DISCOVER AND SHARE
YOUR GIFTS AND TALENTS
Imagine if you lived every day remembering that you are loved. Think how your life would be if you knew that you are a beloved child of the universe—that you are special, precious, and unique. Imagine knowing that you do not have to earn the love nor that there is anything you could do to make that love go away. How would you feel, act, and be if you knew that you are loved?
When you operate from this or any of the Four Loving Truths, your mistaken beliefs and stinking thinking start to lose their power. You begin to operate from the mindset of “all is well.” All is possible from this foundational belief. Stinking thinking and mistaken beliefs stem from erroneously accepting that you are not loved, are unlovable, undeserving, unworthy, or not good enough. When you accept that you are loved, everything shifts. All is well.
The Gift of You—The Gift You Are
This week, we focus on the Fourth Loving Truth—Gifts are given to you to develop and use in the divine symphony of life. You have been encoded with unique gifts and talents. Your life experiences have uniquely bestowed you with gifts. When we assume that we have gifts, we start to look for them. In fact, when we accept that we all have gifts, we begin to recognize the responsibility we have to embark on the quest to discover, develop, and manifest them in the world. Life becomes a treasure hunt in which you, using your life as your map, set out to find your precious, valuable bounty and assets.
Talent Show! Share Your Gifts & Be a Gift
Main Assignment
This week, your assignment is to apply the principle of aliveness in your life. Use it to change the quality of interactions, the quality of your day, at work, and with others.
See how aliveness affects different aspects of your life:
Be alive with yourself
Orient to aliveness in everything you do this week—wherever you are, whether you are alone or with others.
How do you feel about yourself and your life when you are engaged in being alive?
Be aware of how orienting to aliveness affects your quality of experience, your quality of life, your energy, your satisfaction, your sense of yourself, etc.
Be alive at work
How effective are you at work when you align to aliveness?
How good a team member are you?
What are your interactions like?
How does it affect your productivity, energy, your attitude toward your job?
Be alive with family
How does your aliveness influence your family life?
Be alive with friends
How are your friendships influenced by your aliveness?
Very-Able Assignments
Enroll Others to Use the Principle of Aliveness with You
Enroll others to share in a situation, team project, at dinner, on a date…Let them know that you want to experience more aliveness in everything you do. Plan with others how to engage more fully and get more out of what you are doing. Invite others to challenge you when you are dead or checked out. Stop and rate yourselves and each other every once in a while on your quality of aliveness from 1 to 10.
Very-Able Assignments are designed to support you with your main assignment and/or to deepen the assignment. You can focus on one a day, or experiment with each or any or many of them to experience different aspects of your assignment.
Talent Pool - Survey your Gifts and Talents
Remember, we are always orienting to a principle—whether to its positive pole or its negative pole. We are either orienting to aliveness or deadness in any given moment or situation. Rate your aliveness every hour throughout the day. Give yourself a number score from 1 to 10 (where 10 is being fully alive) and record it on your worksheet titled “Wanted Dead or Alive?! Daily Tracking Form.” (as shown below). Assess what it would take for you to be more alive and do that the next hour. Then rate yourself again. Use this as a consciousness tool to increase your aliveness throughout the day.
Blocks to Aliveness: Beware of Ruts, Routines, & Soft Addictions!
Be aware of what you do to orient toward deadness rather than aliveness. What activities, ways of being, thinking, or situations seem to “kill” your aliveness, or make you less present? Note your soft addictions, zoning out, and stinking thinking that deaden you. Be aware of when you are numb, buzzed, foggy, out of it, in a trance. It is hard to “be aware” of when you are “numb, foggy, or in a trance” that’s the whole point! Well, catch it after the fact and track it back. See how easy it is for you to go “dead” as a default rather than “alive”. See how often you can switch back to aliveness when you have started to go toward deadness.
Go to the Movies! See the movie Zorba the Greek (or The Last Holiday with Queen Latifah, or Kick It, or . . .)
Identify the reactive and creative principles the main character chooses to align with. Explore the impact on the story of other characters and the principles to which they align. If you see other movies that illustrate aliveness, let me know! Email me to share your finds.
Stomp Clap Stomp Clap…“When you’re super alive and you’re startin’ to thrive…. Then You Gotta Share It!”
Share your aliveness with others and help them catch fire, too! Start a movement of aliveness and invite people to join you on the journey of transforming and unleashing their next most radiant selves.
Energize Your Life, Ignite Your World, Unleash Your Purpose!
Continue watching for opportunities to establish new relationships and exchange contact information, deepen existing relationships, and introduce people in your network to one another.
Experience as much aliveness in as many ways, situations, and with as many people as you can this week. Infuse everything you do with aliveness. Be alive when you wake up in the morning. (Try rinsing off with cold water in your morning shower to remind you to wake up and be alive!) Be alive as you get ready in the morning, eat your breakfast, attend a meeting, share lunch with friends, check your email, do work projects, workout, make dinner, call a friend… Be aware of all your senses: touch, hearing, sight, taste, smell. Be aware of the sensations in your body, the emotions you are having: fear, hurt, anger, sadness, or joy. Think about all the ways you can be more alive in all that you do—and do it!
Be present in the moment, in the here and now, and experience aliveness!
WANTED: Dead or Alive?!
Levels of Truth
The Blue Funnel of Truth
