In an authentic encounter with your BIG IMPOSSIBLE GOAL you will find yourself in the FIRE.

WE ARE IN THE FIRE whenever we challenge ourselves to have agency around our need to he heard, to change, to be appreciated, to connect and be safe.  In the FIRE is where we encounter shame, anger, rage and the nagging sense that we do not belong. It is in the FIRE that we evolve new capacities to hold with grace and compassion the dilemmas of being human.

The following elemental Journey is offered to support us, as we take BOLD MOVES that align with our B.I.G. Note that it is offered as a practice, so it can be repeated. It uses BLOOM’s P.L.A.Y.Y. framework to guide us, as we encounter the FIRE.

THE INTENTION

As you move through this process do so with the following intention

 “Today may I hold my life with grace, even as I am being held.”

THE JOURNEY

First….

IDENTIFY A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU WOULD SAY YOU ARE IN THE FIRE. ALTERNATIVELY MAKE A BOLD MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF Y...

 If anyone needs to see what a BIG IM’POSSIBLE GOAL is, RUN and go see Beyoncé’s movie “Renaissance.”

She is the Muhammad Ali of our time. 

Yet she is all of us.

Beyoncé is a study in authentic POWER owned in Black skin. Throughout this movie she tells us clearly: “MY POWER YOU WILL  NEVER TAKE.”

Power is a word that we have a poor relationship with. Because much of what we call power is not authentic power. It is the ego trying to survive. 

True POWER cannot be given, taken or destroyed. And Beyoncé knows this. This is the kind of POWER that the Queen has stepped into, not just for herself but for us all.

To hear her tell it, it has been a journey. And in this movie she has opened HER bible and read the script out loud in a way that only a few artists, business people, and leaders have done. 

Here are some of my take-aways.

REINVENTION

Her talk  about her reinventing herself, touched me deeply. It caused me to reflect on where I am coming from as a young Jamaican boy child...