This is a work day
Those of you whose work it is to wake the dead, get up. This is a work day.
The beautiful coin of now slaps down in your hand.
Start the drumbeat.
You, heart, closed up in a chest, open.
You, feet, it is time to dance.
Do you understand?
The beloved is here.
I’ve been thinking about the first Rock Your Genius club newsletter for weeks now, and I’m still not sure I’m starting in the best place. (What can I say here that isn’t covered in the program?)
When I sat down to compose the issue, I wrote down the four questions Jason and Caroline Zook ask when critiquing and improving a website:1
What do you do?
Are you for me?
How can you help me?
What’s my next step?
I’ll start there (ish).
In the simplest of terms, Rock Your Genius is about doing your best work, living your purpose, and making a difference in the world by being your true and best self.
The goal of this club, newsletter, program, and work is to help as many people as possible achieve that.
The aim for this newsletter and club is to focus on self-expression, creativity, and spirituality, more specifically, where those three things overlap, because if you can find that overlap, that’s your genius.
It’s the point where your interest and enthusiasm meet to create something new in the world.
But—this is my life’s work, and I still struggle with it.
How do you know if you’re on the right track?
How do you find and maintain enthusiasm and motivation to get big things done? (And living out your life’s purpose is definitely a big thing.)
How do you know if you’re living on purpose and with purpose and that you’re living out the highest and best use of your life?
And how do you find the energy and resources to follow your purpose when there are so many things vying for your attention every minute of every day?
I don’t know the answers to any of those questions for sure, but I do feel fairly confident that if we don’t give up, we’ll eventually find out, because I definitely believe the words of Rumi: “What you seek is seeking you.”
Your genius is seeking you as much as you are seeking it, and that counts for something. In fact, I believe it counts for more than any amount of work and seeking you yourself can do.
Why?
Because your genius comes from something bigger than you—God, Source, Force, the Universe, Spirit, or whatever you want to call it. It has everything you need.
So if you’ll just (in the words of Henry David Thoreau) “go confidently in the direction of your dreams,”2 I feel certain you’ll find it.
The problem is, we get lulled into comfort, distraction, sleep-walking, and complacency, which is why I included the Rumi poem at the beginning. I’ll repeat it here:
Those of you whose work it is to wake the dead, get up. This is a work day.
The beautiful coin of now3 slaps down in your hand.
Start the drumbeat.
You, heart, closed up in a chest, open.
You, feet, it is time to dance.
Do you understand?
The beloved is here.
That, I believe, is our job—yours and mine—to shake each other awake and remind each other as often as it takes that the Beloved is here.4
We have work to do in this world.
And I think we should get busy.
A better future depends on it—yours, mine, ours, and theirs—and if as many of us as possible will do our work, we might just stand a chance of making it happen.
So get up. This is a work day!
As for next steps, here are some possibilities:
I’m going to begin writing here at the Rock Your Genius club about all the things that get in our way (and how we might overcome them),
You can join the Rock Your Genius program (inside scoop, it’s in test pilot / BETA mode (and FREE!) for the first so many dreamers, doers, and creative pursuers, so you might want to act fast—here’s the link to take advantage of that), and
When you get there, introduce yourself and let me know all the things that get in your way when it comes to living your best life, living on purpose and with purpose, and rocking your unique genius.
I hope to see you there!
More to come.
Amber
Launch strategist & lead mentor at Rock Your Genius
Shopkeeper, reader, writer, & wobbly guide at Maison d’Evangeline
B2B website best practices by Jason and Caroline Zook
The Henry David Thoreau quote in full is this: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” And, it should be pretty obvious, I couldn’t agree more.
“The beautiful coin of now slaps down in your hand.” That’s all we have, now, but invest enough of those coins wisely, and I think they’ll get us where we’re trying to go.
Genius, Creative Spirit, Source, God—again, whatever you want to call it.