Today is a very mild day, for deep winter, and there’s a thick fog.
I can’t see my neighbor’s house or driveway, and the detail on all the trees has faded into a blur.
The damp is penetrating.
This is the latest in a number of grey, cloudy, colorless days. Nature is resting.
When it is like this, my vision is obscured. I can’t see much, and what I can see is blurred. Much of what I can see is a dull monotone.
This is a good reflection of how I am feeling: very quiet, and like it is time to rest.
I can’t see much in the way of a vision for my business right now. It feels like it is growing and changing, but the details are unformed at the moment.
As a professional coach, I live and work in a world that says that we “must” have a vision. Part of what I do as a coach is help my clients clarify their life and work visions.
As an owner of my own business, I am told by business professionals that it is essential to have a vision, for my business, for content that I publish, for social media engagement, and for a whole host of other things.
I agree that it is desirable to have a vision. Visions can be compelling and motivating.
However, sometimes there isn’t a vision to be seen or clarified. Sometimes the vision isn’t ready to be revealed yet. Like the dense fog outside, in time, clarity will re-emerge. What is called for in these times is patience.
Wisdom tells me that visions aren’t made; they reveal themselves from our deeper wisdom.
Whatever vision is needed for me will emerge when it is needed, from a space of listening within.
My challenge is to refrain from pushing on it. I don’t like being in fog, literal or metaphoric. I often try to do something to get out of it.
The fog is the wisdom, today. It’s telling me that while things are unclear in the moment, in good time, the fog will lift, and what I need to know will become clear.
What is foggy for you right now? What if you waited until the fog lifts?
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