Now Who Am I?
It takes big courage to ask a big question.
Here’s one: Have you seen this series Naked and Afraid? I never heard of it until three weeks ago when my nieces turned me on to:
What happens when you put two complete strangers in some of the most extreme environments on earth; take away their clothes, water, food, and see who can survive like this for 21 days.
I didn’t think I’d make it through watching one hour of this craziness. But then…
These people have to answer: Are you strong enough of body and mind to survive what the average bear couldn’t endure for an hour?
I wondered, what kind of a woos am I? Until the night it hit me…They’re in the middle of nowhere with one other person—maybe two or three total will cross their paths. No home schooling, grappling with Covid—mask on or mask off dilemmas. They’ve got a camera crew following them to pick them up and “dial out” any time they can’t take it. A map that shows them how to get where they are going next, a dramatic voice over announcer and background music.
You and I don’t have these goodies in our survivor basket.
I wonder what happens if you put these people in a “real” world? Of say 2021.
A world where many feel like they have been dropped off in some of the toughest environments in the world.
Wanting to go back to normal or “pick up where we left off.” But there is never a going back. Only discovering forward.
Who doesn’t feel a little naked and afraid?
Without a map or clear-cut direction.
In my experience, it’s people who may not know how to wrestle with a tarantula or drink their own urine to stave-off dehydration that lead, survive and thrive.
But we do ask the big questions for moving ahead and surviving fearlessly. Ones that require a little pondering and deep and friendly diving.
Like: Now who am I?
The answers are still born in your story.
Not the stories you think you’ve got down pat to sell your products and services.
But the ones you probably forgot are in and have always been in the first book you ever read.
We start there.
The big non-boiler plate questions are golden. And this is a new renaissance.
Are you brave enough to be this creative?
Email me and let’s set a time to talk.