Evolving is changing from one state to another. The word evolution has a feeling of movement in it.

While we don’t necessary need to be the one moving in order to evolve, we do need to be in aligned movement if we want to evolve towards a more authentic and inspired version of ourselves.

And how we do that is in doing. Doing can be the act of creating art or carrying out an inspired idea or in building real connections and community or in seeking support from a coach/mentor/leader. All of these have contributed towards Lisa 2.0 and 3.0 and so on.

Don’t expect the motion and intentions of the people around you, a corporation or watching Instagram reels to push you into your true evolution. You must be involved!

So what are you going to start doing today to contribute towards your true evolution?

I feel the last topic I should explore is rest as I know I don’t get nearly enough of it.

But whether we get a lot or a little, we all have a relationship with rest.

The fact that I don’t rest a lot means I have a different perspective to share. While not all perspectives are 100% valid, I know a topic like rest would benefit from my viewpoint.

Having done something more or less does not necessarily make me less qualified to pontificate on it and share my thoughts.

Now fill in “rest” with the topic that you have been wanting to talk/write more about.

You make the rules.

There may be what is standard or normal or acceptable or expected by society, culture, your community, your family, your colleagues, your industry, some random thought leader, etc. but those things don’t really matter.

You make the call.

I love when I reach out to someone, and they say, “I was just thinking about you!”

I see synchronicities like these as a sign that I’m in tune, in sync and in flow with life and all of its goodness.

We get signs like this in many different ways – maybe seeing images of a blue butterfly in random, unrelated places or hearing the same song when going from the car to the store or running into someone you haven’t seen in years at a festival you were dragged along to.

These synchronicities remind me that we humans are all connected in really magical ways. They are a fun way to tap into our infinite potential. The more we can observe and recognize these magical encounters, the more that will come our way. And then as we follow through with these encounters, before long, we may find ourselves living in synchronicity.

On the path, we start off as reluctant revolutionaries.

Revolutionary because we see something that needs to be changed and we want to be part of the change.

Reluctant because a part of us does not want to be the instigator of the change. That part of us is ingrained in our internal belief system and patterning which hold us back from making our true impact on the world. We may want to completely revolutionize how birth is done in our country but the inability to put ourselves out there in order to gather support, raise funds and get our message out will hold us back.

The thing with our internal patterning is that it doesn’t hold us back entirely. We take two steps forward and then the patterning takes us one step back. It is an internal battle to try to make progress and get to the next step. The reluctance is taking that one step back because our patterning and conditioning do not feel safe as the revolutionary.

In order to change the world, we’ve got to move from reluctant to resolute. It is the only way we can sustainably make an impact.