The bravest thing we can do…

…is to rewrite the script we’ve been handed.

We are all working from an invisible, inherited story about what work is and how success happens. It’s so embedded in our culture we rarely see it, much less question it.

This old script tells us success comes from constant striving, that emotions are liabilities, that our worth is measured by output, that we are separate from each other and the planet, and that there is never enough time, money, or resources. It convinces us to wait… for a better boss, better position, better timing, better circumstances. In the meantime, we dim our light and hold back the gifts we have to offer.

The truth is, the world is moving faster than our ways of thinking. What’s needed is for us to cultivate our inner capacity to question the assumptions we have inherited, disrupt what no longer serves us, and choose how we want to work and lead now.

It also requires us to put ourselves in spaces where we can be in community with others to face the world as it is, heartbreak and all, without losing our humanity or our hope. It means remembering that we are so much more than we can imagine, that we are vast, and part of the gift and mysteries that life truly is.

This is not easy work, but it is essential work for coaches and other change makers. The story you live by shapes everything you do and think. The ones we have all inherited are no longer serving us. It is time to write a new one.

What old scripts are shaping how you show up in your own life? as a coach? as a leader? as a change maker?

 If you refuse to agree and align with the fear, what would be possible?