Elusive Courage
and the infinity loop of sameness

That’s it. That’s the fractional equation. On the top is Courage. On the bottom, is the drudgery of getting what you always get: sameness.

And do you remember 8th grade? They taught us to divide the bottom of the equation into the top. Ultimately, the only way to solve the equation is to have the courage to do something different. Choosing you is different. Going against the grain is different. Being outspoken in a quiet room is different. And that folks, is about all that I math.

It’s important to note: the courage to be different DOES NOT feel comfortable. Are you ready to give that up? Your precious comfort? But what is comfort anyway? More sameness. More streaming Netflix instead of writing your own story. More idol worship of your favorite musicians, but never penning your song. More numbing in the myriad of ways that we choose to numb and more of what you’ve always gotten.

I had a wild client a while back. They were convinced that they were an artist of extraordinary measure, they just hadn’t put pen to paper yet. I was a bit mystified, but, the gist seemed familiar to me. They were a fellow intuitive. They had a sense of their destiny, they knew the greatness of the story that could unfold for them. Yet they hadn’t dared take a leap. They were stuck between the rocks of Potential & Ego.

See, they wanted a guarantee, and they had already developed a Picasso-sized ego that prevented their momentum. The guarantee they wanted was their assured success. They wanted receipts of wild success before the journey even began. And while I did see talent and sparkling promise – I could also see their rigidity, inability to allow for vulnerability and soul-sucking pride. All of which would keep them firmly where they were.

So how about you? Are you stuck in a circling flight pattern of sameness? Can I encourage you to say fuck all to your demons and do it (whatever ‘it’ is for you) anyway? I hope so. I am living proof that it gets wildly & wonderfully better.