For the past twenty years I have been an entrepreneur. I thrive on starting something from nothing and watching it grow. I started my very first business at the age of 28 and four years later sold it to the second largest food company in the world. Through the years and as a Life Coach for women, I have closely witnessed within myself and many others how we can take a great idea, infuse it with good intentions and then just watch it sit there and do nothing. Or worse, deflate miserably like a child’s cherished balloon.
Just this week the three of us, a dear friend of mine, a professional woman and I were playing marimbas together when a wonderfully juicy idea arose. What would happen if marimbas where brought into the boardroom? What if the “village music of Zimbabwe” infiltrated the minds of executives for one day? “Marimba and Thinking Out of the Box,” we serendipitously named it. If you’ve never had the joy of being around the music of marimbas, they have an uncanny way of getting you out of your linear mind, forcing you to think, be and move in ways that the western mind can’t really wrap their brains around. Yet the music is naturally vibrant and joyful and relatively easy for beginners to pick up in 2-hour class.
I’m giving you this back story to illustrate how great ideas can die on the vine very simply. I’ll show you how this one did in one comment. After attempting several times to get together to explore the possibilities of this idea, one of the women said, “If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen.”
I am sure you’ve heard this before. I’m sure you’ve even said it. I have. This statement is one of those phrases we like to hide behind. It allows us to shrink. To be stuck. To not take responsibility. It takes us off the hook. “Oh, I guess it wasn’t meant to be.” Great idea dead in the water.
For the next few weeks, I will be exploring with you the Art of Manifesting. What stands in the way. What keeps us stuck. We’ll meet the Saboteur and her sneaky ways. We’ll also meet the Big you. The one that Knows. We’ll learn how to keep her alive and well and living her dreams.
And all the while, I want to hear from you.. Your thoughts. Your questions. Your realizations. We’re co-creating here at Women With Wings. Join in on the ride. It’s sure to be bumpy - and beautiful.
– Carolyn
