Active creator: Recognizing we can place energy, intention and choices that shape and create our lives.

We are creating our lives whether we acknowledge it or not. This of course does not mean we can control everything, but it does mean how we engage, show-up and the choices we make have an impact on our lives and the lives of others.

The first and often hardest step towards being a consciously active creator of our life is allowing ourselves to move through fear. To see that it possibly isn't as powerful or accurate as we think it is or that we need to wait for it's absence before taking the first step. I talk to countless innovators, people experiencing success, taking vulnerable steps in relationships and towards change who all can say despite any successes they experience it is a continual facing of fears. That the feeling of vulnerability, risk taking and allowing ourselves to be seen, possibly make mistakes, or "fail" does not go away. We just give it less power over us.

Why is fear of failure so powerful? We have allowed it to define us negatively instead of seeing the more accurate frame that we are allowing ourselves to risk, stretch, grow, try new things, actually take a step, be seen, and show up.

Showing up is a powerful experience of feeling alive and connected to our lives and others and often described as feeling like "waking up" however in this we also feel more aware of the tensions of vulnerability. This awareness however uncomfortable it can be let's us know we're doing something that actually requires us to show up.

There is a moment where we allow ourselves the what if? and maybe I can do this.... Please go with that.