simple shui | playing BIG
if you haven’t read tara mohr’s Playing Big, make that happen. soon.
she shares a visualization she does with her executive coaching clients – asking them to imagine meeting themselves 20 years in the future. and in this exercise, they are guided to notice everything about this person: their features, their home; how they spend their time.
when mohr herself did this for the first time, she says:
i recognized her. she was a composite of all the most important parts of me – the minimalism, the simplicity, a kind of feeling of solitude. one morning, sitting in silence, i looked around my living room and realized there was only one object in that room – an unusual chair made out of a tamarind tree trunk – that she would have had in her home. only one thing reflected her style – which of course was my true taste and style, which i hadn’t yet had the courage to express in my house. i started to follow the possibility, which then seemed radical, that i could create a home full of things i loved as much as that tamarind chair. choices – seemingly superficial ones like furniture and clothes – mingled together as i kept asking “well, which choice here – a or b – would bring me closer to living her life?”
this is how we are pulled by our visions instead of pushing for markers of success.
LIVE WITH WHAT YOU LOVE. IT MATTERS.
xo
