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The following lyric from A Bit of Both by Allen Stone rang extra true for me following a session with a client earlier this week:

True? Or, true? 🤔

I mean, how often do we expect something to turn out a certain way only to find it unfold differently? Taking us down a road we neither saw nor anticipated? 😶

Then, when it happens, how do we respond? Are we able to go with the flow and trust the process? Or, do we dig our heels in and fight for what we think 'should be the right way'?

Here's (I hope) a helpful illustration:

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I would like to suggest that this concept applies to almost anything in life, not just success. But, that it illustrates the pursuit of any goal or dream.

As well as our endeavors to build something better - for our families, our communities, our nation and our world.

Consider this: if we subscribe to an either/or, this/that, 'it must go in a straight line' way of thinking, we miss out on the nuance of possibility that exists in the realm of looking at things from a perspective of both/and.

And then, we tend to get stuck.

We put on the brakes and freeze because the path we were expecting to walk turned into a winding road with no known GPS coordinates and a lot of potholes.

But, what if, instead, we could start to see things like Allen says as, 'a little bit of both at the same time'?

What if we could retrain our brains to see things more and more as a both/and and less and less as an either/or?

Understanding that the magic is found in the many-optioned messy middle. 💥

How would that change our engagement with our goals?

And, our pursuit of our dreams?

Might be worth considering, yes?

And, pursuing.

And hey, I'm here to support you should you decide to start that pursuit. 😊

Your Coach,

Kari