There’s something you need to know if you’re going to be exploring your bright, emerging future – all the things you’re able to do with your passions and skills.

There’s a push-back.

The push-back is the reaction you experience to going further and deeper with the purpose of your life.  It may come from outside – by pushing into your emerging future, you unknowingly challenge others whose lives are held in stasis, you make others uncomfortable in their organised rut, and, subtly, they can bring pressure on you to show their disappointment.

Or, the push-back may come from within.  You begin to doubt your ability to increasingly connect, as you’ll be invited to,  with other people, with the big world in which you live; you doubt the capacity of “the well” which holds all you need; and, you question you ability to keep doing these these things because it’s exhausting.

Let’s name these things so we can know them more.

The first is Integrity, by which I mean our increasing oneness and connectedness with others, with our world, and with our true Self – including for some, spiritual ideals and faith.

The second is Wholeness, by which I mean our capacity to love and be creative.  It’s not the same as being complete or perfect – if such states exist.  You have enough right now to set out on an amazing journey, which, when embraced bring wholeness.

The third is Perseverance, by which I mean our capacity to keep going and achieving more.  Like the marathon runner, you have honoured the small steps and found you can travel further than imagined.

None of these are set, each can extend and develop and grow.

If the push-back comes from others, it’s likely they’ve a fixed view of who they are and what they can do, or maybe don’t want to do the hard work of bringing themselves into a bigger world: possibly connection problems (integrity), a belief they don’t have enough to draw on (wholeness), and giving up too soon (perseverance).

When the push-back comes – and it will – the only solution is to push on.  You don’t know your limits or capacities because you’ve not been there yet.

Read more (some quickly assembled book suggestions, below), meet with like-minded person, connect with a group that “gets it,” do something amazing (even if it’s a small something), keep checking in – we need each other.

Anything by Seth Godin, including:
Poke the Box
The Icarus Deception

From Ken Robinson:
The Element
Finding Your Element

A little more demanding:
The Genius in All of Us by David Schenk
Creativity by Mihaly Csizsentmihalyi