All-You-Can-Eat Information
Information paralysis and letting yourself catch up while you grow.
We basically live in the era of All-You-Can-Eat Information. (And I’m talking about the good kind, not the divisive, untrue, awful stuff). Think early days Vegas when people drove and flew from everywhere just for a chance to spend hours at a buffet where they were determined to squeeze value out of the world until they just couldn’t take it anymore. Have you noticed that this narrative and marketing ploy is mostly gone from culture now? People figured it out pretty quickly that most could only eat so much at once and it was nicer to order a high quality meal than eat a lot of moderate level food (I’m being generous, sometimes it was gross).
But we haven’t figured that out yet about information and how we grow and build our lives. If you have an idea or an interest right now you can be bombarded with information about it. You can research yourself into paralysis, continually adding in more and more information and taking less action. In our all-you-can-eat information buffet no one takes your plate away, you never have the opportunity to get to the end of a book, and have to figure out how jump off at your own spot. And instead of teaching and supporting each other on how to do that, we start reaching for people to tell us what to do because there is relief in that.
I’ve been thinking a lot this summer about how overwhelmed we all are and what possible solutions could be. The answer is not to stop building what you dream. And I’m seeing too many do that. It’s not your dreams that are too much. We need what you are moved to bring into this world more than ever!
We haven’t given ourselves time to digest and act on the information we have at our fingertips. Our nervous systems have no time to integrate what we are, with really great intentions, fire-hosing at ourselves. Even in the mentoring and coaching world in an effort to provide value—because how could it be valuable to help people achieve their goals outside of corporations—sessions and courses are overwhelming in their depth and breadth. If we try to create new things with old methods we are going to harm ourselves and inevitably others.
I had a brilliant business development client session once where we went there deeply. It was profound and we knew exactly what was required to move forward. And we only used 30 minutes of a 2 hour session and we agreed to stop. We knew that if we pushed forward to “get the value” we would have broken what we did. We would both have been overwhelmed with going past what we were capable of acting from.
What if we could give ourselves permission to do the work, but at a sustainable pace for our whole selves? To remind ourselves we get to consent to the way we engage with our own lives. I know for sure we have to invest in models that do things differently than try to drink from the firehose. So I’ve decided to try something different with all this fall energy. I want to offer a more realistic and nervous-system aware environment to support you in your growth.
Throughout the month of September I am offering UNLIMITED 15 minute mentoring sessions through the end of the year!
1 x 30 minute Kick Off Call to get us oriented with what you might be trying to achieve. (Business, art, a new career, life pivots whatever you want to do and feel supported progress on by the end of the year.
Unlimited x 15 minute sessions. You receive the recording and summary of each session. Once you take action on what you’ve decided is the digestible action from the session, you can book your next session. (Don’t worry if you get stuck or change direction, we can get you reset).
1 x 30 minute State of the Union call in early December where we talk about what has happened so far and what might be next for you. (You’ll still be able to book 15 minute sessions as available until the holidays).
Cost $2500 CDN which means it’s totally on sale if you use USD or GBP! Purchase necessary to start, but if we don’t click at the Kick Off Call you can get a refund then (minus payment processing fees).
The sessions will be on Zoom.
Availability for sessions: M-Th 10-4 CST (let me know if you are non-North American and we can find something that works better for you).
If you’d like someone to help you move forward with consent aware intention, to support you to distill clarity about what to do next, and celebrate you while you make progress towards what you want—I’d love to be that person. Reply or Comment and I’ll get us moving forwards.
Susie