An Inconvenient Truth

Wow, just finished Watching An Inconvenient Truth. What an eye opener. The Density and Intensity of the whole world is just tangible... waiting for people to wake up! And engage!

This is a metaphor for how I feel about women in leadership... this journey I am on now. I know that we need to awaken. Awaken to our own potential, awaken to our own brilliance, awaken the possibility, inevitability's really of more.

Come to know the real true magnificent being I truly am and by claiming, owning it, living it, the world shifts.

If enough of us become awake and hear our authentic sound, and live it... the world as we know it will cease to be and a whole new future will unfold before our very eyes.


This shift of consciousness has occurred in the past, Al Gore depicted many examples of it in our history in this film... it will occur again. I know it needs to occur "now" and I know I can play a role in manifesting this.

As I was watching this film the notes I jotted down as important enough for me to jot down were when Al Gore was talking about all of the natural disasters happening in the world recently, floods, droughts, fires, Hurricanes, Tsunamis... he made a statement that I wrote down, "...nature hike through the book of revelations" That statement stuck with me. It was very profound and really served to convey the sense of intensity and seriousness of the issue.

The one major statement that keeps drifting in my consciousness is from the Declaration of Intention... "If not me, who?"

This has always attracted me. In my journey this past year in particular. If I wait around for my future to happen, it is going to happen to me... If I get up and act, in whatever way is meaningful to me, I will shape my future.


The other thing Al Gore said that resonated with me was when he was talking about being a boy before he knew the difference between fun and work... I wrote "There doesn't need to be a difference between fun and work". This leads to a whole other conversation that I have recently begun to explore... how much would it suck if you defined yourself by your work?

As I have come to "know" my own self... my authentic self, I have also come to know, my work does not define me... I define my work. I know that I can do wonderful things in my department, things I am passionate about, engaging in shaping my model of the world. I am also mindful of if there is ever a time when my department no longer creates space to sustain me moving through my world authentically, I know my story will continue elsewhere.


Who knows where my future leads... for now I know it is within the department I am, I have something unique to offer, me. The decloaked me, standing alone, stepped out of my box never to be put back in, fully aware of the power of my unlimited potential and I can see, the brilliance within you... I am calling on it, looking for some more playmates who will awaken and discover their authentic voices and call back "I'm here, I'm awake, I'm shaping my life not allowing others to shape it for me".

My journey is still very young... the excitement I felt at the beginning of it is still very prevalent... it is just bigger now. There is always more, and thank god for that...