What to do with burgeoning awareness

So it may look something like this...

You're planning - for weeks - a gathering of family or friends, what have you. When you get a suspicion that someone, central to the event, is not totally in. They may hem and haw, or they may show no outward sign of cold feet. What matters most is this suspicion you've got. This little nag that diminishes your anticipation and excitement.

Now most of us brush this off. We don't slow ourselves enough to look at this awareness. After all, the suspicion runs counter to what we want - which is for this event to go off without a hitch.

And there's the rub, there's a whole lotta stuff we don't want to know. Yet awareness requires us to slow down, to know what we know and to look at it.

So, time marches on and we get to our lovely event and the bottom falls out. That central person does the thing you suspected they'd do, they bailed and damnit, you're pissed.

Now if you'd engaged your awareness, and chosen to know what you know, this would look and feel a bit different. You'd be a lot less pissed. In fact, you’d likely chuckle - a knowing laugh - having proven to yourself how very powerful you are.

Could you have taken the opportunity to change the outcome? Can you change other people? I think not and this is the subject of a whole other newsletter. But, heck, changing the outcome isn’t the point.

The greatest point may be...you don't actually have to do anything with expanded awareness. You can take action if you like – to try to change the outcome. But maybe, your awareness is the point in and of itself. Simply choosing to know what you know: that the person you were counting on could not be counted on, brings a measure of relief.

So when this scenario pops up in your life, and you get that suspicion, know that you have choices. Ask yourself:

What can I do with this?

If you get stuck, let me know how I can help.