Allow Yourself To Be Awkwardly Awesome

Being willing to step up to the unknown and rendezvous with our highest potential fully-realized can be an obstacle course, awkward and clunky at first, as we trip, stumble, and fall like a toddler in the early journey of discovering balance. The key is to keep getting up and get back to it. Part of mastering the journey with grace is allowing ourselves to get it “wrong” as part of getting it “RIGHT.” Each step along the way offers a lesson, an insight, and an opportunity.

As a stage director, I invite my cast members to come to the first rehearsal bringing everything they know about life, all the tools they have developed as an actor, AND a willingness to explore the unknown. The relief the actors feel when the pressure is o to “get it right” from the first rehearsal creates a clearing for exploration and discovery. That’s what rehearsals are for: to explore and play with as many options as we can imagine, harvesting golden nuggets along the way as we uncover creative genius. It’s called a play for a reason.

Likewise, in the theatre of life, the path to genius is laden with obstacles challenging what we already know and accept as possible, while inviting us to move through our limited thinking to explore our untapped potential. The sense of imbalance and loss of control while exploring the unknown can be confronting and uncomfortable. Initially, we feel like Bambi walking on ice for the first time, legs flailing and sliding in every direction as we awkwardly acclimate to our new environment and relationship with balance.

Allow yourself to be awkwardly … awesome. Get curious about what being awesome looks and feels like for you. You can count on this being an awkward exploration at first because you’ll be navigating unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory. But what the heck, the worst that can happen is you discover something new about yourself and have Divine encounters along the way. The best that can happen is you start living your life with a “How good can I stand it?” attitude. Now that’s pretty awesome.

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