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BC Women Leading Us To Our Big Visions

What if we were all living our Signýficant Contribution? walking-349991_1280

Humour me for a minute and picture a world where you’re doing exactly what you want.

Imagine a world where all of us are on purpose and in action around our purpose.

How might our lives be different? How might the world be different?

This is exactly what I’m so pumped to be talking about on March 26^th at this year’s BC Women Lead Conference. I seriously can’t wait to get there and see what a room of 200+ women will uncover on this topic!

This year’s conference theme ‘Big STEPS –Big VISION’ fits perfectly with my ‘Participation is Mandatory’ philosophy.

We have to be active participants to create the life we want.

That only happens through the choices we make in our lives every day, day after day.

It makes sense then that the topic of my keynote is ‘Participation is Mandatory’. It’s all about how you can be active and engaged in your life. As I’m prepping for this presentation I’m doing a ton of reading on destiny and prioritization. Two of the key things I’m going to be touching on are:

choosing the relevant priorities for the life you want
calling you forth to your Signýficant Contribution

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Brand New Promo Video -YAY!

I am SO excited to finally be sharing this with all of you! I have a FABULOUS new promo video that I’ve been dying for you to watch. What better time to share some of my new directions than the New Year?

Here are my 5 favourite things about the video:

The way it truly shows my style. Fierce, passionate and fun!
The testimonials, right? Love those ladies for their honest perspectives: “What really strikes me about the way that Signý talks is that she throws down everything that she has.” Yes, yes I do!
The team that made it – SPIRO Creative, you guys are rockstars!
Where it was filmed. Thank you Conscious Divas for having me to speak at your spectacular event, Living Extraordinary . A full house of 300 firey people – what’s not to love!
My dress. Sorry, had to throw that one in there, it’s a true favourite!

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Is it time to STOP?

Obviously there are plenty of things that we could stand to do less of in a day. What I’m talking about today is stopping the busyness habit. You know what I mean, that compulsion to do more, do better and do it in a way that makes it look easy. In today’s world, we all have it (or so it would seem), and we all seem to just think it’s normal, just the way things are.

Here’s the thing … it’s not serving us. And it’s not like that is news. We all know it, deep down inside, that this is not working. But we keep doing it. Almost like our To Do list and keeping up to date on it, and being on top of our email is the new “keeping up with the Jones’ “. Comparing our inbox count and bemoaning how long our list is has become a point of bonding. And when that happens, our Hyper-Achieving saboteur has stolen the show, and made off with the real prize … our peace of mind.

And I get that we need to do what needs to be done. And if we don’t at least try to stay on top of the inbox that the ambush of emails can paralyse us … but we need to stop.

Maybe not forever, but at the very least … we need a break.

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Find Your Crew

I am a BIG believer in playing to your strengths: doing what you do well, sticking with your sweet spot. That alone makes the world better all around (better for us because we are having fun, better for others because if we’re happy and having fun, we’re better people to be around).

Along the same line, I believe we need to be surrounded by the right people. Our crew, our tribe, our soul family. Those people who get us. REALLY get us. Without trying, they find us funny, they see what is amazing about us, they get lit up around us, and we get energized being around them. I cannot overstate the power (and importance) of this. It is where fitting in (what we do with people that are not our crew) turns into belonging (what happens when we are with our tribe, the Ones Who Get Us). Things become effortless. And, not surprisingly, I am a big fan of effortless (goes along with Ease).

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Choose Fully Alive

Tonight (or Oct 21st, if you read this on a different day than I wrote it), I am speaking at Living Extraordinary. I am totally excited to be with a group of amazing speakers, sold out house and the magic that Kate and Conscious Divas creates.

AND.

I am nervous. Which is funny to me, because I love this stuff, and it’s not like I haven’t worked to groups this size, frequently. And it is only 7 minutes … hell, I could fill that just by introducing myself. And still nervous.

Here is what I think is going on. It represents something bigger for me. This night, this act, represents me stepping out into my bigger life. And so the fear is bigger than just speaking (which is fun for me). It is about being seen, it is about letting myself shine, it is about being fully me for all to see. It’s vulnerable and it’s scary shit no matter what. As humans we are wired to not do that, except that doing that is what makes us feel fully alive. It is what reminds us about who we really are, and what makes our hearts pound.

I, for one, have been craving that. As an expert in my chosen field it is so easy to go to sleep at the wheel. To be the sage on the stage, doing what I know. But that is not what I am up to in this life. Like many of you, I am here to stretch myself and grow and try new things. Even when they make me feel like I might barf.

So today, in celebration of breast cancer awareness month, and of being alive, I am choosing FULLY alive. I am choosing to do something that scares me, I am choosing to stretch, and I am choosing to cross the threshold into a new life and a new way of being.

Who wants to join me?

And what does that look like for you?

Please inspire us all by sharing that thing that stretches you, scares you and you know is your next powerful step!!

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STOP

H ow many of us need to hear this?

We all seem to be rushing around in our lives right now. It has become not just the new normal, but the new status symbol. “I’m just too busy to connect right now”. Rushing is evidence that we are important, or needed, or irreplaceable – or something.
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My Brave New World

It is a new day and new week (and almost a new month) – and new world. I have just come off of what I think will be my last insane work marathon – now stepping into a different way of doing my life. I was hoping and expecting it would be a feeling of relief, euphoria and spaciousness. Instead I am experiencing a touch of anxiety – like a “Now what?”.
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Playing my own Game

I was up playing squash this morning at 7am (yes, you heard that right), and I won 3 straight games against a woman who last time we played won 4 out of 5 of our games. So what was different?

Part way through our first game I noticed that she specializes in a short game (or maybe it is a habit, but either way, that is what she was up to). My best hope for winning is a long game (where I hit the ball to the very back of the court, for those not well versed in squash lingo). I know this. But there I was playing her game. The one that she wins at. The one where she is strong. Not sure how it happened. I just adjusted myself to what she was doing, what was important to her, how she showed up. And as a result kept losing to her. Duh!
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Letting Go

I seem to be especially bad at Letting Go. Which is a bit of a drag, since almost every spiritual path I know values it highly, sees it at the path to… well something or other. And I want to get to… something or other.

For me letting go has always been equated with loss, and trauma, and the Bad Stuff. Maybe that is true for lots of you reading this too, and so you are say… “yes, that is what it is about”, but I believe there almost must be another way of viewing it, another perspective that allows me to see what is great about it, and therefore something to embrace and pursue.
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Off Roading – the Signy Wilson Way

Off-roading. It’s nothing new. Except when you do it the way I do it. Not with Jeeps and mountain equipment, bringing along supplies just in case you get caught in the back woods, and certainly not the way Mark Taylor did it. No I am talking about an off-roading of the heart, of taking the same principles we bring to driving off of the beaten path to see what adventures lies around the corner – into all of our life, and all of those life decisions we all have to make, day after day, both big and small.
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