To everyone who's playing along with the Daily Profit Power Hour: I am not doing my Power Hour this morning because I feel like I've been doing Power Weekend at the conference gathering, having conversations, spotting opportunities, and nurturing relationships. But I do miss my daily deep dive into doing the actions that are just revenue-generating. I know that @Wendy Davey and @Erica Ashton are playing along - let us know how you are getting on. If you don't know what it is, you can hear more about it in this post about podcasting, (and it's not just about podcasting)

It’s been a very mixed few days for me. Yes there’s been lots of love and insight and incredible connections. I mean super incredible. As I sit enjoying my coffee, playing hooky (as Elsie Spittle used to say) in the warmth of the Spanish sun , feelings of gratitude light up every cell in my body. And I as I percolate on what I’m hearing, I realise that the gratitude is not just for the feelings I like. But also for the feelings I haven’t been too keen on. The client that cancelled with ill will - that email hurt. Stung for a while. Until I found my humility. And then the ‘honest’ conversation a peer felt they needed to have with me. Old feelings of lack, of being scared, of wanting to defend. Arose and caught in my throat. Again humility restored me. Owning my part without falling on my sword ⚔️ It doesn’t mean those feelings left my body - the cells felt the thinking they came from. But something that’s been present within in me is that ‘this is growth’ this is the edge of what I know, this is the space from which creativity arises. From where I’m called to step into my power in a stronger, more grounded way. This is what it means to be in the unknown. It’s not meant to be comfortable. And then the story of the spider. 🕷️ Barb Patterson, an incredible speaker, entrepreneur and human being, told of the spider who is not born with all the silk thread inside of them. They have to mobilise and move. They first have to mobilise the elements within them to create the chemical changes. They then have to move and physically pull the liquid out of their body to align the molecules into a solid thread. I saw that the painful feelings, the doubt, the insecurity, the imposter syndrome - they are the chemicals that we can use to poison ourselves and shut down. Or we can use to mobilise our unique abilities to turn pain into silk. Once mobilised we then have to move to allow the thread to come out of us. It doesn’t do anything kept inside. In my story that could mean an appropriate response to an email that serves the client and me. An apology to someone who has felt hurt by my behaviour and an opportunity for a reset. A surrender to the feelings without attachment. Not necessarily easy things to do. But from within humility there is no vulnerability.

Office hours today are cancelled due to the fact that I will be being interviewed at that time for a documentary around my work with Three Principles and prisons. However, if you are planning to come and have questions, please feel free to post in this thread, and I will answer all the questions. Thank you very much for understanding 💘

I want to share something great with you. My local drama group put out an urgent message last night because one of the key actors in their play was unwell and they needed someone to take the stage and read the character in with only two hours notice. I knew I could do it and stepped up to the role, putting on the costume and doing a very good characterisation. This challenge has been very helpful when comparing the knowing, confident feeling I had about taking it on with that of my debilitating anxiety and self consciousness I experience at other times. For the first time I'm aware that I can be comfortable in the unknown. That's huge for me! And I so enjoyed stepping up and doing the part. There was very little difficulty in it for me. What came to me was something I have heard many times before, but I heard it deeper, which is, I am not my thinking. Pretty cool aye!

I’m very proud of @Louise Knighton who has written her first ever business case. She definitely experienced growing pains and uncomfortably but she kept resetting. Asked for support. Asked questions and went again. She even enjoyed it in the end. Here’s her email from last night: “Thank you for your help with this. Initially it was hard but I really enjoyed completing the business case.. 🙂 Louise“ Please join in and send Louise some love 💕