Life and business can feel like a series of high wire trapeze swings. Imagine yourself either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments at a time hurtling through space in between the trapeze bars. Most of the time we are tightly hanging on to our trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. It carries you along at a certain steady rate of swing and you have the feeling that you’re in control of your life. You know most of the right questions and even some of the right answers.
You get comfortable with your ‘normal’ Quadrant configuration as you justify your actions of playing in your own preferred ‘comfort zone’.
But, every now and again as you’re merrily (or not so merrily) swinging along, you look out ahead into the distance, and what do you see? You see another trapeze bar swinging towards you. Another opportunity – may be a shift in your relationship, a change in your business structure or a new direction in your health regime.
This new trapeze bar is empty and you know that this bar is for you. It is your next step, of growth, of aliveness coming to get you. In your heart of hearts you know that for you to grow, you must release your grip on this present and well-known bar to move on to the new one.
You know that you will have to trust your Quadrant 4. You know that It will involve risking your present position and taking a leap of faith.
Your innermost self knows that you can carry the next step out. Maybe you can hear it calling you even as you are reading this.
Each time it happens you hope that you won’t have to grab the new one. Oh, why cant I just stay the same you may say. But you also know that you are either growing or you are dying and the innate driver within tells you that growth is what you are here for.
No matter how many times you do it, each time, you are filled with apprehension. And that’s OK. That fear of the unknown is all encompassing. Each time you are afraid that you will miss, that you will be consumed by the chasm that exists between the bars. But you do it anyway because somehow, to keep holding on to that old bar is no longer on the list of alternatives.
The Quadrant 3 part wants you to be safe and secure and it hates the change that your Quadrant 4 is offering but you do let go – you trust.
And so for what seems like an eternity you soar across the dark void of “the past gone, the future is not yet here.” It’s called transformation. You have come to believe that it is the only place where real change occurs. I mean real change, not the pseudo-change that only lasts until the next time your old buttons get pushed.
Let yourself leave the familiar behind. Trust that you still have all the resources you need and that you can easily and elegantly engage in a continual expansion of your unique self in a constantly changing world.
Feel free to release the ‘trapeze bar’ that you are currently holding and grab the next one with your name on it.
