There’s a lovely saying:
“We plan, and God laughs.”
No matter how clear, compelling and SMART your goals for 2025 may be, life is going to have its way with you.
Timelines may go sideways due to illness or injury. What you planned doesn’t go off because of…I don’t know, hurricanes and wildfires.
(A dear friend has evacuated from his home in LA as I write this, and I had a personal adventure with Hurricane Milton last October.)
This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make plans; it’s just helpful to remember that just because we plan it, that doesn’t mean it should happen the way we want.
A coach recently asked, “How do I stay on track when life keeps throwing me curveballs?”
Well, you could sit down and have a talk with Life and ask it to be more reasonable. Good luck with that.
Or you can swing at whatever ball Life throws you.
Whatever you’d like to accomplish, create, or experience this year, you’re already on the path. There’s something that occurs to you to do right now.
Take that action.
And whatever comes up after that, take the next small action. And the next.
We humans are really, really good at making up stories about what’s going to happen in the future. (That’s what plans are, by the way, made up stories.)
Those stories can be fun to tell, and they can help us create something beautiful in the world.
But it’s helpful to remember that those stories don’t mean anything about what’s actually happening. What’s happening is what you have on your plate at this moment.
Right now, coaches have an important job.
There are people who need your help recovering from the devastation of natural disasters or wars, and to find sanity in a world that seems crazy.
If you want to reach those people and build your business so you can help them, making a good living in the process, this is the perfect time to slow down, get present with what is, and step up to bat so that you can make that next swing count.
REFLECT: Rediscover Joyful Direction, Focus and Ease, will help you get in touch with your inner direction, that guardian angel you’ve always had on your shoulder, who whispers what to do now. Not next week or next month, but right NOW.
In the space of a quiet mind, clarity about what you’d like to create and your next action will arise. And when life throws its curveballs (as it will) you’ll have a solid connection to the real-time Intelligence you need to deal with it.
Only a few days left until REFLECT begins! It’s included in your IMPACT membership, now at 45% off, and you get to keep this low rate as long as you’re a member.
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Yours in love and play,
Steph
