Shift Time

It's Shift Time. For me and for you. 2012 is coming to an end, and while the world is unlikely to blow up on December 21^st, I am convinced of this: Look and you shall find a profound shift happening. 

I've done what I can to be polite and professional in this Innovation on my Mind blog of 4 years and 170 articles, so allow me to be a bit more direct: How about giving your inner-Skeptic a well-deserved rest on this one? Why not take this opportunity--as conversation about a global shift abounds--to give your old dream of love and purpose at least a walk around the block. That means shutting off the need to prove that nothing is changing or that believers are idiots. That humans suck or you suck or I suck and there is no Shift.  Tune out your monkey mind and tune in to this intuitive truth we share--that it is indeed time to shift. We need to shift, as a country, as a culture, as a planet and as individuals. 

It's definitely been a shifting year for me. As I've blogged about these past months, I've lost my father, been involved in new and growing projects, taken risks in leadership, in travel, in trying to stand up for and act in alignment with my values.  I continue to see how many blocks, bad habits and fears I have; how I am challenged by feeling isolated and unsupported, and by the way others react or often don't react to what I'm trying to do; and how much I let other people take my power away.

So to me and to you I ask these two Shifty questions:
1. When will you stop the incessant distraction-seeking and take some time to listen to your own inner wisdom? 
2. When will you stop letting other people take your power away and start showing up in the world more fully awake--as the creative, empowered source of ideas, action and influence that you know you can be?

Yes, let's use this end-of-2012 opportunity to actually wake the fuck up.  

"To be nobody but yourself ­—

in a world which is doing its best,

day and night,

to make you everybody else ­—

means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight;

and never stop fighting."                           --e.e. cummings