Acceptance As A Potent Tool For Change

Recently at a business event, I spoke on the topic of harnessing the superpowers of perimenopause to enhance potency in the entrepreneurial space.

With awareness being the number one obstacle to first be surmounted, it was the second hurdle that proved the most difficult.

ACCEPTANCE.

Often a dirty word as a result of well-meaning but misguided 'spiritual' teachings, acceptance is often translated to mean 'allowing'. These two words however are often a far cry from each other. Allowance is permission, consent, acceptance is understanding that yes, this is happening BUT what can I do to move through it in the best possible way. Acceptance lives side by side ACTION.

This loop of AWARENESS

ACCEPTANCE

ACTION

can be applied to all aspects of life eg your back hurts - okay yes, my back hurts, now what can I do to improve the situation. A great example of this at a much more serious end was in the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast episode with Ben Tillman, who embodies this coupling, being told he would never walk again, accepting that as a reality whilst simultaneously putting in all the effort to the potential of walking again.

ACCEPTANCE asks you to drop the shoulders, take a little smile at the corners of your mouth and nod to what is, whilst digging in to the effort of being the best you can be across all aspects of your life and simply seeing what happens. Unattached to outcome, completely diligent to the effort.

Then there is one last step in the loop:

AWARENESS

ACCEPTANCE

ACTION

and

ATTITUDE

Attitude gives 'colour' to our action - it can be joy, affection, gratitude, kindness - the attitude you choose, is up to you.