Hi folks,
I’ve been thinking on possibility.
My intention for this year for my business is expansion (in nervous system safe ways).
For expansion, I’ve realised you need to better understand possibility…
Being a parent is great for this because we naturally have conversations most days about what’s possible in life.
My son wants to work with animals - he weaves in and out of talking about moving to Africa. He’s done this since he was very small. I can see that’s the path for him so I actively encourage it.
When I knew I wanted to work in ‘the arts’ lots of people told me it’s not about ‘what’ you know it’s about ‘who’. I must have heard that tens of times before I was 15.
When you’re making decisions about GCSEs (topics) and other pathways in a school system you really only have the choices put in front of you.
What if it’s not about that at all?
I often tell my son most of the work I’ve done in my life didn’t exist when I was 15.
The organisations didn’t exist or they didn’t have the departments I worked in. I’ve encouraged him that in the entrepreneurial space anything is possible.
That’s what’s different now. The internet has changed EVERYTHING.
It’s not about what or who you know anymore although of course doors can be opened and nepotism is rife in the entertainment industry.
What if it’s now more about how you are known.
It’s about what’s memorable in you.
Journal Prompts
What is it that you want to be known for?
What is one tiny tweak you can make online to support this vision?
If your best friend/ biggest cheerleader was celebrating the work you do in a room with people who could change your life, what would they say?
What happens next?
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We are the architects of our stories but we have to make aligned moves. We have to pay conscious attention to our language. We have to fill our lives with people who know it’s possible… we have to change the vibration.
My husband’s dream as a kid was to be a stuntman for film. He’s not a stunt man, he’s a therapist and holistic healing coach.
My guess is people told him “that’s nice” but didn’t open up the channel of expansion and possibility. That he practised the physical side but didn’t get an anchor into the practical side. I would argue his military background showed him his childhood visions but in a new way. When we first met, he was always climbing walls and things while I held my breath and our baby in my womb.
Write your own name badge.
Before I founded my company, I knew what it was called and I would write it on my name badges for events. I would talk about what I did as part of the work and as part of it try and piece together what it would look like in the future.
I’m writing this in real time and my five year old daughter has woken up and is singing whilst drawing and colouring a big pink fish. It’s a happy song - she’s storytelling.
She found a huge bone on the beach last weekend and brought it home. She said she wanted to wish for a cuddly fish to appear magically in its place.
I looked for one briefly in London for her but I didn’t find one.
The search continues. She might forget but if she doesn’t - you bet I’m manifesting/ buying her a bright pink cuddly fish, leaving it on the doorstep and burying the bone under dahlia tubers in the back garden!
If you see one, let me know?
Claire
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Love this perspective on potential! Impact is important to me - doing work that really matters and has long term effects. Love the prompt-what do you want to be know for. One I come back to again and again 😊
Gorgeous, Claire. Both this and Sparkle support boundless possibility and it’s such an expansive word (also to be fair, I’m probably still quite triggered by its evil cousin, Potential!)