This week’s Vlog is a timely release on the first day of Spring. The season to harvest the fruits of our labors.
My recent vlog ‘What Emazon is not’ created a little stir as it may have brought home some truths. I love it when a statement or information rattles our psyche and gets our attention like that. It is a sure sign the statement is well timed and has crossed our path for a reason. Many of you know I like to deliver my insights and information without the sugar coating. I believe there are certain topics that need to be pulled out of the closet and placed out in the open without the distraction of political correctness. So for the purpose of clarity, allow me to expand further on last week’s reality hit. Sugar-Free.
Here I explain we simply prolong our breakthroughs by sitting in no-mans-land: the space between what we have repetitively tried/failed and what we fear to explore. It’s call avoidance. For whatever reason we paralyse ourselves from seeking out new information, new coaches, new methods and new ideas and this leaves us “sitting on the fence”. Whether it is the comfort of the devil you know or the skepticism of seeking out something new it doesn’t change the fact; if nothing changes, nothing changes. It’s that simple.
So how do I get off the fence?
Well as my last week’s sugar free hashtag states #stopfuckingaround and MOVE. Yes, you literally move by creating momentum through action. And no I don’t mean in the action of physical training. I mean the action to pursue new information. So many people who attend the Ignite Tour, have a 1:1 on with me or complete a workshop report their outlook started to change the moment they registered. They were immediately struck by relief, excitement and curiosity the moment they invested their time and money into their personal growth.
The other important rule of getting off the fence is to remove the fear attached to the idea of “absolute”. Stop holding onto the illusion ‘This will be it” when we invest in our development. It is a set up for disappointment to think a program, book, seminar or coach will give you the holy grail of answers in one hit. These investments allow you to gather the puzzle pieces of your Red Print. One experience leads you to another and one breakthrough propels you to the next. This is the solid path to understanding “My Body, My Rules”.
After an Emazon event it is common for me to hear “When you said ______, it just clicked”. This refers to the so called “light bulb” that people relate to being a moment of clarity. These are your feathers. When we accumulate enough light bulbs, this leads to an awareness. Once we build on an awareness and act on it, this soon becomes awakening. Before you know it, you are off the fence. However, this doesn’t change the fact you gotta move first.
Some of you feel impaled on your fence, I understand. Lee Squire sums it up beautifully in her interview on addiction at Ignite when she explains the breakthrough moment that lead her to rehab. When she allowed the reality of her addiction to set in, so did its solution. When she gave herself permission to see the truth of the situation, its destruction and the control alcohol had over her was the moment she gained the power to change it. As I say in this weeks vlog: “The things we fear the most, are the ones that are destined to break us free”.
For my ladies out there who like their information filtered through the right side of the brain and translated into sacred contexts (my mystic-geeks), I relate it to the story of Isis and the Seven Scorpions. Isis was the Goddess who could cause the power of the seven scorpions to yield to her intent by identifying each one and calling them by their name. The true identity of a scorpion could only be revealed in the split moment it struck its victim. Then it would disappear. They were known to shape-shift themselves into various forms to remain undetectable to their victims. Isis disguised herself to appear weakened and vulnerable to them in order to draw them to her and strike simultaneously within reach. They fell into her illusion and in doing so, exposed their names. They were bound to the law once the secret identity of the scorpions has been spoken, they were to “yield their power to whom speaks their name”.
So a simple message that translates to both sides of the brain: #stopfuckingaround, call out the truth and #getoffthefence.
