Joy Ride Vol 2
Brainstorm Road’s Friday dose of fun, inspiration, and action
Welcome to Joy Ride Vol 2: Brainstorm Road’s Friday dose of fun, inspiration, and action.
This week we introduced the “Cinderella Moment,” the idea that one day in the future you will transform into the version of who you are supposed to be.
We challenged this idea with the question: What do you do at midnight?
You’re Cinderella. It’s 11:59 PM. You’re about to transform from a popular, beautiful, and wealthy princess to an ostracized scarlet-lettered orphan servant confined to her room and beholden to toxic and abusive family members.
The story suggests that Cinderella must change everything about herself in order to “get” her prince charming and transcend her circumstances. It encourages us to believe in that radically transformative “sudden” moment when we are no longer the unacceptable “lower” version of ourselves - but rather the aspirational “better” version of ourselves.
We’d like to challenge that idea.
The version of you right now is worthy of going after your dreams.
There is no Cinderella moment when you magically transform into an idealized version of yourself. There is only who you are, as you are, right now - and the belief that who you are is enough for your dream.
You are enough for your dream.
Cinderella was wrong. She didn’t need magic. She needed a little help from her community (the kind we offer at Brainstorm Road) to get herself out of her toxic circumstances and the freedom to be herself in a world that desired she be someone else.
Three Things Worth Sharing
Watch: How Keala Settle steps into herself and transforms this song in this behind the Scenes clip from of The Greatest Showman. This is Me
Listen: Elizabeth Gilbert talking about The Art of Being Yourself on the Chase Jarvis Show
Read: What happens when people live “well in their places.” How listening and deigning to care helped save a forest of dying Sequoias
Participate
We noticed that people with Dream Projects are the sort of folks who want to improve, do the work, and get better. We want more knowledge, skills, data, experience, and expertise before we begin.
We see the gap between what is and what could be. (That’s the magic space where Dream Projects come from.)
Instead of focusing on the gap, notice what’s good about now, about what currently exists.
What about you (present tense, current you right now in this moment) is perfectly suited for your Dream Project?
Tell us. Own it.
Share your thoughts below.
You are enough for your Dream Project.
Happy Friday,
Margo + Kristin
Is it just me or does Jane Eyre have it all figured out...
“I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”