Many of you know that Andy and I took up cycling this year, and we’re preparing to do a 150 mile ride through the Lakes District, called the C2C in June. So we’ve been cycling most weekends, and occasionally during the week as well. Well…I started, and then got a bit distracted over the past few weeks…
So last weekend, Andy, myself, and two good friends of ours took a ferry across to the Isle of Wight, where we stayed for the long weekend and participated in a cycle tour of the
I’ve been referring to “Agile Living” for a while now, and in conversation with someone the other day, I realized that the words “agile living” are loaded with meaning for me. And I got to thinking that perhaps it’s time for me to unpack the meaning of Agile Living by writing something of an “Agile Living Manifesto.” I also wanted to start our journey of discovery around leadership and contribution by sharing what I’ve discovered so far about the contribution I want to be making in the world, and to tell you a bit about myself and what’s shaped my thinking along the way. This is a long post again – don’t worry, we’ll be back to shorter ones and getting into the experiential stuff I spoke about next week. So here goes…
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
(This is a long post, and it’s not broken up with pictures or bullet points, so you probably can’t scan it. But that’s just the beginning of the blogging rules I’m going to be breaking…)
paintedchildMany of you know that in December 2008, Andy and I packed up our cottage in Cape Town, and moved to the UK, and I began converting my Cape Town face-to-face coaching business to a location-independent business. As someone who barely had an online presence at all, prior to December 2008 (I had a basic blogger.com blog that I updated once a month!), a big learning curve for me was to learn about how to set up an online presence and how to use that platform effectively to make it easy for people to find me and easily