Road to failure
By Frank Bolaji Irawo
Failure
Sounds like
It should be
Where the road
Comes to an end
It could be
That depends on you
You could decide
To build more road
Using the learning material
We often prematurely call situations a failure before we realise the significance of the experience and how it feeds into our future
Embrace your failure as an opportunity to learn what you can do differently in the future
Take the positives from what life presents you and let it inform how you take the next step forward
Know yourself, make time to sit with yourself and learn about your deepest purpose
People are part of the material for making your purpose a reality
What important learning from a past failure is helping you now?
Work of art
By Frank Bolaji Irawo
What a work of art
I hear you exclaim
Speaks to its beauty
Pleasure in beholding
Enjoying artistic flair
Emanating from whom
The universe breathed
As for the rest of us
We have work to do
Of this, have no doubt
For form to arise
From divine inspiration
For the unseen to be seen
This artist made possible
By doing the Work
For what is an unseen idea or inspiration to manifest in this dimension and be experienced, takes a human vessel being open to do the work of giving it form.
We ourselves are works of divine art, created to bring aspects of the divine into being for others to experience.
We are here to experience a wide array of circumstances in which our uniqueness may be manifest and experienced.
We are channels of divine inspiration, we can choose to trust what we are inspired to do and produce beautiful work in real time just by being completely present and open to what is showing up in our minds.
Co-creating with the divine using our gifts is also a way of giving to others from what we have been given as an act of gratitude.
Each of us carries a unique footprint in the co-creation process. We have the opportunity to bring into manifestation a unique expression of divine inspiration to showcase the infinite potential that is available.
Creative expression can be therapeutic and a great exercise to support our wellbeing.
In what form are people experiencing your creative output?
Fearless
By Frank Bolaji Irawo
Fearlessness is not overcoming fear
Like in a fight or a war
It is not being afraid of fear either
And insisting that it disappear
It is about knowing its true nature
Appreciating its true intentions
Acknowledging genuine concerns
Holding love closer than it
While taking the very next step
Fearing no less while staying true
To serve what is flowing from you
Love is the perfect antidote for fear. When you know that you are loved regardless of performance you can relax and take a chance. When you live loved, it opens your heart to love others and not be afraid.
To the extent to which you attempt to suppress thoughts of fear, it is the same measure by which it would come back up. It is like a blown-up beach ball suppressed under water, once released; all that energy comes straight back up in equal measure.
What you resist, persists. Energy flows where focus goes. It is a waste of energy to try and control what the mind does and we can't win at that.
Fear restricts the channels in the brain responsible for carrying creative ideas. The more centred and relaxed we are, the more creative we can be.
We have the sense of agency to recognise when our minds are being hijacked by fear and not supportive of creativity and can reset to a more creative state.
If we centre ourselves in love and come from a place of Being; knowing that we are good enough and OK in our deepest essence. We can engage fear from a place of strength. We can thank fear for its concerns, take any mitigating steps if necessary and go ahead with the next step on our creative journey.
What is fear preventing you from doing?
Success Is
By Frank Bolaji Irawo
Success is experiencing discomfort
Because you have touched a "reality"
Success is opening your heart
And feeling something deep within
Success is being more aware of what is good
And what could be better
Success is aspiring to be better
More accurately informed by experience
Success is a decision to work on you
And model a better way of being
Success is a process not an end state
Our definitions of success can be heavily influenced by our childhood conditioning.
Success is an internal journey to recognising that you are the success going somewhere to manifest. It is a decision to give yourself the opportunities life provides for you to have those experiences and be of service. In this paradigm, everyone can experience their own success.
Everyone should find their version of success as it is available to everyone.
Some people do not aspire to "success" as they do not see it as something that applies to the likes of them, so why try?
For someone who has been closed off as a mind-installed defence mechanism against experiencing pain, feeling again would be a success as it will help them have a more rounded human experience. It would engender self-love and increase their capacity to connect to others from a place of empathy.
Success is celebrating what is good while recognising it could be even better without making yourself wrong. The drive to make it better can then come from a place of positive energy.
It is possible to be afraid of success because it would draw attention to you and invite criticism. When we focus on being in service of others it can help us overcome this.
Fighting the mind when we don't approve of what it is fixated on is not helpful. It prolongs the experience and keeps the energy in the room. It is much better to observe it in the knowledge that it will pass and choose to reset to the present moment by conscious breathing to take it out of ruminating over the past or being anxious about the future.
When you are present and relaxed you can access all the creative resources to make the best decisions and take the most helpful course of action.
What does success look like for you?
As a TransFLOWmation coach, I help entrepreneurs and business leaders remove mental blockers, unleash dormant creative energy and fearless innovation, and rejuvenate their business relationships to ignite and increase productivity.
TransFLOWmation is based on the following premise: We have infinite potential residing within
For us to maximise that potential, we need to let it FLOW from within aligned and unhindered.
This is achieved using a suite of services based on the following high-level outline of the 4 Pillars of Professional TransFLOWmation.
These four pillars are the key to experiencing it.
Clear: Remove the mental blockages stopping you from recognising your potential
Connect: Connect to and align with your true purpose
Collaborate: Work with the universe and those it puts into your life
Create: Start to fulfil your potential by taking inspired action
It is a 4-stage/16-module instructional guide process that can be highly customized to meet personal needs to get the universe “flowing” in your favour, maximising your professional potential.
Click Below for A high-level outline of my Signature Program. I look forward to discussing it further!