Dear One,

As the next Cycle of the BLOOM Intensive approaches, you might be wondering "where do I want to focus my attention." The intention of this post is to help us to each identify our next level of challenge, becoming and accomplishment as our B.I.G.s expand.

It is an exploration of the five stages of engagement with a BIG IMPOSSIBLE GOAL.

Let me know what rings true for you.

Olubode

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A B.I.G. evolves through 5 stages that mirror the evolution of the human mind. 

What level are you one? You might me in a few places at this time? 

Where are you finding yourself? What is your next level?

LEVEL I:  MINERAL ~ THE RATIONAL MIND

ALIGN

This first mind that aligns us with purpose has to be honored.  At this stage one uses the rational mind to figure things out, to piece together an understanding of why, when, who, what and where one is.  For us at BLOOM The FINDING YOUR B.I.G. Journey is the first step. It is a honoring of the rational...

This is the third 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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In my last post I invited you to think of PLANNING as PLAYY. You were invited to do so regularly and consistently – employing your ability to remember, to be curious, to imagine, to take new perspectives and exercise your intuition.  

In this post, I will deepen this invitation by sharing with you a tool that helps you to MAP your B.I.G. or any project as it unfolds. It's a tool that you can use to increase your awareness of where things with your project stand now. 

It’s a simple checklist that you might use to answer the question, “How is your B.I.G. coming along.”

This can easily be done by asking yourself a series of questions.

Imagine that what we call a project is not really a moving projection. That  we are like a projector or a camera, that...

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...

   This is the first in a series of posts intended to support members who have come out as B.I.G., by declaring a B.I.G. These posts are at Level 2 and above.

THE DIGNITY OF ASPIRATIONS

First I want you to know that it is okay to aspire. One dictionary defines aspires as “…to direct one’s hope and ambitions to achieving (experiencing) something.”

Too often we are shamed by others out of our aspirations. You aspirations can be threatening to others, who see you as they see themselves—with self-imposed limits. 

I have come to see that to aspire is to be human, and it is also very divine. 

So when we pause to align our human aspirations with our memory of who we really are as unique expressions of ONE Spiritual being, the result is what we at BLOOM call at B.I.G. 

In the realm of our human experience B.I.G. can be thought to mean: “Big Impossible Goal”—a goal that breaches or threatens our human...