Imagine you are a child with a nail gun.
Imagine you are building a home.
You are a child with no knowledge of strength, electricity, plumbing, framing, or materials. Or the environment.
Imagine knowing nothing about building a strong home.
Imagine, one day, you grew up.
You realize you’ve built this home as a child.
It’s served you well and brought you to this moment.
Maybe you’re successful.
Maybe you’re powerful.
Maybe you have everything you want.
Or maybe you realize something deeper is missing.
You cannot describe it, but you can feel it in your body.
You can feel it when you're with other people and when you go about your day.
In your home, the electricity, plumbing, framing, and materials for your home work, but still, something is missing.
Imagine yourself as an adult living in this small home you built as a child.
This is what we all do.
Then, one day, we decide to call it “reality.”
I am talking about our beliefs and our habits that make up our world.
Now, imagine home construction.
Imagine removing and tearing down your home to rebuild it to serve you better.
Now, you understand strength. You understand your wants. You understand the environment.
Imagine taking off the plywood.
Imagine breaking down the roof.
Imagine the destruction. Maybe, the chaos.
Imagine your home with no roof. You can see through the walls laying the two-by-four foundation.
Imagine, physically standing in your dark living room at night, looking towards your roof, and seeing the moon surrounded by stars.
Imagine the way this feels, standing there in your roofless and disassembled home.
How do you feel?
Pause.
Embrace the feeling.
This is the power of introspection.
It allows us to rebuild our mental home. It allows us to reconstruct the thing we call “reality.”
Imagine the place where you are vulnerable in your roofless home.
Imagine finding peace and acceptance of this moment.
When we lead from this place, we honor our humanity.
We honor the deepest force that makes us human.
We respect the real uncertainty, the risk to exist, and the exposure.
When we make peace and accept this place, we become aligned with the energy that gives us power.
It’s when we realize we are already naked.
This is a powerful place we can lead from.
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