Jamie George

Have you seen the musical Wicked? It's the story of the wicked witch of the West. Her name is Alba, and, and she goes to school and all she wants to do is meet the wizard until she realize he's not what she thought he would be. And she has this moment where she says, it's time for me to defy gravity. It's time for me to stop ignoring my own intuition and to do what's true and to do what's good, to act on behalf of what's true for me and what's good for other people. I'm done playing by the rules of someone else's selfish game.

What about you? This is a time to drop the shoulds and instead take ownership for your own life. Take an action. Go and defy gravity.

Describe for me the gap between where you are and where you wanna be. I was climbing in the mountains of Virginia, uh, at the highest peak, the peaks of Otter, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. My friend and I saw this outcropping. We thought it'd be really cool to jump out there. There was this big gap. I, it was like a 40, 50 foot drop, but the rock wasn't that far away. It was pretty easy to jump over. So we did, we jumped over and it felt pretty cool to be out on this rock all by ourselves. Eagles flying below us. I mean, it was just gorgeous, beautiful up in the Virginia Mountains.

And, and then it was time to get back and we realized we had jumped down onto that rock, and now somehow we had to get back up. I, it, it looked like a place I really wanted to be, but I didn't take enough time to measure what might it be like to get back, or once I was there, was it all that it was cracked up to be.

As it turned out, we, we kind of put one foot against one rock and one foot against another, and kind of threw our weight over and we, we made it back, uh, not without some risk. When you're looking for the thing you want, there's always a gap. Are you willing to jump and are you willing to measure the jump? And are you willing to see where you will go next? So sometimes it's about taking one step. Sometimes it's about looking at the next three steps. Sometimes it's about looking at the entire experiencing, measuring it.

Is this something I truly want? So maybe before you take that one step, consider how bad do I want this?

So a client came up to me recently and and said, Hey, this one question you asked me has changed my life. Literally, it's changed the trajectory of my life. I I'm a different person. And, and I was surprised it, it seemed like such a simple question, but he said, no, it's really meaningful. Keep asking this question, and the question is this, are you showing up as a servant or as a savior? And the energy is different.
When you're a servant. You're looking for ways to help people to meet them at their point of need, to be attentive to what they might want or to listen to their preferences. When you're a savior, you tend to overreach over-function, and there's this subtlety and nuance in the energy. You wind up making it more about you than them.

You don't present that way. It sounds maybe like you're there to help or serve or do something for them, but unfortunately, when you're there to rescue someone, and I'm not talking about rescue them from a physical situation, an ailment or an emergency, I'm talking about when you're, it has this rescuing energy. It's really more about soothing some kind of inner anxiety in you than it is about actually meeting them at their point of need. So pay attention.

Notice the subtlety, notice the difference. When do you show up as a servant and when do you show up trying to be a savior?