220: Not Wrong, Just Not Ready

Do you ever find yourself asking, “why isn't this working for me when it works for everyone else?”

You do all the “right” things and still feel stuck, and the most painful part is how fast that turns into self-blame.  Today’s episode is your permission slip to stop blaming and start listening to something deeper instead.

“Wrong” and “not ready” are not the same, yet when something goes sideways, they get collapsed and everything goes straight to ‘wrong’. Very few people ever consider how timing might be involved.

In this episode, Maren & Stephanie unpack a different possibility: maybe you’re not doing it wrong, maybe you’re not ready yet, or what you’re reaching for isn’t ready to meet you. They start by naming the pressure for what it is: impatience, frustration, and the quiet fear that something must be wrong with us because it looks so easy for someone else. 

As always, they share stories and anecdotes from their own lives. Today, they use nature as a direct teacher for timing and alignment, including a great metaphor that opens a soulful leadership lens on:

  • sustainable growth
  • burnout prevention
  • resilience 
  • self-trust
  • healthy systems
  • and more

To make it practical, they share a practice that creates new neural pathways, gets you out of right and wrong thinking, and helps you connect to the timing that makes life feel magnetic again. 

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REFERENCES:

15:56 Otto Scharmer’s 4 Levels of Listening

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