Deeper Lines.

Thanks to those of you who shared your quotes after last week’s deep lines. I particularly liked one by my good (and wise author) friend, Patrick. He quoted Kamille Thomas who said, “ you cannot heal what you hide. Find hope, practice gratitude and create a life you want to live in”. I liked that last part, create a life you want to live in. Living a miserable life is like renting a house you don’t like and spending all your days in it. Look for the house (life) that you want to live in and if you cannot find one then build one that suits you. One that brings out the best version of yourself. At least try. You owe it to yourself and us too.

I have grown to anticipate endings. I now look forward to them. Initially, I was apprehensive when the signs appeared that it was the beginning of an end. The cluelessness was paralyzing. After having spent a good chunk of my 40s ending things and subsequently moving to the neutral zone, these lines from William Bridges’ book – Transitions, consoled me in my place of nothingness. He says

To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now;

To start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now;

And to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now.

Even though it sounds backwards, endings always come first.

Is there something you need to end at this year’s end? Stop stalling and do it because it may be the beginning of a new more exciting thing and year too. But for the new season to manifest we first have to let go. That is the first task.

This next quote has the definition of ikigai somewhere in there or a version of it. This whole year I have been working on identifying what I am good at, refining it and looking for opportunities (problems) that the combination of me will solve. And while at it getting paid for the solution I bring to the problem.  I even have it as graffiti on my office wall just for it to stick in my mind. I know I’ve probably mutilated the ikigai definition here but I hope you get the point hehe.

In halftime, we call it the sweet spot. Where our core (who we are), capacity (what we have) and context (the role we will play) converge. Folks, may 2023 bring you clarity on what you are good at. May you align your gifts to the perfect problem around you and solve it with all you’ve got because you are uniquely wired to sort that issue better than any of us. Two things are bound to be the outcome. You will enjoy helping people get over their hurdles and money will start appearing as a result. Unless of course, you make it clear that yours is fully charity, and that’s ok too. One day ata mimi nitafika hapo. Once my baby sharks are out of my nest.

Share more of your deep lines folks. you just might be giving someone their best Christmas gift ever by unlocking something in them. Plus if we dint share then it ceases to be a deep line because the power of our revelations impacts when it is unleashed (spoken).