How to commit to action
Feel like you’re stuck in a loop of fear, overwhelm, and endless faffing about? You’re not alone. Making a big change, whether in life or work, can feel like staring at a blank page with no idea where to begin. But getting moving doesn’t have to be scary, boring, or complicated.
In this episode, Laurence, Carlos, and Lana lift the lid on a framework that’s been a game-changer for their Vision 20/20 programme. They share what they’ve learned, what’s worked, and why this approach has helped their community turn “I’m too scared to start” into “Why didn’t I do this sooner?”
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the question is, when you are committing to action is like,
Speaker:why are you committing to it?
Speaker:You know, there's, there's things that we should do and
Speaker:there's things that we wanna do.
Speaker:And really understanding that intention and making that really sort of.
Speaker:Coming from the inside out is what we believe is important to make kind of
Speaker:a sustainable steps, sustainable steps to doing the thing you want to do.
Speaker:And so with people who join the Vision 2020 program, we kind of broke
Speaker:it down into kind of four pathways.
Speaker:There's, they wanna create a new offering, they've got a new invitation, and I'll
Speaker:tell you more what, what that means.
Speaker:Uh, kind of got a new perspective they wanna put out into the world.
Speaker:Or they're just going in a completely new direction and it's very much exploratory.
Speaker:There's nothing they want to give.
Speaker:There's more kind of like I want to explore.
Speaker:And so just to break that down in a bit more details to, to get to that
Speaker:process of action, we believe you need to really tune into the needs to.
Speaker:And when you understand those needs, and these are high order needs.
Speaker:The way I wanna think about it, this is less about, you know, safety and security.
Speaker:This is more about self-actualization needs.
Speaker:These are kind of these things like learning growth, friendship
Speaker:connection, things that are more, um, less existentially or, I don't
Speaker:know, I. Life urgent for want of, gotta think of a better word.
Speaker:If you've got a better phrase for that, please let us know.
Speaker:Less seismic.
Speaker:Less seismic.
Speaker:Less, yeah.
Speaker:Less life.
Speaker:Quay.
Speaker:Uh, and so yeah, the needs tuning into those needs then based on those
Speaker:needs, making a commitment that really, really enforces the actions
Speaker:that you wanna sort like to carry out and to, to create momentum.
Speaker:And so in terms of the different, um, pathways, and I won't go into too much
Speaker:detail here, but just to illustrate it, if it's a new offering, if it's something
Speaker:like a product or a service you wanna put out in the world, something that's new
Speaker:and that's something that's different, there's doing it because you wanna make
Speaker:money or there's doing it because it meets your needs for contribution, creativity,
Speaker:growth, and potentially stability.
Speaker:Because adding to the business that you want to sustain
Speaker:yourself with and feel safe with.
Speaker:If it's something like an invitation, and when I'm talking about invitation, you
Speaker:wanna collaborate, you want to build a community, you wanna start a movement, you
Speaker:wanna go in a, you know, create a broader change, be part of a system of change,
Speaker:or you're motivated to buy a mission.
Speaker:Then the action is to put the word out there.
Speaker:It will be to engage with other people.
Speaker:Would be maybe to arrange an event, maybe put up a manifesto just to
Speaker:tell the story of what you're, why you're doing what you're doing.
Speaker:But that again, isn't just because you should do it.
Speaker:It isn't just because we told you to do it or these, you know,
Speaker:you've seen someone on YouTube tell you that's what you're gonna do.
Speaker:It's because you have a need for collaboration.
Speaker:You have a need con for connection.
Speaker:You have a need for community, and you have a need for friendship.
Speaker:And so again, tying the needs to actions.
Speaker:And then similarly.
Speaker:If you have you, I dunno, you've been an experienced entrepreneur or
Speaker:experienced coach, or you've been like writing and researching in the dark,
Speaker:hidden from the world, and now you wanna launch this idea to the world.
Speaker:You've got a new perspective, a new way of looking things,
Speaker:a new way of working for us.
Speaker:It is like a new way of doing business.
Speaker:And you'll need to put that into the world.
Speaker:And again, there are ways and strategies to do that.
Speaker:But ultimately tying into what's gonna motivate you to do some of the hard works,
Speaker:to get over the hard work, to get over the hurdles that might be like fear or
Speaker:self-doubt or imposter syndrome, and, and those needs again, can be personal growth,
Speaker:self-expression, creativity, contribution.
Speaker:Those are the needs you wanna meet.
Speaker:And so you want to have those in mind.
Speaker:And then finally, it could be potentially just.
Speaker:Life has gone one way and you decided to go another way and it's a complete shift.
Speaker:You're gonna change because of life quakes, like Lawrence was saying, you
Speaker:know, something's happened in your life that said, you know, this path,
Speaker:it could be an illness, it could be a bereavement, it could be a redundancy,
Speaker:it could be exiting your business and suddenly, do you know what?
Speaker:I need to go somewhere different 'cause I don't wanna, what got me
Speaker:here is not gonna be get me there and I don't even know where there is.
Speaker:And so there it's like the actions are.
Speaker:Basically going out into the world, reaching out to people, going to new
Speaker:spaces and experiences and traveling.
Speaker:Maybe that may be scary because it's not the same as the way you
Speaker:used to behave, and that's why, again, tuning into the needs.
Speaker:What are the needs?
Speaker:Personal growth, self-expression, self-discovery, creativity, authenticity.
Speaker:Again, words I'm just throwing out there.
Speaker:That might not mean anything to you right now, but it's just an invitation to think
Speaker:about what are these things inside us that are telling us to do something else that.
Speaker:We might get in the way of ourselves from doing, and this is where this
Speaker:idea of commitments come into play.
Speaker:Talked about the actions, which the things that we are gonna do in the
Speaker:world, Ty, to tie them to a need.
Speaker:So the give us a reason to actually act, but to get through that you need
Speaker:to commit to something that might be a bit challenging or something
Speaker:that's gonna pull you forward.
Speaker:So it could be curiosity, it could be a need to be seen.
Speaker:Or commit to be seen, I should say.
Speaker:You might have a need for safety, but you need to commit to be seen.
Speaker:They might be intention, but when you analyze the different needs of like,
Speaker:oh, maybe it's, I need creativity and self-expression are important to me.
Speaker:If you're not seen, then how do you develop these ideas and how
Speaker:do you also be to contribute, meet that need for contribution?
Speaker:what, what comes up for me is really to have a deeper, I would
Speaker:say, attunement with oneself.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It, it requires that, it requires an understanding of one's needs and
Speaker:then an understanding of again, going back to that Socratic principle of
Speaker:what's good enough, we're now safe enough to try when it comes to, um,
Speaker:exploring how those needs can be met.
Speaker:Um, because it might be, you know, the, the strategies that we choose
Speaker:and how those needs will be met or the actions that we choose.
Speaker:Um, might be too broad or too, encompassing that does not meet with the
Speaker:capacity or the time or the resources that we have in a given moment.
Speaker:So for me, I have the, the image that I have is really
Speaker:like a, An accordion, right?
Speaker:Of like, mm-hmm.
Speaker:When you're thinking about your needs and you're thinking about the commitments that
Speaker:you'd want, you also think in terms of the capacity and the resourcing that it, it's
Speaker:needed for you to be able to determine what will be your next course of action.
Speaker:well done for weaving the accordion into our work.
Speaker:I dunno how you did that.
Speaker:I haven't managed to, I've got one set next to me and I'm not gonna play it.
Speaker:Um, yeah, I like this model because it feels like an evolution.
Speaker:Like you said, Carlos.
Speaker:Um, in the past we've really wanted people to launch something and I think that
Speaker:energy is great 'cause it gets you going, but also at the same time it can be.
Speaker:A bit debilitating for some people who don't feel ready to launch or they don't
Speaker:have a thing to put out into the world.
Speaker:And so it can stop us from moving forward.
Speaker:Um, so I, I love this idea of, um, moving forward, sort of expanding.
Speaker:So the perspective, new perspective for me really talked to me.
Speaker:'cause I thought of when we started the Happy Startup
Speaker:School, it was really about that.
Speaker:It wasn't, I don't think I ever had a goal to create a whole new direction
Speaker:necessarily, maybe, but it wasn't clear.
Speaker:Um, I don't even know if we wanted to launch anything.
Speaker:It was just this perspective on how to do startups or how to do business.
Speaker:So that for me really speaks to that idea of it shouldn't, not knowing where
Speaker:you're going, not knowing what you wanna launch shouldn't stop you from moving
Speaker:forward and being able to, like you said, just tune into what's going on for you.
Speaker:And I know for me that time, creativity, um, impact those
Speaker:were needs, even contribution, maybe respect to, uh, being met.
Speaker:I. In the way that I wanted.
Speaker:And so there was a bit of frustration, which got me going.
Speaker:I know some of the people in, in my group in the program are, you know,
Speaker:finding, actually there's something I'm annoyed about that, you know,
Speaker:there's an injustice or there's a status quo that I wanna fight against.
Speaker:So using that energy to, to move forward in, even in doubt or even,
Speaker:even in spite of not knowing, um, what it might become, I think is so key.
Speaker:Because again, part of the reason we're doing this is people hit a block and they
Speaker:get stuck and then they dunno where to go.
Speaker:So at least having some guide rails.
Speaker:Is useful.
Speaker:Even if you then say, actually now I know what I wanna launch and I shift
Speaker:into that launch energy because the light bulb goes off or you have a conversation
Speaker:and I think that's the beauty of this stuff is you'll never know by sitting
Speaker:still hiding away, but you're definitely.
Speaker:Accelerate that process like we're doing, working out loud and, and
Speaker:hopefully getting some feedback and insight from other people.
Speaker:I'd like to explore that, just that you know, that that part of your
Speaker:story just to maybe illustrate this idea of, uh, the new perspective.
Speaker:Because what, what, the thing that we did do at the beginning of the Happy
Speaker:Startup School and what you designed was the Happy Manifesto was write
Speaker:manifesto, and before that you had been blogging and writing quite a lot
Speaker:and being, and going on social media.
Speaker:What I heard before was this idea of, you talked about frustration and injustice.
Speaker:well, I think there was a personal thing of just not feeling like I was harnessing
Speaker:my creativity in the way that, uh, I was when I was, maybe when we started out
Speaker:with a small studio, just me and you, or when I was freelance, I was brought in
Speaker:as a designer, so I was kind of tapping that need, tapping into that need as we.
Speaker:But the agency more and more, it was a lot of business development,
Speaker:a lot of, um, marketing, managing the guys and the team and, and, um,
Speaker:well, guys and women Fiona as well.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, a lot of managing and, and, um, leading really, which,
Speaker:okay, that's just what you step into.
Speaker:So yeah, there was some needs being met, but really deep down, I think I
Speaker:had the need for creativity and also.
Speaker:Just this desire to really wanna make a mark in someone, I dunno what that
Speaker:was, but to feel like, yeah, I'm really proud of this thing we've created.
Speaker:You know, at the time it was the agency and we just, you know, in essence
Speaker:piggyback off other people's visions.
Speaker:But over time it felt like I wanna put my name to something that I'm
Speaker:proud of, that I feel is more me.
Speaker:And that represents all the things I care about.
Speaker:And again, I didn't have the language at the time of what those things were.
Speaker:We started to work on our values, didn't really have the language of needs.
Speaker:Um, so that was one thing.
Speaker:And I think just.
Speaker:The general narrative about business and particularly startups was very
Speaker:much, this is the only way there is, uh, a thing called Silicon Valley.
Speaker:And that's the thing we look to for all of the right ways to do things.
Speaker:Everyone else in the world is, you know, a kind of microcosm of that.
Speaker:So like accelerators, uh, incubators, funding, you know, all of that stuff.
Speaker:So there's just a general.
Speaker:Assumption that anyone who wants to start up has to do it this way.
Speaker:Um, and more and more we work with businesses and even building
Speaker:our own, we found actually those aren't the kind of businesses that
Speaker:we're, we're helping to build.
Speaker:And those aren't the ones that like me up the ones I wanna work on.
Speaker:The ones that really committed to building something that they're proud
Speaker:of, not just I want to get in this, make a bit of money and then, you know.
Speaker:Move to St. Lucia or something, or go and play golf for the
Speaker:next five years, whatever it is.
Speaker:So just a, a mismatch of values and, and, and visions.
Speaker:So there was, I guess, a, a in intrinsic need and then an external desire to just
Speaker:bang the drum for a different approach and a different perspective, like you said.
Speaker:and I was gonna add onto that the, we had a business model that worked.
Speaker:we could make money off of projects.
Speaker:It was potentially a business.
Speaker:Uh.
Speaker:That you could grow and develop.
Speaker:And we saw other agencies like us and we got onto this idea of being a
Speaker:startup studio and this trying to meet creativity as well as building sort of
Speaker:products and businesses at the same time.
Speaker:And I think that for me, an important part of this was even though that could have
Speaker:been successful, it didn't meet our needs.
Speaker:It wasn't something that.
Speaker:Was, wasn't aligned to our feeling of success.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Because we weren't, to be
Speaker:honest, it would've been a lot easier if we didn't have sort of,
Speaker:if we weren't humans, just like built the business based on paper.
Speaker:And
Speaker:I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull you up on that 'cause that's a judgment on the
Speaker:people who have built the business like that because it isn't so much about not
Speaker:being human is about not being ours.
Speaker:Yeah, well my point being, it wasn't, you know, I'm not saying this is an
Speaker:easy path, but in, I'm just being a bit facetious in terms of from a, I
Speaker:don't know, a business coaches' point of view, looking at our business
Speaker:going, why would you wanna do that?
Speaker:'cause it doesn't make sense.
Speaker:'cause what makes sense is to keep growing the business.
Speaker:so yeah, I say it to kind of provoke, not saying that anyone
Speaker:else who does that can visit.
Speaker:And I think this is, this is the, I would say resistance when
Speaker:we're following our needs, right?
Speaker:Or.
Speaker:In, uh, uh, in Virginia sector, she used the word yearnings.
Speaker:When we're, when we're really tuning into our yearnings, there's an either,
Speaker:um, you realize, oh, this is my need.
Speaker:And then there's a reality check of Am am I, you know, the things that
Speaker:I'm doing, does it meet my need?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And then there's a, an option to, well, even if it doesn't meet my need, but.
Speaker:You know, this can be comfortable, which is something that has been, um,
Speaker:shared by Lucy in the chat a while ago.
Speaker:Like, it, it becomes a, a PA place of comfort.
Speaker:So, because it's a place of comfort, this is what I know to do, this is
Speaker:what I can, you know, learn from others to do, then you keep going at it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So there's, there's different choices that we're afforded when we, um, look at our
Speaker:needs and the actions that we can take.
Speaker:And sometimes, like what also from from the chat, uh, MV engineering says, you
Speaker:know, like maybe the mentality around being a startup and what you need to do
Speaker:as a startup, like the hustle mentality does not really fit with your nature,
Speaker:does not really fit with who you are and what you value and your needs.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:There's a lot of, things to also recalibrate, you know, because
Speaker:we might say, oh, it's so easy.
Speaker:You just think of your needs.
Speaker:No, but there's a lot of recalibration that needs to, um, go into this
Speaker:context of then how do we pursue a life that needs our needs?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I think I wanna talk to that comment.
Speaker:'cause I, I was curious about that.
Speaker:There is.
Speaker:So the tension, one of the tensions that I see, uh, with people in our
Speaker:program is tuning into yourself and what lights you up was one,
Speaker:what's energetic and making money.
Speaker:And then suddenly that's all mixed in because of this idea of making
Speaker:profits from your purpose and passion and all this stuff, which we've
Speaker:been, we've talked about in the past.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:If you're gonna get someone to pay you something, they're not necessarily, unless
Speaker:you're an artist, and this is another conversation, we can have another time.
Speaker:They're not just gonna pay you for doing stuff that you love.
Speaker:' cause there's, they're gonna get something from it.
Speaker:They're gonna support you for a reason because it mal aligns with their values.
Speaker:They're gonna get a benefit from the thing that you do because you're
Speaker:solving a problem, whatever that is.
Speaker:But when we start conflating, all right, is anyone gonna pay me
Speaker:something for something I wanna create?
Speaker:That's when you can get really stuck.
Speaker:And this is why these paths I think are really important is just to
Speaker:start off with this idea of just an action, not a revenue model, not a
Speaker:potential billion dollar unicorn.
Speaker:And action.
Speaker:What happened with us is it was an action.
Speaker:Like Lauren's saying, there was no pro, no product or service involved.
Speaker:There was no kind of like business plan, whatever, no business plan at all.
Speaker:But at the same time, there was an action that was meeting a need.
Speaker:We were lucky.
Speaker:And I think part of it also is because we knew how to run a business.
Speaker:'cause we've run a business.
Speaker:We turned those actions.
Speaker:Into offerings, which then turned into a business, and this is
Speaker:where we are at at the moment.
Speaker:It was a long, 12 year windy, potentially scary journey.
Speaker:A lot of relationships to money issues coming up because for a
Speaker:long time I. We weren't making the money we did as an agency.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But we still persisted.
Speaker:So I think to that question of could not, could it be that not
Speaker:everyone is cut out to a startup?
Speaker:If your definition of startup is Facebook, Twitter, some kind of digital thing,
Speaker:that's gonna make money straight away.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:But if your definition of starting up is just starting up, then
Speaker:everyone can basic up everyone.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So this is a thing of the thing that we.
Speaker:Part of these conversations, I feel is about, is like us telling people we're
Speaker:called the Happy Startup School, but we're not called the Happy Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker:Amazon
Speaker:School.
Speaker:This is our version of startup.
Speaker:But, but Carlos, let's also put it in, in terms of, um, neurobiology, right?
Speaker:What we know about how our brain works and how our brain works is
Speaker:we get the dopamine rush when.
Speaker:Um, you know, we get validated when we do something, when we create something
Speaker:and that's the, that that's what we want.
Speaker:When it comes to taking action, it's creating that dopamine rush
Speaker:and connecting it with, Hey, if I do this, there's something that happens
Speaker:and then you get motivated more.
Speaker:And that's the rewiring that we want to do in our brains.
Speaker:That by doing these actions, we're rewiring our capacity to see
Speaker:possibilities outside of our comfort zone.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And what is even fascinating is they're already even saying, actually, when we
Speaker:move, um, we have hope molecules that goes and rushes through our, you know,
Speaker:through our brain and in our body.
Speaker:So movement in itself as the physiology of movement creates our, uh, you know, or,
Speaker:um, set us for res resilience in a sense.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And this is, this is that, you know, like we have it very much innate
Speaker:already in our body and society and our experiences of how, you know, life is.
Speaker:Somehow conflates with that, you know, because again, that's why we seek comfort.
Speaker:That's why we procrastinate.
Speaker:That's why we, um, you know, try to limit ourselves because of
Speaker:the experiences that we've had.
Speaker:So, creating action is allowing our brains to rewire and connect, because what, you
Speaker:know, what fires together, wires together.
Speaker:So the more that we take action, the more that we see possibilities for ourselves.
Speaker:And I think what I've always, you know, this whole thing like who's our niche?
Speaker:How, what's the, how do we.
Speaker:Kind of, um, talk about what we do.
Speaker:And it isn't necessarily a, I dunno, a demographic, but I, more and more
Speaker:I've come to believe it's about what you're talking to there, Lana's.
Speaker:Like there's something holding us back.
Speaker:And it isn't, knowledge isn't skills, it isn't even money.
Speaker:Uh, and that's where I think what we're trying to tap into this lower,
Speaker:deeper level journey of a startup.
Speaker:We can talk to you about pricing, marketing, creating products, telling
Speaker:your, all of that stuff, no problem.
Speaker:We can do that.
Speaker:But what we are very sensitive to, and this is what we're deepening our work
Speaker:in, is actually there are hidden blockers or even visible blockers that can only
Speaker:be overcome through a bit of reflection and more importantly, community.
Speaker:And this is kind of, uh, why I think we are, I think walking the
Speaker:walk in a sense or walking the talk is like, we need community.
Speaker:That's why we started this thing.
Speaker:That's the whole point.
Speaker:Happy Startup School existed and so, and we know because we need it.
Speaker:We've seen the benefit of it for people like us who also need it in business.
Speaker:Well linked to, The tiny experiments work is, is, and like you said, the the
Speaker:stuff we don't see is habit building.
Speaker:Really.
Speaker:It's such a big part of, of our work.
Speaker:It's why we do our program over, over five months.
Speaker:Not to just do this kind of short, sharp burst of acceleration
Speaker:and then fall off a cliff.
Speaker:But how do you build sustainable habits that feel safe and feel,
Speaker:feel like, like, like I said, you are, you're moving forward and also
Speaker:there's like an energy exchange.
Speaker:I feel like you said there's, there's something in the body.
Speaker:But there's also this exchange when people see.
Speaker:We're doing something that we're moving forward and they
Speaker:can kind of engage with it.
Speaker:And even if it is baby steps and it's still in its infancy, it's not, um,
Speaker:fully formed, I think that's what in some ways and dears people to an idea or to
Speaker:a path is they feel like they can add to this rather than it's done, it's ready.
Speaker:And I don't have anything add to make it better.
Speaker:I'm curious about the energetic aspects of this work that we do.
Speaker:I. Because there's something about, um, I dunno, giving a talk for the
Speaker:first time or just launching a product.
Speaker:there's something that can really hit your nervous system.
Speaker:It's, you know, when you're selling something for the first time.
Speaker:And I think there's something about a, a community but also.
Speaker:Uh, a longer journey that helps us regulate over a longer period, so the
Speaker:launch isn't so scary, isn't so big.
Speaker:And our bodies are better suited to.
Speaker:Lana, you are a much better expert on this than I am.
Speaker:I was just about to say e even for, for seasoned people who have been giving
Speaker:workshops and trainings, we, we would, you know, we would experience, uh, sense
Speaker:of resistance or Trepidation and anxiety.
Speaker:It's, it's, but part of the human experience.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Of, um, and this is why I love Tara Moore.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:Work on playing big.
Speaker:She defined it as, oh, we have a la uh, we Jewish, um, culture.
Speaker:They have a language around the different type of types of fears.
Speaker:And for her understanding what is this fear coming from is very important
Speaker:because there's the fear that holds us back, or there's the fear that we
Speaker:face when we're leaping, you know, so.
Speaker:What, what kind of fear is that?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And for us to be able to understand that better allows us to also understand,
Speaker:okay, then how can I resource myself?
Speaker:How can I get myself settled so that I can be able to do the work that I need to do?
Speaker:And what you said, what do you mean?
Speaker:You say Lana,
Speaker:settled bodies.
Speaker:Settled bodies,
Speaker:exactly.
Speaker:I, I feel like
Speaker:we're building a community of settled bodies.
Speaker:That's why we have a fluffy launch.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So
Speaker:well it came out of, I think where people are at the program at the moment is
Speaker:about to sort of release their ideas.
Speaker:There's a vulnerability there, there's a fear there.
Speaker:Um, and going back to that thing I said at the start about, you know,
Speaker:the hard launch is the hustle.
Speaker:It is the late nights, it's.
Speaker:Praying and hoping, and you know, it's a big bet, isn't it?
Speaker:Um, the soft launch is obviously where most people in our
Speaker:community find themselves.
Speaker:They try and test ideas.
Speaker:They try and sort of poke their head out slowly.
Speaker:but the fluffy launch I see is doing it in community, so doing it with
Speaker:support at every turn, and not just in community, as in I release it
Speaker:to a community before I go public.
Speaker:This idea of circles of connection, so starting with one of us like that,
Speaker:your mentor, then sharing it with your small buddy group of five or six people.
Speaker:Then sharing it with a wider cohort, and then maybe sharing it with the wider
Speaker:community and then going to LinkedIn or wherever you used to share it to.
Speaker:So this idea of safety and support and friendly.
Speaker:Um, critical friends, let's call them friends that are there to support
Speaker:you, but also give you good advice to move forward and, and so you just feel
Speaker:more confident and courageous through that process rather than taking a
Speaker:big bet on this and it feels scary.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:And it is, well, finding the right people to, to witness the work.
Speaker:So it doesn't feel like they're just about to stamp on your
Speaker:idea every time you say a word.
Speaker:Um, let's close off, uh, some final thoughts, uh,
Speaker:reflections, um, before we close,
Speaker:for me, I'm really more into, uh, fractals, you know, the work
Speaker:that we do with ourselves, um, reverberates to those that we want
Speaker:to touch, those who want to serve.
Speaker:So this is deep work.
Speaker:yeah, I think for me.
Speaker:Like what we talked about today just gives a language and um, some kind of sense to
Speaker:something that's quite chaotic, which is change and transitions and new beginnings.
Speaker:And so I find it helpful to, to think in those terms.
Speaker:And also because we've got so much experience of working with people,
Speaker:I can start to see when I talk to people where they might fit into
Speaker:some of these camps that we've talked about at the beginning anyway.
Speaker:And certainly like where they're at now.
Speaker:So I find it helpful.
Speaker:I'd be curious to see how other people find it as we go,
Speaker:go on this journey with them.
Speaker:so the thing I, we didn't talk as much about but uh, sticking with me
Speaker:is the idea of healthy commitments.
Speaker:because this whole thing about doing something intentionally,
Speaker:it's like, who is it for?
Speaker:Ultimately, because I think, I feel sometimes an unhealthy commit commitment
Speaker:is to do it because someone told you to do it or you should do it.
Speaker:'cause that's how you launch a business.
Speaker:As opposed to I'm committing to myself, I'm committing to the people I wanna
Speaker:serve and that's why I need to push through imposter syndrome, fear of
Speaker:failure, the uncertainty unknown.
Speaker:Uh, and I'm, I'm willing to experience that.
Speaker:And this is again, maybe part of the reason why we have
Speaker:settled bodies in our community.
Speaker:Helping people habituate to the uncertainty because they are
Speaker:committed to support others.
Speaker:And I love the ripple effects, Lana, in terms of the, the what we, how we turn
Speaker:up, ripples out to other people and how we are feeling now are the repercussions
Speaker:of the ripples of the people around us.
Speaker:So if you are scared to launch something new or you know you've
Speaker:never really done something, just take a look at the environment.
Speaker:Maybe you need to reroute, Check out Lana's talk and rerouting to
Speaker:understand why you need to do that, um, search for Happy Startup Summer Camp
Speaker:rerouting Lana, and you'll find it.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Thank you very much everyone.
Speaker:Really.
Speaker:Thanks everyone.
Speaker:Appreciate that, and I hope you got useful and helpful.
