumble..... your life away!

Have you looked inside recently?  Have you seen the clutter and jumble, the unwrapped gifts?  The crumpled papers and reminders?  Is there, a laundry list longer than your arm and a promise left unspoken?

It doesn't surprise me at all.  If you're anything like me, you've left a lot of things unsaid, unfinished or "unstarted".  But you know you've got to, right?

It's time to COME OUT!

You have a bigger game to play.  You have a calling, a passion, a desire ~ to help, to serve, to "solve a problem", to restore the confidence of one other human being.  You are being called to BE who YOU ARE!

Not what society thinks you should do.  Not the perfect mother, perfect business owner, perfect double income earner, perfect athlete with a perfect body,
and perfect clothes, perfect highlights and perfect nails.  Or the perfect truck, perfect Friday nights or perfect vacations.

It really is overwhelming when I write that list.  Can you feel it too?

But where does any of that get us?  I think it just makes me want more.  No where in that "formula" do I recognize a space where I can say "enough".  I'm just on a hamster wheel, looking for the next Big Thing.

In business I call it "the Bright Shiny Object Syndrome".  For me, its not just about accumulating things.  But it's often about keeping my mind busy with the next project so I don't really have any time to think.  Or worse yet, feel.  And then ultimately live my life as a human being.

Have you seen it yet?  The shift between the words "DO" and the words "BE"?

It is my job, my responsibility to slow down.  To find a way to Be a human being (not a human doing).  And in that slowing down, is the moments to reflect and listen.  Where I can hear the passion calling me.  And it rarely makes sense at first.  Because it's merely an idea passing by.  I don't often have a frame of reference yet.  I don't know about the technology, or the people who have already started the ground work.  I just know I have to do something.  To move forward.

And when I do move forward.  When I listen, instead of going into hyper planning mode and over analysing everything.  I hear it clearer this time.  And the next time it's clearer still.  This message about bringing people together to communicate and collaborate.  People from all walks, but with similar experiences.  Some at the start of their journey, and some seasoned veterans.  We can still always learn something new from each other.  It's always been that way.

So, I step out and try this new big thing.  One step at a time.  What's your next step?  Are you listening to the call?  It's really time to play your biggest game!

p.s.  Not your Best or Perfect ~ but it's BIG!

 

Loralee