Grace loves speed

and it often comes off the back of shame

In my last blog post I shared the premise that grace can do the heavy lifting on behalf of us; grace meaning ‘an elegance of movement’ that has us feel that life is happening FOR us.

The story that I shared of my client in that blog post continues this week. Let me give you a quick recap first.

Ten years ago when he launched his first business, his first big client turned up at precisely the right moment that allowed him to commit $50K to fit out a new office space. That client turned up again last week asking for a meeting - at precisely the right moment once again as he is about to launch a new business. Just magic.

Well he met them on Tuesday. They loved his renewed focus and said there was nobody else they wanted to work with. He submitted a proposal yesterday morning for quite a significant investment and 45 minutes later he received a message from their team to onboard him.

Forty five minutes later after he sent the proposal.

Grace not only does the heavy lifting, but grace also loves speed.

Now let me remind you that this client went through some intense moments of very public failure in the last few years. The initial purpose of our work together this time around has been to hold that failure and shame until he could see its sacred purpose - what it wants to be in service to in the bigger picture. He is an educator and now fully owns that failure is an inherent player to the game of purpose, innovation and true success and will lead upfront with this in his methodology.

This meeting was his litmus test. Where there any threads of shame left within him? Or was there only great reverence for the whole of his life, including that very public failure?

I shared with him that grace not only did the heavy lifting - but grace did it with speed - for him to really ‘get’ that the story of failure and shame was now complete and that the next generation of him is well and truly here.

As I said, just magical.

One more point I want to make.

In the world of automation, you cannot systemise grace.

It’s ironic really because I have just engaged a new coach for myself to help me systemise the way that I nurture the current and growing community. I am a huge sharer. It’s one of my zones of genius and it never feels like ‘work’. In fact I dedicate my Fridays to writing and podcasting because I love to. And I’m going to get smarter by using technology to share consistently, even when I’m on holidays.

I see many service providers lean on automative models to help them scale. And they certainly can. But scaling will not occur if there isn’t a sense of wholeness within based on a solid sense of self-value. And just like my client that deeply rooted self-value arrived because of his decision to risk his self-identity including his shame in service to a greater vision…..and he did the work (which wasn’t always easy) until shame no longer had a hold of him.

And then grace came knocking.

No automated system. Just him and his journey back home.

I always love the simplicity of this. I think that’s why I get so fired up about the transformative and sometimes immediate results that come from leaning into our self-value, knowing, intuition trust, faith and grace and taking 100% personal responsibility for our lives……that the answers lie within ourselves firstly and foremostly and without that, nothing changes.

So when you are feeling shame or that you have failed, I invite you to look at it through a different lens - that grace (and speed) are on the other side of shame and the only way of getting there is ‘to do the work’ so that what you’ve held in judgment is transformed until there is nothing left but love.

If this is you, please reach out. I really do feel a lot of pride by which our return home to love and the tangible results that occur from this place including health, finances, purpose, business and relationships often happen with grace and speed.