How to Let Go of A Dream (and why I’m not starting a magazine)

How to Let Go of A Dream (and why I’m not starting a magazine)

What I’m campaigning for is that you embrace the potential genius of the last minute knowings (because they’re natural).

Consider that your last minute revelation of how it could be better might be higher guidance, and do what it takes to make it so.

The one part of the plan that isn’t changing? The plan to always give your very best.

Busting limitations, and, my new hot tub. They’re related.

Busting limitations, and, my new hot tub. They’re related.

Pace Smith is so good at asking the deeper questions about what it means to do meaningful work in the world. Unlike most “business” interviews, here we talk a lot about deep desire, hit on The Enneagram, make our way to The 99 Divine Qualities of Sufism and slide into the first base of grace.

The moments that make for burning gratitude.

The moments that make for burning gratitude.

My gratitude for all of this burns in my solar plexus. Sometimes I push against it. I have to consciously breathe it in — choose to expand rather than contract, choose to let it melt any illusions of lack. Mostly, I breathe, and smile deeply, and say Thank you. And then I detach a bit. Because you know, I don’t think I have much to do with anyone else’s a-ha’s. And I just get on with being expressive…grateful…expressive…grateful.