Released 29th October 2020 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Youtube
The episode you’re about to hear is an excerpt from one of the private laser-coaching & Q&A sessions I do each month with my ClarityPro Members.
Just to give you a bit of background, I’d been telling my clients about something my team and I do called ‘Project Gretsky’, inspired by a quote from the phenomenal hockey player, Wayne Gretsky who famously said, “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it’s been.”
In Project Gretsky, my team and I look to the future, and make guesses about where the world’s heading, how we can best guide our clients and how we can inspire and educate a generation to experience lives of clarity, resilience and wellbeing. It’s how we ended up developing our state of the art live-streaming facility, as well as a number of other innovations we’ve got in the pipeline.
So during last night’s Laser-coaching / Q&A session, one of our ClarityPro members (Andrea Bruno) asked a question that stopped me in my tracks.
Andrea said he was thinking about Project Gretsky, and thought it would be very cool and useful to do something like that, but he said that in the past, whenever he tried to predict the future, he got frustrated because he wanted to be right about it. If things didn’t go his way he got increasingly worried, and in the end, he just stopped trying to make any predictions because it wasn’t worth the anxiety factor. But something in Project Gretsky spoke to him, and he wanted to get some clarity about that.
So why did this stop me in my tracks? Because I’d never given much thought to how I relate to this whole domain of prediction and future trends.
What you’re going to hear in this episode is this: first you’ll hear Andrea’s question, then you’ll get my counter-intuitive answer, then finally you’ll hear how it lands with Andrea.
So here’s the episode:
Comments
Thank you for this podcast Jaime – what I got from hearing you and Andrea is that understanding the workings of the source, the tools of where the solutions are created is the game changer – the wave will present it self as it may but the predictability and certainty of understanding how the tool system works is the source of confidence to tackle the wave. Much love
Loved this … it seems timely as lockdown 2.0 arrives. Some will train and wax their boards and others will see and catch a wave …
couple of things stand out –
1. community … being in and connected can alert us to the opportunities for surfing and also sharpen our training
2. What is a wave for me – might not be a wave for anyone else and vice versa
Oh and The universe / God makes the wave … brilliant.
“Show me the way” – my prayer for years. But it’s so hard to know the answer form no answer. Or rather God’s answer from my own guesses, dreams, desires, imaginations. My vocation from my vanity, megalomania.
Rev. Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland between 1948-81, very couragious man himself, famously said ‘Faith in the rightness of the goal brings great courage’. I’d say more: without that faith there’s no courage at all. Now how to ‘get’ this faith, not knowing what’s right for me, what I was made for? When I hardly trust myself.
If I knew what’s right, I believe I’d do it. Fearlessly or with my pants wet, but I’d do. And hope I’d know which wave is for me, then I’d catch it. As simple as that.