Maintaining conviction to foster leadership in change and improvement, in whatever way you can stretch your imagination or influence, can have it’s disappointments. There can be a push and pull with each new step forward, and your resolve can wane as you try to maintain momentum. Setbacks can be part and parcel of testing endurance and resolve, affecting your stamina, and how you involve, and evolve. And when life gets busy on the minutiae of distraction, it often helps to get inspiration from elsewhere, to lift above the circumstances at play, and to reframe purpose and intention, to continue on direction.
In 2011 Alan Clements published 108 reflections on the Art and Activism of Freedom in his book ‘A Future to Believe In’. Which did just that for me. It helped me maintain focus on my leadership intentions, with inspiration, more regularly.
Not only is the book a marvellous reflection of numerous aspirations and inspirations for planetary cultural movement, it has a large selection of sayings, and blendings of brilliance, from numerous writers, poets, teachers, and activists, in one wonderful book. You can dip your fingers in it, find your feelings, and create your own great mind maps from the content within it.
Yet, the best part in it for me is one, simple, beginning.
It opens with a dedication. One of my all time favourites, from the artist and poet, e.e. cummings:
‘i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)’.
It is wonderful. Not only because it is so beautiful in it’s simplicity and poignancy. But also because it reminds me of how strong and how vulnerable we are. And of what a privilege and a responsibility it is. To hold your own heart in esteem. As well as that of another.
And while my heart belongs to me. As yours does to you. We are offered many opportunities. To generate loving care for one another, and the collective anam cara.
Fostering your heart, and the hearts of your companions. Those with whom you are in tune. Those with whom the rhythm of life continues. Those with whom you learn. And those with whom you build a life of love. And a future to love, and to believe in, has a relevance important to everybody in the scheme of purposefully building and continuing holistic wellbeing.
Many of you have experienced significant and transformative life changes over the past recent years. One’s that have challenged you to love, to awaken, and to confront the meaning of your life work, your purpose, and your relationships.
And because each of you has a unique soul journey to take, along with the changes you make, you will join with threads of other people as time continues. Some who will leave, and those who will continue. In the re-ordering of what it is that will refine and define you. And the purposeful purity that is within you.
As you turn into each new season, establishing refreshment in your Loving Psyche wholeness wellbeing, and what it means for your life, leadership, and your work or business, take time to reflect on what A Future to Love and Believe In will look like in matters of your heart, and the heart of your collective…your family, your workplace, and your surroundings, however it presents, and is connective.
And may it bring you an unfolding Present, and a Future, of more Life, and more Love, and the realisation of what you can believe in, as you enter into each new beginning, at a pace that is ideal for your heart’s intended meaning.
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