In the unknown

One year ago, I concluded my career chapter as a nonprofit executive, and I stepped into the unknown. I wasn’t sure what I’d find there, but I trusted it was a place I was called to explore.

I remember waking up to an empty calendar. It was such a stark contrast from the back-to-back, meeting-filled days that often stretched into evenings and late nights. What would I do with such an opening?

I decided that before I could effectively move into a new job, I needed to take a conscious pause in my life to confront the paradigm that was guiding my decisions and actions. My goal was to restore and deepen the connection and alignment between my mind, body, heart, and soul.

In this pause, this stillness, this silence, I was able to listen more deeply to the inner knowing that resided within me. I began to build new rituals and new routines to help me step into a more embodied way of living and leading. I learned how to allow the full range of my emotions and experiences, and to honor their helpful instruction and insights.

It has been a challenging year in so many ways, yet somehow–every challenge along the way has added up to me feeling a level of love, vitality, and creativity that is unlike anything I’ve experienced before. I now have a renewed and restored wholeness, and it’s from this wholeness that I can allow what wants to emerge next. 

I decided earlier this year that, instead of going to work for another organization, I would start my own. On the first day of spring, I gave it the name Piñata Possible and dedicated it to the limitless potential that lives within all of us, just waiting to break free. 

As it turns out, the unknown is home to infinite possibilities. When we have the courage to step into it, we find that the breakdowns make possible the breakthroughs.