This week I’ve been working on a new business plan for a relaunch of Another Door.
It has felt like time for refresh for a while. I’ve got flipcharts, post it notes, notebooks full of ideas, process maps, concepts. So many I wasn’t sure where to start. So just keep layering up the ideas, and more ideas.
The other thing I’ve been doing is studying the art of making ideas happen. I talk to too many people with brilliant ideas that never happen to not dig further into this. And with overflowing flipcharts of my own it made sense to go through with this curiosity.
One of the things that my studies reveal is this moment of ‘Settling’.
You’ve stirred up all the leaves, created loads of dust, lots of potential, even good energy, but now it’s the moment to step back and let it settle.
When we’ve had the energy to start creating ideas we often just go with the energy, that momentum and start to take action.
James Webb Young refers to this kind of settling, ‘you now make absolutely no effort of a direct nature. You drop the whole subject and you forgot about it’. James points out how Sherlock Holmes used to do this with precision when, right in the middle of a case, he’d take Watson off to the theatre, much to Watson’s frustration.
But settling is exactly what is needed to make the next best move.
When you can hand over to your subconscious.
When you can delegate the next step to your greater self.
So. If you have a whirl of stuff going on. You’ve whipped up a storm of ideas, possibilities, choices, thoughts.
It’s now the time to step back. And let things settle.
I’d love to know what you find when the dust settles.
eleanor