What's Possible, Today?
What’s possible, today?
A simple—and hopefully simplifying—question:
What's possible, today?
Not what will you be able to do next year with more experience, or next month when you finish the certification, or next week when things “calm down”.
What's possible here, now, with who you are and what you currently have?
The more honest we can be about this, the more reasonable we can be with our self-expectation, and the more trust we can build with ourselves as a result.
Because we're no longer putting 20 things on our list and only crossing off 2, or expecting 3 years of growth to happen in 3 months...
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A couple of ways you could apply this:
What's one thing I can do today to move my business forward? Is there an email I can send, a previous or potential client I can reach out to, a clarifying conversation with a team member I can have… What energy and time do I have, and what's one small action I trust myself to do given that capacity?
What’s one thing I can do today to care for myself? Eat lunch outside, take a 10-minute spin around the block, stretch while I’m making coffee, put a hot water bottle behind my back, pull a favourite trinket or photo onto my desk… What would feel physically, emotionally, or environmentally fortifying?
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The reality is we can’t get all of what we want at once—all the growth, all the change, all the results. We will always be wanting. But that wanting doesn't have to stop us from acting.
It can be such a trap—and a lingering symptom of perfectionism—to think we can't experience any of something unless we can experience ALL of something.
Possibility is a practice.
Any action in the direction of what's important to you is powerful.
Where do you have choice, today.
What is possible for you, today.
Start there. It's enough.
— Kate
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