I used to think it was heart-shaped.

I loved that idea.

And then I thought maybe square.

Although, when I looked in the mirror & at some photos it seemed kind of round, and I heard a neighbor of ours told my mom our family had cookie shaped heads 🍪.

Some girl in High School snarkily compared my bone structure to an 👽💀 on Facebook…

Then a cousin of mine who sat on the left of me at his mother’s wedding reception told me my face looked flat. So now I’m thinking, ok round like the moon? 🌚

It wasn’t until recently that I began to notice, realize, and embrace that I actually have a diamond shaped face 💎, one of the most rare kinds - multidimensional & multifaceted, intricately angular, and ethereal in all its splendor.

Like Elizabeth Taylor, who also happened to have violet eyes.

Super rare, super dope.

And I loved everything about that.

And then there’s the case of the Diamond-shaped vortex woven throughout my Solar Return Chart from 2021. Cyclical Aspects & Transits indicating the year’s forecasted journey & mission

There’s also this year’s activation of a natal placement called a Yod that Marla Tseng, an amazing Astrologer I met in the Holisticism Hub who gave me my first Astro reading ever & told me I had & said it would begin to unfold for me around May 22’ - a ‘‘V’ shaped aspect in my chart which essentially represented taking my life purpose, path and work seriously. Healing Ancestral Wounds & Breaking Curses & Patterns. A desire & a devotion to doing so. Turning it into a work of art. A real Masterpiece.

Plus I have my Sun in that 8th Gene Key 🧬🔑 of Exquisiteness - Style - Mediocrity going on - shining like a rare jewel, being tapped into the source of creation itself (, my Sun Placement & ruler of the 3h/House Profection Year I just came out of on the 19th). + My Life’s Work (Sun-Venus-Mars placements) in my Pearl Sequence - GK 29 🧬🔑 Devotion - Commitment - Half-Heartedness (29=11, the number of mastery)

All boiling down to tapping into & unleashing my Creative Genius and healing the Inner Child alongside wounds to my Worth. Experimenting with living by Design. Retraining and Reprogramming my Mind for Success, Sovereignty, and Satisfaction - my Signature as a Generator, and one of the “S’s in SEA SAW, the lens of my editorial publication.

So why diamonds?

Well, I mean, afterall…

**Diamonds are a girl’s best friend** as told by the late, great, iconic *Marilyn Monroe*

They’re tough, stunning, radiant, lit from within, did I say tough I meant resilient af, dynamic & multifaceted, precious & rare and beautiful, worthy of attention and adoration

They're Brilliant.

Really rare breeds. Divine Creations of Mother Nature

Symbols of classic beauty, elegance, refinement, investment, love, and sensuality.

And I believe in something I coined/downloaded called The Brillianaire Mission ✨, which is a double destiny to uplift/elevate humanity & the world, simply by living your best life.

Simple? Yes.

Easy? It can be.

I’ve now entered my 4H Profection Year in Virgo, the archetype of service to the Collective, represented and ruled by Mercury (who, I mention again, is exalted in Virgo), signifying what I’m here to teach & communicate

And so, without further ado, from my Brilliant Mind to Yours, I present to you one of the many facets to my Masterpiece,…

A streamlined solution for Cultivating a life around what is beautiful, true, uniquely you, valuable, meaningful, good & fun

A Simple framework for turning your life’s work into a work of art through innovation, devotion, creation, mastery of talents & versatility

An Activation of the possibilities available to you when you make Art In The Wild.

There are 13 tenets to The Brilliance Blueprint 💎

Strategy
Style
RHYTHM + Flow
Originality
Resonance, Resilience, Refinement + Rest
Timeliness & Timelessness
Simplicity
Wholeheartedness
Serious Fun
Creative Thriving
Resourcefulness
Innovation of/in Sacred Work
Experimentation

13 qualities interwoven within one another - let’s call them uncanny connections 🤪

Uncanny bc artists /geniuses are just simply following a thread, making the next wisest/most feasible connection & association while everyone else looks in awe wondering, “how did they do that?” But it just works

Through present moment living, divine creation, genius, logic, flow, and thensome…

World Class Performance Meets Everyday Bliss - & it’s Sheer Perfection

{Prepare for copious amounts of quotes from none other than the genius himself, Mr. Einstein…}

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous
- Albert Einstein

Reminds me of the concept of becoming Autotelic - a psychology, activity, process, person or personality, or work having an end or purpose in & of itself…

And the process of Individuation:

(1)the development of the individual from the universal
(2): the determination of the individual in the general
b: the process by which individuals in society become differentiated from one another
c: psychology : the process in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung by which the self is formed by integrating elements of the conscious and unconscious mind
- Merriam Webster

Going with the flow of life, not the crowd, not having a care for societal expectations & standards - finding your own flow & taking up space, owning it as it is your birthright

👌🏽 The Strategy: INNOVATION & Experimentation

They say insanity is when you keep doing the same thing thinking that you’re gonna get a different ending.

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them
- Albert Einstein

Strategy means Being Intentional. And getting the results you want, moving in alignment with your highest good

Doing something/thinking differently & doing different things
(13 tenets, tapping into the energy of the goddess) - willingness to be different & be divine, to step fully into your power & rule your life, express your creativity & fuel/indulge your desires, own your authority as a sovereign, creatively affluent, free, integrated, and independent creator, organized chaos (GK 3 🧬 🔑)

The thing about that is Genius often looks like Madness. The key to innovation (is not rebellion - boring, all rebels do is the opposite of what’s expected of them, which is still in its essence being controlled by society’s whims/societal standards & ideas. Innovators don’t waste precious time, energy & attention on going against the grain just for the sake of it - we see the world as we envision it & align our actions to match that like it’s our birthright bc it is…)

**Neuroticism**, as told by Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers, *via* @theJessicaDore of *Offerings*

Geniuses abhor consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
- Albert Einstein

I’m so happy I took the chance to binge watch the Divergent trilogy over the course of 3 days during my Birthday Weekend turned Week & a half (Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant)

And although she vexed me to no end at certain points, the main character Tris is a prime example of this, and of putting your 💖 in it/behind everything you do - Put your ass where your heart wants to be..

LOSE YOURSELF IN THE MOMENT - the definition of who you are might/could be holding you back from getting what you want. Have an identity crisis or two - confusion comes before clarity ⛈️🌈

Be in the lab cooking up somethin revolutionary while the world is crashing down around you

SIMPLICITY, REFINEMENT, TAILORING 🪡"

The Definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple
- Albert Einstein

As the saying goes, if you can’t explain something simply, you probably don’t know it well enough..

Knowing how to ask the right questions to get the right answers, leaning into the experience showing up for you in the present. Resting in the knowing of the unknown

(another beautiful paradox/dichotomy)

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering
- Albert Einstein

🐗/🐻 The BEAST OF BRILLIANCE - The 13 Tenets make up 4 Pillars 🧫

I told you before in Awakening Brilliance, we’d soon be discussing a Creature I’ve come to know as The BEAST Of Brilliance. Well, let’s have at it, shall we…

This fiiine species of a Creature is cut from a different texture, made from/up/of

**🧪 Equal parts Beauty ✧ Brains ✧ Bliss ✧ Brawn ✧ 🧪**

Just like Diamonds themselves, this Beast is all Cosmic Matter ☄️⚡✨ - being a Child of God/the Cosmos 👼🏽, A student & practitioner of Alchemy 🌑🌙🌕 - the relationship between Consciousness & Matter (as above, so below, correspondence)

🐆 It’s got The EYE OF THE TIGER (2022 Chinese Zodiac*), The LION OF JUDAH (a lion doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep 🐑; Regalty, King/Queen/Monarch Shit* 👑.

- I’m The Best, Nicki Minaj 🎶 (commentary by moi*)

One thing about em, they ain’t BASIC..

✧ BRAINS 🧠

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination
- Albert Einstein

THE BRILLIANT MIND can operate in both spheres, fire on all cylinders, seamlessly moving between the realms of the DM & DF, experiencing something & holding a concept of it in the mind’s eye without identifying with it, remains connected to & centered in the Source of all Creation & plays in the realm of Neurodivergence/diversity

The Universal Mind - All is Knowing, the all knowing omnipotent & omnipresent creative force; Infinite Intelligence - we are connected to it & through It, what I like to call the Cloud Brain ☁️🧠☁️

The 13 tenets & the Superpowers of NEURODIVERGENCE ⚡ -

Duality & Dichotomy & Psychosis, OH MY! - Losing Your Mind

left & right, black & white, hot & cold, up & down, this or that, masculine & feminine

Harmonizing Duality & Bipolarity - the beauty of MANIA & DEPRESSION & the feminine quality/energy that naturally embodies the dynamic due to its cyclical nature

Spirit sent me a dream one night in May, in Mental Health Awareness Month of all the seasons because They’re funny like that, of me on/as two pendulums swinging in opposite ends of the poles & directions. One version of me was dressed in all black. The other in all white. Both perfectly gliding high in the sky to the ends of the world (spectrum, axis) in unison & in sympatico. I woke up laughing. This was after I found myself feeling almost too seen in a Twitter thread on what it’s really like to be Bipolar. 🧵

Kemi Marie @kemimarie

ya so if u ask me what’s it like being bipolar i’m not going to tell you some story about me changing emotions. i’m going to tell you about how one person entering my life gave me such manic euphoria that it threw me off all my schedules & led to guess what? a depressive episode

I’m so grateful to artists & spiritualists, soul journeyers like Kemi, who, just by being vulnerable enough to share their story, helped me to feel seen, heard, and held 🙏🏽

I accepted this unveiled truth about myself so easily and swiftly, I remember being disturbed by hearing that one of the symptoms of classic Manic episodes of Bipolar “Disorder” that leads the medical field classifying the condition as a “problem” in one’s pattern of thinking is having a feeling of being on a mission from God, claiming to have a divine purpose or grandiose outlook.

The audacity. The unmitigated gall.

Society will have us to believe that Mania is a “BAD” thing - watch out for those egomaniacs, they caution…

- who else would I be on a mission for, if not my Creator?? What am I tapped into if not the Divine source of All Creation Itself? What tf would I have come here for if not to do it big & do it well & go all the way?

This brings me to The Countdown Theory - an idea I’ve been downloading for some time now on a practice of mastery that seeks to re-member, reprogram, and retrain the mind by descending the flow of mental energy into the Subconscious to reach a state of Oneness & Wholeness from within, 0 - the cosmic womb, O for Origin (and then bring that treasure back out into the world with you)

Coronavirus and Self-Individuation — Part One | by Jonathan Kendall | The (Tech)nically Appropriate Philosopher | Medium

Because, remember, the Mind is a terrible Master, and a fantastic Servant. And it’s an even better friend, and doesn’t have to be the enemy.

If your mind has some ADHD-like tendencies & qualities, you may regularly experience a different sense of time, like losing track of it or being hyper aware of its passing. You may have a thing for procrastinating (it me), or sometimes overconfidently overestimate how much you can get done in a set period of time (it also me) . Whether it sneaks up on you or disappears, you have the superpower to dibble & dabble in tasks while achieving supreme flow in each one and building an unstoppable momentum that gets shit done while having fun if harnessed properly…

“Time Optimism” is a concept you may want to get familiar with, a la falling down the rabbit hole 🕳🐇 that is this Twitter thread 🧵& conversation from Tash (Supernova Momma), a delightfully neurodivergent Certified Positive Discipline Educator with a neurodiverse family that recently, thankfully, fell into my orbit 🪐 - ft some of my fave tweets that encapsulate this energy beautifully 🧶

Supernova Momma (She/Her) @SupernovaMomma

Agreed. Someone used Time Optimism on my thread and I thought it quite brilliant

Fem Queen Never Ratioed Again @darklibraria

We should have a word for the concept of “time blindness” that doesn’t use an unrelated disability as a metaphor

Ren (Becki) Short - they/them @EnbyCreative

@teetengee @darklibraria Time slip sounds like I've temporarily transported to another dimension, which I feel is very apt.

rrrrrrat (they/he) 🏳️‍⚧️ @rratpakTV

@darklibraria i say i have "no concept of time" :-) no/poor time perception is a good one too i think

Make new connections in your brain -

This is what the art of neuroplasticity is all about, the ability to play w diff POVs, seeing things differently, the brilliance of disordered thinking is perspective - wholelistic

Staying open to seeing things differently, to detaching your self worth to external things & seeing the common thread & core essence of an idea

(Jessica Dore is great at this when it comes to linking & weaving archetypal exploration, signs and symbols into storytelling)

You must refuse to be boxed in, labeled and written off or made to conform. You must tell your own story the way it ought to be told.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1903

This is what I mean when I say live ‘uncompromisingly well’. No compromise is a good one.

The future isn’t only diverse, it’s divergent.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them
- Albert Einstein

GET WIISE -

By finding

WHOLENESS

INTEGRATION

INDIVIDUATION

SATISFACTION

EXPRESSION

Risking it all, betting it all on you, banking on The Universe to catch/meet/one-up you/up the stakes & the ante 🏦🎰✨💫

grow up, be forever young
- me

Earned WISDOM = KNOWLEDGE + EXPERIENCE 💫💡🧠: Embodied Information (knowledge & ideas that live in the fibers of the body/sorta like muscle memory), inner knowing with the ability to apply said knowledge to real life situations (Integration)

✧ BEAUTY 💋 -

I like to say that Beauty is a Visual or Sensual expression of Love

I also love this write up on Aesthetics (The first ‘A’ in SEA SAW) & Personal Style from CHANI Nicholas:

Intentional Adormnet
Ecstatic Embodiment
Artful Expression

There’s a beauty in not knowing, in imagining & believing & feeling, inner peace, surrender & separation from the past so you can truly create the new, walking into it with blind faith, an acceptance of confusion at the start/at times (the paradox of transformation - embracing confusion creates clarity), the HEALING POWER OF (being) ‘DELUSIONAL' (believing things can & will work out for the best, irregardless of how they may appear)

“Beauty is one of life’s basic pleasures. We want to keep near us, feel more sympathy and compassion for, and are elevated and enriched by what is beautiful.”
“Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires.”
“Humans, like flowers and animals, inhabit a form that is both functional and aesthetic.”
“beauty is a universal part of human experience, and that it provokes pleasure, rivets attention, and impels actions that help ensure the survival of our genes. Our extreme sensitivity to beauty is hard-wired, that is, governed by circuits in the brain shaped by natural selection. We love to look at smooth skin, thick shiny hair, curved waists, and symmetrical bodies because in the course of evolution the people who noticed these signals and desired their possessors had more reproductive success. We are their descendants.”

― Nancy L. Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty

✧ BRAWN 💪🏽 -

In my previous Transmission, Awakening Brilliance & Becoming Creatively Invincible, we discussed Resistance, Resilience, and Resonance…

Brawn is Resilience, Strength & Fortitude,

It’s recognizing, being, and acting as an Absolute Force to be reckoned with,

GOOD UNDER PRESSURE:

Handling pressure under fire like the natural-born badass you are 🔥

Mastering intense, Supercharged Situations, by not cracking under pressure but rather only coming back harder bc you’re solid gold w a crystal core and a brave heart so you CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP (living your best life)

When the going gets tough, the tough get goin…

“Persistence wears down resistance”
- William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

This is a recipe for resilience. Tap into the energy of Commitment, Devotion, Laser-focus, & Grit - having a chip on your shoulder bc you know your’re the sauce 🧪 - the cake & the frosting & the cherry on top 🍰, & never taking your eye off the prize… 👁️🧿

✧ BLISS 🧘🏽‍♀️ -

Rather than measuring up to rigidity, establish a daily Rhythm & Flow around your Cyclical Nature, Energetic Signatures, and Personal Blueprints.

Surrender to the essence of Being & Weave magic into the mundane by:

Adopting the daily ritual for creatives/divergents/intuitives that hate routines by simply choosing and committing to *one* activity each* that helps you Embrace, Embody, and Express your innermost Divine Essence each day.

Get creative and switch them up. Get in the habit of asking & checking in with your body and spirit for what they need & desire. Have a list of things you can do for each category (like pray, meditate, recite mantras & words of affirmation, putting in a 2 hour deep work session towards one important project until it’s completion, have an imaginary dance-off in the mirror, practice intuitive eating, do a targeted skincare or beauty ritual, a 10 min breathwork session from bed as soon as you wake up, etc…)

Living By Design - both how you were best made to thrive by the Divine Creator, and the life you’ve chosen as a reflection of the highest good of your energetic blueprint, signature & essence…

The Simplicity of living your life the way you intend & were best designed to, in environments of least resistance

Get to know the ebbs & flows of your true essence through self reflection, esoteric schools, and a conscious synthesis of life lessons & experiences

Unleashing raw creativity (inner genius) to dream up a new world that only you were born & built to create

Actualizing your vision - turning ideas into experiences through the process of individuation (Maeslow)

Playing with Altered States of Consciousness - Rest, Rejuvenation, Recuperation, Play for the sake of Play… (SERIOUS FUN): this is how you stay lit up and on fire without burning out

About that FLOW STATE…

This 7 min 11 sec video by the author of The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer (which I’m currently reading), The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance - Steven Kotler, projects that Flow States could one day be prescribed as a medical remedy, and has already claimed to have found 22 ways to enter this state of consciousness on command.

Kotler describes Flow as “a state of 'effortless effort,' where we feel like we're propelled through an activity, and everything else seems to disappear. More specifically, flow refers to any moments of rapt attention and total absorption. You're so focused on the task at hand that everything else seems to disappear.”

& Speaking of Altered States & Bliss, did you know our brains give off a THC Neurotransmitter called Anandamide, AKA The Bliss Molecule (getting a natural high/on your own supply)???

The brilliant Joseph Rodriguez goes way deeper into it on his channel..

The Brillianaire WAY - the JOURNEY / MISSION 🎡🌈✨

THE BELLY OF THE BEAST is where you’re being consumed by your gifts & talents yet never satiated fully. The insatiable thirst for more/better/different. Getting eaten up by your dreams. The goal here is to ensure our Future generations don’t have to inherit the unlived lives & leftover dreams of their Ancestors (Us)

HARLEM by Langston Hughes illustrates an image for our minds to ponder:

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

THE COLISEUM - Know that it’s the ones in the ring that’re gonna get hit and get bruised, knocked & banged around - 🥊 Those that aren’t in the game are watching from the safety of the sidelines 🍿 Being in the Creatives’ Coliseum is about creating, listening to, working w Divine Source Energy to co-create. This is where you show & tell by doing, and as a result/in the process, embody your experience by learning & doing at the same time. It takes great Confidence, Courage, & Capability to overcome the BEAST and Ride It wild

Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth - Commit Works

BECOMING (ONE W) THE BEAST - STRENGTH CARD IN LE TAROT 🃏♾️, which depicts a woman ever-so-gently taming a ferocious beast (the lion), displaying her supreme wisdom of Compassion through Cooperation, which only enhances their Correspondence & Co-Creation

Strength Meaning - Major Arcana Tarot Card Meanings – Labyrinthos

Whatever you do, you must KEEP the BEAST ALIVE

Blood 🩸, Breath 🌬️ & Beat 💗 - signs of life

Enthusiasm & Inspiration as the breath of God

Enthusiasm meaning "inspired by [a] god's essence"

Inspiration coming from the Latin inspiratus (the past participle of inspirare, “to breathe into, inspire”) and in English has had the meaning “the drawing of air into the lungs”

Keeping HOPE alive and coming/acting from the heart-centered space, doing what sets your heart on fire, no matter what ❤️‍🔥

Having & keeping faith in the Ultimate Outcome and resting into the knowing that what’s yours is yours, always & forever, & will be revealed to you as your energies align (you’re ready to receive it & it’s ready to ve received) - a trust in Divine Timing.

The Resonance Performance Model 🪄🥼🌩️

Who knew? There’s a framework for that

I came across this model when I was reframing my own personal idea of work - specifically exploring how I could work smarter rather than harder. I was watching a TED Talk entitled “Stop Trying So Hard. Achieve more by doing less” when the speaker mentioned something called The Resonance Performance Model, so, naturally, I had to pause the video and go on a Google hunt. It felt almost like a miracle to find that someone had put into words, and a framework, the ideas I was toying with in my mind, life, and business. I’ve seen this process unfold and play out in my life countless times…

So, as a sort of follow-up to our last exploration on Brilliance, where you can also read up more from those Gene Keys placements I mentioned, and get a feel for Richard Rudd’s work,

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Music is a universal healer. That’s why it feels so good to discover & add new songs to your playlist - you’re saving more things that speak to your heart, that poetically paint the essence of your story in words that feel like they came right out of your mouth, tuning into the rhythms that invite you to be seen & heard & held & inspired…

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Let’s dig a bit deeper into this topic through the lens of the RPM by Doug Newburg, 2002 (90% academic text, 10% my musings & refinements):

Resonance is defined here as “the experience of being in harmony with the situation and the events in which one is performing to such an extent that one is able to influence those events masterfully, effortlessly, and with great psychic reward”; “the sense of seamless harmony with one’s surroundings so that internal experience and external experience are one. The fulfillment of performing at your best without strain.”

NOTES On Flow 101 🌊

When one is in a state of “resonance”, or flow (AKA being in the zone)…

Time warps, either speeding up or slowing down (you “lose track” of time, or are able to be aware of every minute detail as if it were happening in slow motion)
You lose self-consciousness (unbothered by outward concerns or appearances)
You focus intently on the task (able to be present to the moment)
You perform at the peak of your abilities
Yet it also feels effortless (you and your actions are one, energy flows through you)
You feel intensely, internally satisfied by the experience
Afterward, you regain an identity of a stronger, more capable self

Keep that B.D.E. - BIG DREAM ENERGY ☁️🌟💫

The 2 Kinds of Dreams

Dreams vs Goals - “People who focus on goals [as a measure of success] without paying attention to what they experience during the process struggle to achieve their goals or create an unsustainable process.”

External dreams are achievement-based, associated with the things you want to “do” or “be”, AKA “goals”.
Experiential, or internal dreams, deal with how you want to feel as you are engaging in these activities. What’s going on inside you as you’re performing at your best and enjoying what you’re doing the most

These 2 types of dreams present an important balance between results and experience. 💡

So start SHIPPING your best ideas up & out to the world 🚀👩🏽‍🚀…

Newburg lays out the key components to being a “World Class Performer” 🐇🎩🤩 as…

Having an experiential dream
Being willing to work for what you want
Feeling a strong sense of personal responsibility for creating the freedoms you wish to enjoy
Realizing you will encounter obstacles and setbacks on the journey
Managing your own energy and mental state by staying in touch with your experiential dream (keep it alive)
Experiencing harmony or wholeness when performing at your best, referred to here as “resonance”

Performance + Preparation 🎭

👏🏽 “Proper preparation prevents poor performance” 👏🏽

Performance is the creation and expression of ideas.

Preparation is the work necessary to realize a dream. The central goal is gaining mental, emotional, physial, and even cosmological mastery in one’s chosen area.

By virtue of preparation, [one is able to] develop complete freedom of expression. 💅🏽

The amount of time spent in preparation to excel becomes irrelevant if the preparation is on target and in line with the realization of one’s life’s dream.

This helps one establish an awareness of the relationship between freedom & responsibility. - A Major 🔑

🔍 The search for new ideas (doing something differently)

When a person identifies freedoms that they want to achieve and accepts the responsibilities that come with winning that freedom, they begin exploring. This exploration leads to lots of new ideas.

Implicit in this exploration is the understanding borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous, which says, “Insanity is expecting different results while continuing to do the same thing.”

Managing Your Energy 💫

Becoming aware of and managing energy enhancers and energy drainers. Paying attention to how you feel and what causes that, and designing your environment and behaviors around this awareness.

“These three components of the energy cycle feed into each of the four steps in the resonance model. It takes energy to define and clarify your dream, it takes energy to practice over and over again until you can do something, it takes energy to overcome obstacles, and it takes energy to develop the mental focus that allows your to revisit your dream without external inducement.”

🏔️ SOS - Setbacks, Obstacles, Successes (RESILIENCE)

Instead of buckling under pressure, throwing in the towel, or doubling down from a place of duty & brute force, like some may, World Class Performers choose to revisit their dream instead, and re-approach the task at hand from a place of flow rather than force

When you’re able to remember and focus on your internal dream, the way you want to feel, you’re able to move ahead with a sense of clarity, purpose, and commitment. Distractions become less enervating, obstacles become less formidable, and setbacks become less depressing. The difference is that the World Class Performers come back to the hard work of preparation from the dream side instead of the setback side.

It’s much easier to work when you have mentally and emotionally connected with how you want to feel, with your vision of what you’re seeking, than from the disappointment of another setback

When the preparation doesn’t seem to be working and the setbacks and obstacles seem insurmountable, World Class Performers are able to break through the barrier consistently by revisiting their internal dreams. This means pausing, getting out of the vicious failure-try harder “duty cycle”, revisiting one’s definition of the internal dream, refocusing one’s mind and attention on the joy that the dream brings, and letting go of the outcome. Paradoxically, by doing this, one performs better.

By developing the internal capacity to reconnect with the joy of fulfilling one’s dreams, we can bring energy, enthusiasm, and the “freedom of” together in ways that allow us to perform at our best.
If we are able to reenergize each day by revisiting and remembering that, of all the choices we had before us, we chose this path and this works and the way that it makes us feel inside, then we can invigorate ourselves and our work.

Thank you for reading UNCULTURED SWINE. Hopefully you enjoyed this *extra special* edition. If you did, feel free to share it with a friend, subscribe if you haven’t already, and/or show your appreciation for this offering by liking the post & letting me know what resonated & might’ve sparked something within you, or which of the 13 Tenets you feel called to dive deeper into now in the comments below

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