Grief & Surrender as Pathways to Your Goals

Grief & Surrender as Pathways to Your Goals

Have you been wanting something in your career or in your life for a very very long time?

Maybe you’ve been doing all the things people tell you you should do but nothing has worked… You are discouraged, and wonder what else you can do.

If this is you, this video is for you!

I’m sharing two tools, often overlooked, that may help you get unstuck.

 

 

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One of my favorite tools for manifesting & creating

One of my favorite tools for manifesting & creating

Do you wonder what is one of the most powerful tools to manifest and create what you want? 

It’s probably not what you think… Read on as I share about it

A week ago, I felt compelled to have this travel brochure open on the page of Copenhagen, Denmark, in my apartment.

Traveling around the world is an intention of mine. I like displaying in my home things that represent what I want more of in my life, such as the travel destinations I want to visit. However, Denmark and Copenhagen are not necessarily on my Top 5 or even Top 10 lists.

However, I felt a strong pull to keep the brochure open on that page. I was not sure why… except maybe because I loved this pic. My logical mind was saying “Denmark is not in your top 5, you should use a different picture,” my intuition was saying: “keep it there.”

Well, guess what?

Four days later, a past client from five years ago reached out to work with me again. Guess where she lives? Copenhagen! Five years ago, she did my Land the Career You Love 1:1 Program. I helped her manifest her dream to move from the US to Copenhagen to work and live there. She now needs support to reach her next career dream.

You may think this is just a coincidence…

Well, my skeptical mind would have thought this too in the past, until I noticed occurrences like this happening over and over again…

  • That day in Paris in 2001 when I felt compelled to get back home as soon as possible… Thirty minutes after I got back to my Parisian apartment, I received a phone call on my landline (no cell phones at the time!) to offer me a position to work in Montreal, Canada. A month before, my then-boyfriend and I had set the intention to move either to Canada or Australia. This call totally changed the trajectory of my life and started my journey in North America, from Montreal to San Francisco.
  • That time when I felt called to share my phone number in an email replying to an ad for an apartment on Craigslist… I generally would not share my phone number in the first email. Providing my phone number resulted in me getting the apartment of my dreams with a hot tub and a breathtaking view of the Golden Gate Bridge. The landlord called my phone, heard my voice message, visited my business website, thought I was probably a serious candidate, and asked me to visit the apartment that same day. After five minutes of visiting the place, I knew it was the place I had envisioned.
  • That morning, on the doorstep of my apartment in Mountain View ready to leave for work at Yahoo! when I felt a nudge telling me to go and grab my external hard drive… Several hours later, I was laid off from Yahoo! and was able to quickly save the portfolio of my work because I had my hard drive with me.
  • Last month, when I felt called to sign up for several classes on Manifesting, even though my logical mind was telling me “this is not what you need right now; you already know that stuff; why do you want to take these classes?” But something in me felt the pull to sign up anyway. As a result, I discovered a mentor and a program that is EXACTLY what I need this year to achieve my next-level dreams. My logical mind would never have conceived that this is what I needed most.  If I had listened to her and what “made sense” instead of my intuition, I would have passed that amazing opportunity to reach my next dreams.

The list goes on and on… I’ve dozen and dozen examples like these.

What are you listening to when you make decisions?

Your rational mind and what makes “logical sense”
OR
your intuition, your gut feeling, the quiet whisper within?

Well, if you rely mostly on your logical mind and what “makes sense” when making decisions, you are…

  • probably working WAY harder than you could to get what you want,
  • and missing out on many amazing opportunities because they don’t seem “rational” or “reasonable.”

in Western cultures, we give too much power to the mind and what makes logical sense. As a result, we prevent great things from happening in our lives and we make things way harder than they could be.

“The intuitive mind Is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” ~ Albert Einstein or someone else (uncertain attribution)

This has been one of my MOST IMPORTANT lessons in the past several years, and continues to be. 

I’m someone quite rational; this is how I was raised. Reason is highly valued in France. Remember this is the country of Descartes: “I think therefore I am.” I’ve led a big part of my life following reason over intuition and gut feeling. However, over the years, I’ve learned that the more I follow my intuition, the easier I create the things I want in my work and life.

It is a continual learning in surrendering to deeper knowing than the rational mind. However, the more I trust this inner knowing—like in the instances I shared above—, my intuition, my gut feeling, my instincts, however you want to call it, the more magic happens in my life and the easier things come to me. The things I attract as a result are way BETTER than what I could have conceived if I had followed the logical steps dictated by my rational mind. 

Such as:

  • the perfect work situation to move to Montreal, Canada. 
  • my dream apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area at a reasonable monthly rent, compared to the current market.
  • the perfect mentors to help me unlock my next career and life dreams. 
  • an amazing immigration lawyer to help me get a US working Visa better than I could have imagined.

If things feel consistently hard in your life, it could be because you are overthinking and over-relying on your rational mind. Obviously, this is not the only piece of the puzzle, but I see so many people discounting their inner knowing and true desires on the altar of seemingly “reasonable decisions that make sense.”

It is not because our Western societies overemphasize rational intelligence as a decision-making instrument, that this is the most effective tool to get what we want in our lives.

My experience is actually showing the opposite.  

If this is new to you, I encourage you to start practicing with small things, without major consequences.

  • When facing a decision, notice when you feel an internal conflict or feel torn. It may be your logical mind conflicting with your authentic desire. What one is saying? What about the other?
  • Practice noticing the nudges of your instinct, gut feeling, or desires.
  • Be careful when you hear yourself or a well-intentioned friend saying something like “You should do this or that.” Be wary of the shoulds. Most of the time, they come from your rational mind and fears. Shoulds” and ‘haves to” are not an effective compass to get what you truly want. 

I’ve learned that if I’m strongly called to do something, I don’t need to know the why or if it makes sense. I do it, like opening up the travel brochure to the page of Copenhagen.

What are you called to do that you may stop yourself from doing out of “shoulds” or’ seemingly ‘”reasonable” arguments?

Today is the DAY!!!

Today is the DAY!!!

I talk about finding the inner compass to your purposeful work through my own journey and through a powerful guided visualization that will you help you find the heart of your purpose.

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Isabelle

P.S. In this retreat, my colleagues and wise women, Aelah and Kristen are in conversation with 21 wisdom keepers who are living on purpose from their hearts. And sharing daily practices and inspiration throughout the retreat.

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You will be able to listen to these pre-recorded sessions, focus on your daily practices, and build a conscious community from the comfort of your own space.

A few voices of extraordinary wisdom keepers who share their gifts include:
Lynne Twist, Mare Cromwell, Laura Rose, Lucca Petrucci, Emmi Mutale

Please invite your friends, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers! Anyone who is ready to focus on living their heart’s purpose in 2023.

How to live your purpose in 2023 🔥

How to live your purpose in 2023 🔥

Are you ready to live your purpose in 2023? 

I’m honored to be one of the 21 speakers featured in this Free 21-Day Online Retreat…

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In this retreat, my colleagues and wise women, Aelah and Kristen are in conversation with 21 wisdom keepers who are living on purpose from their hearts. And sharing daily practices and inspiration throughout the retreat.

I am honored to be one of the 21 speakers. I’ll be sharing my wisdom as a part of this series: Activate Your Heart’s Purpose: Feeling loved as you bravely step into your purpose and prosperity.

If you’re ready to lead from your heart’s purpose, activate prosperity, and build community with other heart-centered humans, this will help you….

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You will be able to listen to these pre-recorded sessions, focus on your daily practices, and build conscious community from the comfort of your own space.

A few pieces of wisdom offerings include:

  • Speaking your authentic voice
  • Standing as a passion-powered, vision-guided, and action-oriented leader
  • How to live a committed life of authentic prosperity
  • Staying focused on your heart-centered purpose each day

A few voices of extraordinary wisdom keepers who share their gifts, include:
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JOIN US on this beautiful journey

We begin January 21!
Please invite your friends, sisters, mothers, grandmothers! Anyone who is ready to focus on living their heart’s purpose in 2023.

I look forward to “seeing” you there!

Isabelle

It is TIME

It is TIME

“anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.”

~ David Whyte

As we transition into a new year, It is time to let go of the things that don’t bring us alive and step into the ones that do.

What are you letting go of? What are you stepping into?

It’s TIME.

Have a blessed holiday season,

Isabelle

P.S. Here is the full poem.

Sweet Darkness
by David Whyte

“Listen
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your home
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.”

Listen to the poem here.

I’m working from my bed today…

I’m working from my bed today…

I’m still in my PJs. It’s 2pm.

No, I’m not sick

I’m not ‘lazy”

I’m not being “unproductive.”

Quite the opposite.

Here is what happened…

This morning, I felt some resistance to “work.” My mind was telling me “It’s Monday. You should go and work at your desk. This is the way workdays are supposed to be.”

My body wanted to stay in bed. Instead of fighting it, I reluctantly surrendered to it, while judging myself as “lazy” and “unproductive.”

Then, I started to journal.

And then I got inspired to watch a training video from my bed, so I brought my laptop. I felt a surge of inspiration again.

Then, I said, “what about I wrote this LinkedIn post.”

And then, I emailed my assistant.

And now, I’m feeling motivated to take on other tasks…that I was resisting earlier.

…all from bed.

It’s 2pm. I’ve not eaten yet. (It’s probably time now!) But I’m being productive and inspired… from my bed and in my PJs.

I found my inspiration from my bed.

If I had forced myself to do my usual Monday routine and go to my desk, I would probably not have accomplished as much as I did. I would probably still be beating myself up for not being productive.

Why am I sharing this?

Well, it is extremely hard to take action and be productive from a place of “should.” It is actually the most counterproductive thing to do.

Yet, many of us do it. We are trained to follow the “shoulds” and the “rules.”

– What work is supposed to look like.

– What Monday and a workday are supposed to be

– What “being productive” is supposed to look like.

Society and the work culture make the rules and we follow them, without realizing that maybe there are other ways, that don’t fit the box and that work better for us.

And then, we wonder why we are unproductive, and we judge ourselves as “lazy.”

It takes courage to challenge and break away from the “shoulds” to listen to your natural energy flow.

But, on the other side of it, there is inspiration, creativity, joy, and YOUR authentic contribution to the world.

You don’t create from a place of “shoulds.” You create from a place of freedom from the shoulds, inspiration, and aliveness.

Do you give yourself permission to challenge and break away from the “shoulds” to listen to your natural energy flow?

What is a “should” you can challenge today?

Even if you have a job you need to go to or a schedule you need to follow, there is always a place where you can find freedom from the “shoulds.”

What is it for you?