A year ago…
No. It doesn’t begin there.
When you sit and process your own existence can you actually point to a clear beginning to anything that is meaningful? Or does most everything feel as if it’s a continuation of something?
I joined a program called Best Year Yet on March 29, 2015. March 29, 2015 is the date of when my plan started according to the tracking system it is connected to.
I met the now CEO of Best Year Yet a year ago in September.
Several years prior to that I chose to ‘leave’ the concept of a traditional role of a mental health provider in schools.
I suppose the point I am offering is that our lives are not linear. Our lives are interconnected and there is a synchronicity to all existence and occurrences.
I recall a moment of significance where my own linear, finite mind began to see this deeper truth. I was taking a course at the Denver Family Institute. I assume the course was related somehow to Clinical Theory. The instructor drew a line that represented a person’s life. He drew a dot early on the line to represent a major life event. He said there are two different mindsets in treatment. One mindset is that this event that occurred is basically bad, and because it happened it unfortunately is going to negatively influence the rest of the person’s life. The second mindset was that the event was a circumstance in the person’s experience of life. One of many circumstances that are all interrelated. In other words, our experience of life is not about having a list of the good and the bad. Our life experience is integrating all of it, the good and the bad.
Perspective.
Needless to say, there have been an interwoven series of circumstances that led me to meet Laurie Oswald, which led me to create my own BYY plan, and allowed me to be coached by Cathey Stamps.
I am now an individual coach for the program and just completed training in group facilitation.
It is an interesting mix to utilize a particular (external) guidance system for personal growth (ie. Best Year Yet) that proves to be as organic, interwoven, and subject to change as this universe we live in; and then concurrently facilitate the process, which is relatively concrete, as a guide for others.
The integration of a systematic process with an undefinable, limitless outcome is not unlike our fundamental experience of life. The weaving together of masculine and feminine energies, or the integration of the right and left sides of the brain.
Most of us live closely connected and loyal to one or the other - we are unapologetically organized and expectant of particular outcomes, or we are unapologetically doing our best to not follow order and a particular sequence of how things are supposed to be.
What if the grand lesson of this life experience is really to integrate all of it, to genuinely recognize the beauty of order and supremely organized systems that govern our existence with or without our awareness, along with the unknown - the magic, the mystery, the possibilities.
At the training this week, Laurie Oswald read a quote in regard to the blending of spirit and technology.
A blending.
Integrated.
Whole.
Can Best Year Yet actually allow us to create meaningful guidelines for our lives based on lessons that are derived from personal experience? Can Best Year Yet actually offer a process to recognize and intentionally shift deeply embedded beliefs that are inefficiently guiding us toward limiting outcomes, and create new paradigms that shift our subconscious programming and align us with possibility, inspiration, and creativity? Can Best Year Yet effectively draw out our truth, what we value most, and then embed these true convictions and desires with our various roles, to create authentic and aligned outcomes (goals) that reconnect us to passion, intuition, and a relationship with our own internal guidance system?
Can Best Year Yet do this with a simple one page plan?
Seriously, what if we all created and pursued our authentic desire of a BEST year YET?
And had a system for monthly goal setting and tracking to hold us accountable?
It would be AWESOME.
And it is possible.Best Year Yet
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