Mastermind | peacefruit

Last week, I had the great good fortune to luxuriate in the company of Dr. Linda Pucci and Sandy Rees. Linda, Sandy and I gather every couple of weeks in search of our collective wisdom. Primarily, the three of us focus on how to best share our unique talents and gifts with the world, a kind of mastermind group.

If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of retreat . . . personal retreat, spiritual retreat, even business retreat. Last week, Sandy, Linda and I had a mastermind retreat. In our shared company, I delighted in witnessing the brilliance of LIFE shine through in the laughter, the creativity and the nuts and bolts ideas that came out of our retreat.

We started with sharing the outcomes we were hoping for, a kind of clarifying of our intentions. Then we each spent a couple of hours sharing where we were stuck and where we needed help. In this sharing, we accessed the magnificent wisdom that comes when you pull together people who are willing to put themselves aside and generously give of themselves to serve another.

For me, I got crystal clear about what my next steps are in how to best serve others. As you may remember, I’ve been looking for ways to offer my service to a broader group and keep my psychotherapy and coaching practice going, because I love that and it just happens to be the BEST job in the world for me.

No small thanks to those of you who graciously completed my survey (still open for those who want to add their 2 cents) and Linda and Sandy AND Shade (more on him later). I’m clearer. I’ve been keeping myself from moving forward with doing some recordings and offering more tele-classes because I don’t like writing sales copy. Now, seeing that in print, I think that’s pretty ridiculous. Do you agree? Is there some way you’ve been keeping yourself stuck? And, once stepping back half an inch from it can you see how taking that one little step might make this world an even better paradise as you bring YOUR brilliance more fully to the party?

Back to Shade.

After Linda, Sandy and I played in Linda’s glorious east Tennessee office, we went out to Linda’s barn where she garnered the support of her four legged friends to help us all access just a bit more wisdom…straight from the horses’ mouth. Shade was my wisdom teacher.

Melanie & Shade

In addition to being a coach and psychotherapist, Linda is a gifted Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator. She led Sandy and I through a couple of exercises with the horses to help us learn a couple of more lessons about what else might be going on in our businesses. From Shade I learned about the importance of being persistent and fully accessing my resources. I also learned that I sometimes make things harder than they need to be. Am I the only one who does this? Can I hear an “Amen?”

So, here’s what I’m committing to in order to bring my brilliance to the party:

~ Regular business retreats for MY business (rather than just facilitating them for others). Take note of the REGULAR aspect of this. I’ve done retreats for my business before, but in no routine way.
~ Persistance
~ I’ll ask myself if I’m fully accessing my resources.
~ I’ll work to stay attuned to how I can make things easier rather than harder

So, what about you? How about if you bring your brilliance to the party? There’s a power in each of us fully showing up for life. There’s a power in our sharing wisdom. There’s the power of ONE.

On that note, take a look at this…be patient and watch the whole video, I think you’ll be happy you did.

Boddhisatva on the Metro