This client
made excellent progress over her three sessions. In fact between her initial
phone call to me and her first appointment, she had already experimented with
speaking up in a meeting. She was so surprised that she could do it and at how
well she was received!
After
experiencing the fulfilment of being more involved and recognised, she said she
wished she had come to see me years ago. I replied, “That may have been good
but you also may not have been ready to make the small but necessary changes in
yourself. We all grow when the timing is right.”
A couple of
days ago a 20 year old, contemplating a choice between continuing their current
studies or changing institutions, told me “staying where I am is safe, but I
am feeling it is time for another big jump.” A lot of young people are more
attuned than we perhaps were. They are ready to take brave leaps if we are
supportive or simply get out of their way.
Have you
experienced tackling a project where nothing seems to go right, no matter how
hard you try? And perhaps you end up leaving it. Sometime later you pick it up
and try again – and it all falls into place, almost effortlessly.
There are
other times when the little clues tell you to do something but it feels scary
and we argue ourselves out of it. If the plant doesn’t flower when the Spring
conditions are just right, it may have to wait a full year to have another
chance. Keep yourself open and alert to the opportunities and clues that come
your way – people you meet, things you read, a word you hear. And when you feel
that urge, be brave and go with it.
If we listen
to our wisdom, whilst being open to opportunities, everything will happen, when
it should – not too soon and not too late.
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