Life’s ‘half time’ is a season. Have you been there already? Sucked the juice out of the orange, felt its sharpness and flavour, taken a breath and walked straight back onto the pitch for the second half?
It’s not about age is it? For some of us half time will come in our 30s, some in our 50s or even later, it’s more about those amplified moments which collectively, gradually or joltingly, point to the truth that Oranges (what we knew, or used to do, or wanted so keenly) Are Not The Only Fruit. There’s more…
That time, when through the haze, our eyes begin to see another way, more fruit, that there’s a second half ahead that’s juicier.
Rain on, juice.
And it’s raining not just on you or your immediates. There is something else that needs to be watered – a people, a movement, a truth.
So skip a beat or two, o heart, (hoping that wasn’t the jolt in the first place!) and get curious about what’s next for you and what’s needed to imprint the world with your ‘one thing’.
One thing?
Surely not – as multi-passionate women there are so many jolly good things to be doing. And yet, when it comes to it, we live and we sing our lifesong. What would it be like if that song was one of resonance and joy, where our time is spent focused on the thing that most audaciously uses our gifts, most fully expresses our big-time values?
My one thing is releasing women into their one thing. I’m a big-time-it’s-time-birth-that-thing doula; that means I’m with you, I get you (as well as the voices that tell you you cant do it), I want it so much for you that as your one thing blooms I shout from the rooftops with you, I hold you, challenge you, champion you as you birth it (and tell me you cant do it), and then we marvel and laugh together at the brilliance of your one thing and how you’ve become a community/global groupie with all the other brilliantly bold human beings who share your ‘one thing’ and are making an impact on the world alongside you.
And if you don’t know what your one thing might be – and life feels a little like a squished mulberry underfoot, even better. It sounds like you’re entering half time. Take a breather and decide to pick the mulberries before they are over-ripe, under-foot. (Health warning: tasty though they are, they play havoc with gut if consumed too quickly). Take your time, invest in what’s next. Explore a coaching relationship with me to support you in your discoveries and commitments.
And start now by answering this question just for you: If, at the end of your life, you could choose one thing you would MOST want others to say about you, what would it be?
In a sense, it’s your epitaph…or your balloon in the sky, evident to all*
2 things now and 2 only
- Join the conversation..I’m intrigued by what ‘half time’ means for women, and have a sense that as bold mothers, we may enter half time earlier than most men in parallel with the transition to motherhood, as we sift our values, needs and priorities. Is it too male a concept to identify with? What’s your experience? I’d love to witness your responses in the box below (or bubble to the side, depending on how you’re viewing this).
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It’s great to have Kate alongside when you are finding the thing that you want to do. Everybody needs someone who will see it from your point of view and enthuse with you!