What is your beautiful gift?
What an expansive and life-giving question to start the new year!
It came from the delightful and brilliantly insightful Dr Ernesto Sirolli*.
What do you love to do, that brings you alive and makes you shine from the inside?
It may be buried away, unused in a compartment of your life that you rarely let out to play.
Yet, it is not your gift. It is not for you alone.
In this emerging world, we need all the beautiful gifts because none can shine independently.
We light up each other and collectively create magic – things beyond our imaginings.
So if you are feeling rusty or your inner eyes are a bit dim: invite someone to ask you about your dreams and your beautiful gift.
And listen to where you come alive.
Then return the gift.
* Some good friends recently introduced me to Ernesto’s TED talks. ‘Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!’ from 2014 is an excellent place to start. Enjoy.
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This week
We have used John O’Donohue’s powerful blessing At the end of the year to prepare for the close of 2021.
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2 年There is this experience we are having and we may as well experience it because [fill in the blank] ?? Another turn around the sun Sue Heatherington!
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2 年I heard this faint rumour once that we work to live, but I'm not sure if i think that's true. Do you? We've a very short time here. Might as well make it a meaningful and enjoyable dance where we can. ?? I think other people are best at seeing our gifts perhaps? That said i think I'm good at encouraging other people, developing a supportive team spirit, networking people together, and joining seemingly unrelated dots. When people are coming up with their own positive ideas, and helping each other, and i know that part of the reason for that is gentle encouragement from the back - that's success right there! ?? https://youtu.be/1xm35FunQLA