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Tip #4: Make Friends with Change, Discomfort and Not Knowing
Make Friends with Change, Discomfort and ‘Not Knowing’
Tip #4 of 8 Tips for Building an Innovative Business and Life
There are unknowns in life, but many important questions will have answers if we’re willing to create the space for them to emerge. This requires the faith to sit consciously with an inquiry, to hear what comes to mind and to feel what’s in our hearts and bodies. What are the messages you are receiving? How does it feel in your stomach? What unusual word or phrase comes to mind? The power is in the willingness to stay with the process until we have a knowing. (an excerpt from Maximum Flux by Lucky Sweeny and Bonnie Kelley in the Heal My Voice Book: Innovative Voices: True Stories by Women Awakening a New World
After my first year at East Stroudsburg State College, I spent the summer of 1976 working as a maid, at the George Washington motel, reflecting on what I had uncovered as a “time to grow up,” moment. All summer, while changing bed linens, cleaning bathrooms and vacuuming, I watched Phil Donahue, a talk show host on TV, interview guests, like Alex Haley (Roots), Gail Sheehy (Passages), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones) and Shere Hite (The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality). Phil Donahue ran through the mainly female audience with his microphone…
