A Brief October Update

I haven’t forgotten about you, dear reader; I’ve just been really busy.

I’ve been traveling a lot the past few months: up the West Coast in June, Chicago-Montreal-Denver and El Paso last month, Vegas later this month, Hawaii next month. I’ve learned a little about surfing and a lot more about my body through structural integration. My current employment is keeping me busy (and gainfully employed). Yet while everything is going pretty well, I wasn’t feeling self-actualized. I was in the enviable and strange position of feeling miserable and really happy at the same time, with no obvious pointers to why I was feeling bad.

When times like these happen, it’s best to talk it over with someone to gain another perspective. In this case I had to find someone who has been in my position before, understands the skills and perspectives I have, and has the experience to guide me through what I need to do. Fortunately I found the perfect coach for what I needed, and she’s been nothing short of amazing.

We met for a few sessions to talk about the next great leap in my life. We discussed where I am, where I’d like to be and what the next immediate steps are. We came to the conclusion that the work I’m here to do is going to be very valuable, but it isn’t something that I can start immediately (e.g. affiliate marketing). I’m going to need to do a little more work and introspection, planning and training before I can hit the sweet spot that is my life purpose.

I was also challenged to write when I was inspired to, instead of trying to write every week. While I feel good about what I wrote in my last few entries, I felt that I was trying to write to a deadline and force the topics more than I wanted to. So I chose to take a break that ended up being… three or four months.

Fortunately, the direction I’m heading isn’t too far off from what I was blogging about. Integration and helping others integrate is one of the key skills I have in my pocket. I’m still all about leadership, taking action, and seeing the world from an Integral point of view. The audience that I’m writing to may change a little bit while I zero in on the target, but I believe everyone can benefit from my writing in the next few months.

One of the things that I want to focus on is being a little more practical and a little less theoretical when I write. I’m not here to teach Integral Theory or post-modern philosophy, but it’s one of the tools in the bag. I’ll make an effort to introduce it where it’s necessary instead of writing explicitly about it. Thus I’m not going to introduce the many facets of AQAL to the world – but I sense that it wasn’t going to be a popular series for most of my audience anyway.

In short, I’m back, and the focus of the blog isn’t going to change too much, but I’ll be writing to play with the strengths I have and to what audience I’m writing to.

Keep an eye out for another evolution of this blog. It will have another address, and I’m starting that evolution from scratch. I’m starting to understand how a business is coming into focus this year; I didn’t see it back in January when I wrote about it.

What have you been up to in the past few months?