Drawing this card this morning has given me a jolt of boldness that I required to take responsibility for my choices and refrain from shrinking in on myself and diminishing the light of my enthusiasm. I have a few meetings scheduled today that relate to my virtues work. These meetings potentially may help me chart a course forward and generate some much desired work to get this project off the ground and moving. At a question and answer session yesterday in a course I am taking, the leader had emphatically stated that the programme he had launched to help people access their spiritual potential had been deliberately marketed with language that erased any reference to spirituality because this language is offensive to business professionals. Instead they had used language that only related to the scientific aspects of the work though the spiritual benefits are part and parcel of the outcomes. I was a little sad by this and then doubted my own proposal as I had quite openly referred to my services being wholly spiritual. Practicing initiative reminds me that to be original takes courage. I want to be able to shift our language to embracing the spiritual side of life and the science behind it all - it all works in harmony. This may present a challenge from one person's perspective but for me it is an opportunity to create conversations in new ways, to enable our language to develop in ways that we have been resistant to in the past and need to learn to embrace, if it is we are to make this world a better place. I was very happy with the tone I used in my proposal and I choose to be a pioneer in a world that is spiritually and morally bankrupt. It stands to reason that new things need to be learned, and that we need to adopt new ways of communicating. Perhaps my originality will set me apart from others. It is time for an unconventional approach.
Yes. You have said it, it is now call into being! Be the pioneer for spiritual and moral practices in the professional business area. 😀
A similar thing happened to me when I was writing my masters thesis. I was researching feminist theorists and many of the current ones used spiritual language and references. I needed to include that as it was central to what I was reading. However my committee refused to allow that, saying I had to use only empirical language. The issue actually caused my fibromyalgia and I had to stop.