How to Live The Blended Self Lifestyle
What is The Blended Self lifestyle?
My mission is to encourage you to bring “every part of who God created you to be” wherever you go, in every assignment He has tasked you to do. My gift of administration allows me to jump in, put a plan on paper and help others activate various goals and project vision. In order to do that, I’ve had to let go and allow God to transform me into The Blended Self.
I find career-minded folks try to compartmentalize who they are and end up stuck or feeling unfulfilled. It’s normal to have job challenges and crises, but stuck is different. Stuck is when you’re trying to accomplish tasks, have productive meaningful conversations, but you feel as if you want to click your heels together and keep saying “there’s no place like home” until you arrive back with Auntie Em. (Okay, so I’m showing my experience!)
Stuck happens because you left a part of you along life’s path, and were either too preoccupied, scared, or prideful to stop and reflect on our lives to see the truth. Trust me, been there, wore and folded up the t-shirt.
Do you believe that you are made up of all the boxes above? If you answered yes, that’s more than have the journey of truly knowing who you are. I look at my clients and coworkers and can see whether they’ve brought their entire game or a portion. I am paid to see if you can be tossed like lettuce and not wilt or like a cat out of the window landing on their feet. You get my point.
We must be okay bringing all of ourselves to the meeting table, to our jobs, to the grocery store, a networking event, a parent’s conference or an interview that we really want to shine in. I guess it also matters what you call shining.
I believe shining is when I see a healthy body, hear an encouraging hopeful voice, engage with someone who knows their strength is hidden in the power of God, and their heart is ultimately yielded toward a life of agape love. They don’t take their attitude or conversations toward others lightly because there is a inner knowing that the Spirit of life or spiritual death are behind the words they speak.
We must stop being uncomfortable praying for our coworkers, stop having a hard heart when life is already so complicated and stop holding back your God-given gifts when people desperately need an atmosphere of peace and a joy-full healthy work culture.
A job is more than a job. A career is more than a career. Your life is more than just a life. Spirit self strengthens physical self strengthens emotional self strengthens (and restores) the new self.
Yes, The Blended Self hugs their inner self, while invisibly externally hugging the community they are planted in. They roll up their sleeves, put on their pumps, steel-toe shoes or walk barefoot in the grass devoted to doing their life’s work as a holistic overcomer. Wholly, holy - - focused on checking off all of the boxes above.
When I coach, teach, train, learn, laugh, grieve, facilitate, love, heal, write, sing - - I am pouring out my Blended Self. It’s your turn!
If you want a fulfilling job, career, leadership role, family role, friendship circle, team-building culture, or personal life destiny - - it’s time to become Blended and whole.
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