PLANNING AS PLAY ~ The Practice of Presence

This is the second in a series of posts intended to support members who have come out as B.I.G. PEOPLE by declaring a B.I.G. 

These posts are at Level 2 practices and above. 

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THE DILEMMA

Now that you have a B.I.G. is it necessary to have a plan? Isn't a B.I.G. a “self-fulfilling goal,” so why do I have to make a plan? Furthermore, to what extent do I need a plan, if things never go according to plan?

These are some of the questions I have asked myself as I have engaged my B.I.G.

Perhaps you have too?

Here are some observations I have made…

YOUR B.I.G. IS PROJECT THAT’S HAPPENING NOW

Essentially your B.I.G. is a project. Imagine that it is a PROJECTION – that is coming through you NOW. 

A B.I.G. is born of the desire to experience the essences our goals symbolize NOW, not just tomorrow.  Essences like JOY, SUFFICIENCY ORDER, FLOW, VITALITY, ALIVENESS… It is the tendency of these desires to manifest now. They know not...

How have you been organizing your day? 

This week I have been organizing myself around three focusing questions that capture my imagination. I am noticing that as I attempt to answer them, they help me to organize my day and get to things on my “to do list” with less effort. 

Each thing I do is crafted as an answer to the question that’s on my mind. My answers come in the form of content — a blog post or IG reel, as an action that organizes a project, as a communication with a collaborator. 

It seems we are fueled by questions.

Here is what two thinkers have said about questions:

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” 

~ Indira Gandhi.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

~ Albert Einstein,

What questions are you curious about? 

What do you want to remember or know? 

What naturally causes you to dream? 

What question immediately opens your heart? 

What mystery are you feeling your way into?

Have you ever wondered, given the current state of things, how will we work in the future, and what are we learning now?

At BLOOM our focus on the future of work presages the current crisis of work, diagnosed in a recent New York Times Magazine article on The Future of Work,  as “The Age of Anti-Ambition.”

There is argued that current chaos in the workplace has roots that predate the dislocation of the working environment caused by the COVID Pandemic. 

We believe that at the heart of this upheaval are important questions, now being asked with greater urgency. 

• How do I find / create purposeful and rewarding work?
• How do I keep myself well, as I work and balance the other areas of my life? 
• How are we to all work together more productively and equitably? 

Whether you are a creative, executive or an entrepreneur these questions are at the heart of our journey through the land of work.

And rightly so.

How we work matters to our sense of wellbeing. 

These questions  out-pictu...