potential and values
Does unrealized potential overwhelm or inspire you?
Years ago, when I was getting some bad news, I sat with my mentor, psychologist, and now friend identifying what my top values and priorities where.
❤️Values keep up us steady when the world is reeling around us.
❤️Values direct us when we are looking for what the future holds.
❤️Values give us a reason - our why and purpose.
At the time I was being passed over for a promotion (thank Goddess I was) because being the head of department would have filled my wallet but bankrupted me from time I would have invested in my art, in healing my body, and in developing spiritually. My desire for this position it let me know my values:
❤️I love teaching. It’s incredible to see what happens when unrealized potential meets skill development and opportunity (hello to how I structure my courses ). There is nothing like encouraging others and being part of their growth and eventual success. I love being challenged and inspired by the potential in each person I meet and serve. I love teaching.
What ways do you continue to circle certain opportunities and in what ways do those show you something you love?
I still remember my advisors smile when we were discussing my love for teaching: “So,” she said “altruistic joy is your greatest value”. As most things go when you are working with Dr. Rebecca Martin - when I looked at my life - altruistic joy has and continues to be one of the single biggest motivators for me. I seek and receive it in so many parts of my life.
❤️The second primal value for me, simply put is self-exploration. I am driven by the continual uncovering, knowing, and expressing of the self. From its movements in dance, to its spiritual depths, to its artistic expressions - I love everything self-expression, self-development, self-discovery and I love hearing other’s express themselves too. There is so much variety and depth in who we are.
Do you know your motivating forces? Those are two of mine- self-discovery and altruism. Maybe yours are service or wisdom or organization or leadership or healing?
And as I sat with Dr. Martin that day, I began recognizing the voices that call from within: I began understanding and questioning how to realize these potentials, purposes, and motivations in my life. I also felt the call and pressure of unrealized potential arising. What to do with all these new ideas flowing to me? How to bring things into reality? How to take guided risks? How to be brave enough to pursue my true desires? It was still 5 years before I felt safe to leave academia and to start asking how I could teach, encourage, and explore on my own terms and in way that serves others.
If you are reading this, or if you are on my mailing list you’ve been witnessing a very large part of my journey into the unrealized potentiality. You are witnessing my values becoming and transforming into experiences: podcast episodes, emails, healing practices, meditations, blog posts, coaching, group courses, artwork, dancing, videos, and the occasional remodel projects. Thank you for being here!
Recently I’ve been feeling like things are coming together and I’ve also been feeling called to share more, to share altruistic joy, and to help others craft better learning environments.
✨I believe that teaching and taking courses, affirms our faith in a better future and starts to create a better, wiser world.
✨I believe that teaching creates opportunities and stimulates the growth we crave.
✨I believe that putting together courses and sharing what each of us has learned is a radical, beautiful, and generous act that takes us even deeper into who we are as individuals and who we can be collectively.
In other words, I believe in sharing authentically and in doing good in the world.
Maybe you believe something like this too? Maybe your a course developer and would like some help or healing with the teaching element of it? (click here to read more)
I’d love to hear about your journey and values unfolding. Sending you so much love, joy, and play on your sacred adventure.
