One of the criteria for completing my Supercoach Academy certification back in 2022 was for the seven of us to do a group project for the community.
Because my peers were all spiritually minded, heart-centered coaches, I thought it would be easy.
Oh, so naive.
Our lovely conversations over zoom went in circles. A few of my peers refused to take action from pressure – which for them, meant doing nothing. One opted out entirely because they didn’t see the point.
We had six months to create our project and with only 30 days left before our presentation in front of Michael Neill and his community, we had nothing.
So I decided to step in.
What the group wanted to create seemed clear to me. I reflected what I’d been hearing in the inspirations of each person, and refined until we found agreement.
We decided to create a platform for people to share free projects, experiences and stories of joyful giving. I led brainstorming names to represent our concept, until we settled on Love In Action.
Once we were in movement, everyone got excited. Some people still chose not to participate, but the rest of us didn’t care.
I bought a domain, summarized our Love In Action guidelines, made a video and set up a Linktree. One coach created a Telegram group and taught us how to use it, another scheduled our zoom community sessions, and we agreed about who would present our Love In Action project: me and two of my peers.
I wonder now why it took me so long to take the reins.
I felt frustrated with the clueless meanderings of the group, but also had tremendous resistance about jumping in to “save” them.
“Why should I be the one to do it?” I thought.
My thoughts were full of what I could do, judgements about what others were doing, opinions about what we should be doing…It was all about ME.
Then something shifted.
It stopped being about me and it started being about making this group project happen.
It no longer mattered who did the work or took the lead. What really mattered was making Love In Action real.
When I cared more about creating the project than I did my thinking about it, I was willing to do whatever it took. Things shifted into gear and we got it done.
Magic happens when you stop caring about what you think, and you simply do what you know to do.
When you’re up to something cool, others who are aligned step in to assist.
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
In case you’re wondering, our project was well–received and we all graduated. 🎓
Our Love In Action group project died out after a few months, but the seeds of that creation stayed alive in me.
In fact, it’s what inspired the LoveInAction.community, of which the IMPACT membership is just one small part.
This community isn’t mine; it’s ours. It belongs to all of us, and the creativity and brilliance that comes through the collective continues to astound me.
Yours in love and play,
Steph
