Playing Our Way to Transformation
It’s time to reclaim WOO. The World Outside Ordinary holds what we don’t yet see and the future we long for.
For too long, WOO has gotten a bad rap. It has been dismissed as something frivolous, irrational, or reserved for people who’ve lost touch with reality.
Yikes! We need WOO or the sane among us will be going down a rabbit hole of despair. WOO is the doorway to a much more expansive reality, one that’s available right here, right now, in the midst of our ordinary lives.
We hear a great deal these days about expanded consciousness, awakening, and transformation. Much of it is fascinating. And much of it remains theoretical, intellectual, something to study, discuss, or aspire to.
But what if the doorway is much closer than we think?
Innovation comes from the mind.
Creativity comes from the soul.
Transformation comes from the Mystery.
And I’m discovering that the Mystery appreciates a curious, playful approach.
Is Your Story — Told or Untold — Holding You Back from a New Story?
I’m writing to you today in service of better stories — yours, mine, and the ones we’re here to co-create. After all, the subtitle of my book Transformational Speaking is: If you want to change the world, tell a better story.
Oh, the stories we tell!
- There’s the “signature story” we tell from the platform that defines us (and can become the very thing that holds us back.)
- There are the stories we hold in silence and are afraid to speak. They need to be told — not to an audience, but to someone who can truly hear us — so we can heal and move forward.
- And then there’s the new story, beckoning us to the possibility that awaits.
Recently I heard from two clients — both from 2015 — whose stories are changing. Our renewed connections reminded me of the deep privilege it is to witness new stories as they begin to take form and how agonizing that process can be. We’re attached! These stories — and the identities they’ve shaped — have often carried us to the pinnacle of success. So why must they change just when we think we’ve arrived?! (And really, how could we ever “arrive” when life itself is in constant motion?)
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