Tell-Tale Signs You Have Entered Liberation School
By Melanie Benson Strick | October 6th, 2009I’m wondering….have you ever had a time in which you felt like everything you had worked so hard for was falling away no matter
how hard you pushed or tried to keep it on track?
Or maybe you are working harder than ever but people are not responding. Your cash flow dries up and clients are dropping faster than flies.
Or perhaps you have entered into the proverbial “dark night of the soul” and you find yourself exhausted, emotionally distraught and completely freaked out?
These are three tell-tale signs you have entered Liberation school. If this is you, let me be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS. You are in the midst of a powerful experience where you are being liberated from a mediocre business and/or life that you have become comfortable in.
The reason it hurts is because you got stuck there. And like ripping a band aid off a hairy arm, it hurts. But it’s temporary.
I’ve recently undergone my own personal transformation. In the middle of it I turned to my friend Michele Christensen for some coaching and she said to me, “Melanie, congratulations. You’ve entered “Liberation School.”
“But I don’t want to be in Liberation School” was my response. I’ve built up something really good. I LIKE IT!!!! (Child like tantrum feelings arising…breathe, breathe, breathe.)
“Yes, but you were not playing the game at the level you are meant to. You got distracted with other people’s priorities.” (Argh, dang it, I know this one!)
Sound familiar?
We enter Liberation School when we go unconscious to our authentic, highest purpose and try to fill ego-based needs, or just get by with the basics. The more we fight it, the more it hurts.
Now let’s explore how to make it through Liberation School without going crazy.
First, accept it and surrender. You have to accept that somehow you got off course and you are being guided back to your truth. Your true calling, your more authentic gifts, your right path. To shorten your stay in Liberation School you have to stop fighting it and surrender to the journey. There is a learning here to make you more powerful.
Second, explore the learnings. You have gifts waiting for you in Liberation School. If you explore these gifts and come to embrace the learnings it will propel you beyond your wildest dreams of success and happiness. If you are not sure what the learnings are, then get coaching support. A good coach is trained to help you understand these learnings.
Third, make a new decision. My good friend Stephan Stavrakis told me once that the fastest way to end a dark night of the soul is to make a new decision. The new decision I made was to embrace where I had gotten off track and create a way for people to be wildly successful while BEING 100% REAL!
Hence the launch of The Get Real Revolution. A place where people create wildly fulfilling businesses simply by getting connected to what is real with themselves, their prospects and their clients. My new decision got me excited for the first time in months. My passion came back to life. My new decisions feel really aligned with who I am at my core…not what the experts have told me I SHOULD be in order to attract the right clients. I’m happier.
Now, what’s your new decision? Maybe you just don’t know it yet but you know you just want to get out of Liberation School. That’s cool too…but I invite you to share it below. It’s the first step to a powerful and revitalized you that won’t be affected by what’s happening around you.
I’d also like to invite you to invite the people in your life who are ready for real, juicy, powerful, positive, inspiring connections within the business community. Invite them to participate live in the Get Real Revolution with us. Let’s build our new community together and have fun!
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