Focused Intention or Split Attention?

Focused Intention or Split Attention?

Focused Intention or Split Attention
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

I recently returned from hosting my Masterpiece Mastermind retreat in Austin, Texas. It was an incredible time! We were able to get “on the court” about what it is to show up as your Sourced energy, as your Masterpiece.

A few themes came through in the form of “on the court” lessons that I am excited to share over the next few weeks.

We were able to get “on the court” about what it is to show up as your Sourced energy, as your Masterpiece. 

The Power of Your Intention and Attention
Think about the power of your intention and attention. Are you moving through your life and business with focused intention, or are you splitting your attention? Are you divided in some way?

At retreat, many participants were clear about what they wanted, but then there was another conversation they were having about how to make that happen. So we broke down what happens energetically when we split our attention.

When you are clear that you want something, it could be a house on the beach (it doesn’t have to be, but it could) or feeling vibrant and alive working in the world, when you are clear in what you desire and hold it as if it is a done deal; then it will be. At retreat, we continued to say, Boom! Done!

There it is. That’s the thing. I said it. I named it. I claimed it. Boom. Done.

When you operate like this, the other conversations of ‘how do I make it happen? How do I figure out what people need me to say to go there with me?’ fade away.

Instead, you say, boom, done.

when you are clear in what you desire and hold it as if it is a done deal; then it will be. 

We may think, I set my goal, and I am doing everything I can to reach my goal, but what you’re doing is saying, ‘I want this,’ but acting in a lower vibration.

An example:
You want to make multiple six figures in your business and are currently making fifty thousand. You say you want to make six figures, but all of your attention is on this problem of only making fifty. How do you make sixty? Or seventy? How do you make sure you don’t lose the fifty you already have? Now your attention is split.

As opposed to when that clarity of a Sourced desire comes through, you no longer need to be concerned about the current state of 50K. Instead, say to yourself, what does it look like to earn 200K?

Then start to price accordingly, walk accordingly, invest accordingly, hire team accordingly, dress accordingly, etc.. Whatever that new energy feels like in your field, be that now.

Instead, say to yourself,

what does it look like to earn 200K?

 

We are taught to be logical and linear. I am a recovering engineer, so I know everything about reverse engineering to get from point A to point B successfully. As soon as we do that, we split our attention.

Splitting your attention is the worst thing you can do for your business.

What is bubbling up for you as you read this?

This is a muscle, by the way. When you see the goal, everything in you that thinks not that will come to the surface. It’s a matter of discipline to say this is it; this is who I am, boom, done, and not entertain the other conversations.

I promise if you can practice this, your life will change quickly.

When I have had moments of clarity of a Sourced desire come through, I started acting “as if I was”. It was more than that; I wasn’t acting; I was BEING. I am willing to do whatever it takes to be in alignment with this.

What is your intention that you can say boom, done, and let it go? That has been the key to every uplevel I have ever experienced.

 

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It was more than that; I wasn’t acting; I was BEING. I am willing to do whatever it takes to be in alignment with this.

Potency Versus Power as a Transformational Leader

Potency Versus Power as a Transformational Leader

Potency versus Power as a Transformational Leaders
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

Potency versus Power as a Transformational Leader

What does it mean to be potent? What does it mean to be powerful? What do these terms not mean?

In this week’s YouTube video, I speak about potency versus power as a Transformational Leader. These are terms used frequently in the transformational space. When you are potent, a little goes a long way.

When working with your clients, they can experience transformational shifts because by being in your energetic presence, they feed off that potency. When you are powerful, you are free to be yourself, speak your core truth and receive what comes.

When you are willing to be 100% aligned with who you are and our magic, nothing and no one can control us. Watch the entire video to hear my thoughts on what POTENCY and POWER are NOT.

Let me know what resonates with you in the comments down below.

When you are powerful, you are free to be yourself, speak your core truth and receive what comes.  

Using Source Within the Cycle of Creation with Lisa Welden

Using Source Within the Cycle of Creation with Lisa Welden

Using Source Within the Cycle of Creation with Lisa Welden
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

Lisa Welden is a Certified Sourced Leader and founder of Rebel Sage. 

 

She believes that everyone has unique medicine to share with the world. She guides her clients to listen to their hearts and trust their rebel nature to create businesses and lives that light them up.

 

Most of the conversation I had with Lisa was around the Cycle of Creation, the five elements, the importance of creating from Sourced Energy, and stepping into the unknown with no real attachment to the outcomes. 

 

The Cycle of Creation is a reference tool designed for heart-centered, sensitive, and vulnerable entrepreneurs to some of the masculine blueprints we sometimes try to fit in but ultimately do not match our soul’s desire. 

The Cycle of Creation is a reference tool designed for heart-centered, sensitive entrepreneurs who are vulnerable to the masculine blueprints we sometimes try to fit in but ultimately do not match our soul’s desire. 

The Five Elements – Phases of the Cycle of Creation

Water – Winter, spaciousness of the unknown, void, space to create a spark or catalyst, inspiration

 

Wood – Spring, something exciting, an idea, commitment to an idea, vision comes into form

 

Fire – Summer, effective and inspired action, alignment and course correction, program details take shape

 

Earth – Fall, nourish, digest, and metabolize the creation so we can embody and integrate it

 

Metal – completion, releasing your creation into the world and letting it be whatever it is, grieving anything that needs to be grieved in preparation for rebirth (water)

The five elements are phasic and cyclical. They are a map to help identify where we are when creating.

The five elements are phasic and cyclical. They are a map to help identify where we are when creating. Some phases are easier for people. Some phases are more challenging for people, and they could feel stuck in one or skip one entirely. 

 

Lisa has found herself being challenged by water or the spaciousness of the unknown, but using Source, she can be in the stillness of water, trusting that spring (the idea) will come.

Visit my YouTube Channel to watch the entire interview. 

Shift the Field Audiobook YouTube Playlist

Shift the Field Audiobook YouTube Playlist

Shift the Field Audiobook YouTube Playlist
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

Did you hear? The audio version of Shift the Field was released last month!

 

In celebration of its release, my team and everyone registered for Shift the Field Live are listening to/ reading and re-reading it together, and discussing major themes and key points in our private Shift the Field Live Facebook group.

 

There is still time to listen or read with us!

 

Purchase the Audiobook and join the book study here.

Purchase the paperback book and join the book study here.

 

In the YouTube playlist, Ashlie and I discuss Shift the Field, how we live its teaching in our business and life, and what living Sourced means to us.

In the YouTube playlist, Ashlie and I discuss Shift the Field, how we live its teaching in our business and life, and what living Sourced means to us.

Part One: Energy First – We talk about one of the foundations of all my teachings: energy first when working with clients.

 

Part Two: In Your Industry – There is space for transformation in many industries, such as graphic design, law, therapy, education, and interior design, to name a few. It can be intimidating to talk about energy in mainstream professions that usually don’t use language familiar to those of us in the transformation field. We are trying to change that!

 

Part Three: Your Magic – It’s that thing you do so naturally that it’s like breathing and what you do when you drop all the analytical thoughts and BE with your client (or friend, partner, or child) in the moment. It is your intuitive gift. The key is to know WHEN to use your Magic and when NOT to use your Magic.

 

When and where to share your Magic will be significant themes and new content at the upcoming Shift the Field Live.

 

Watch the entire YouTube playlist here.

When and where to share your Magic will be significant themes and new content at the upcoming Shift the Field Live.

Gestation versus Momentum – Trusting Source to Set the Pace

Gestation versus Momentum – Trusting Source to Set the Pace

Gestation versus Momentum – Trusting Source to Set the Pace
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

Momentum vs. Gestation – how do you know where you are and what you need?

We are creating a new website!

 

I made a YouTube video a while back about developing our new website. The video was about having a transformational container in which the website would be created.

 

We have been in this container of support to create the new website, and one of the things we do in each meeting is to go around the room to presence what is available to each person at that time.

 

Not necessarily the details of the project, but what has been bubbling up in their awareness and intuition since we last met. In our latest meeting, we realized that the feeling in the room was that of momentum.

 

Although we have been doing things for the website, they have been small as we were in a gestation period. We have been thinking, feeling, sensing, etc.!

 

How amazing is that! To have a team collectively sensing the same energy at the same pace because Source is guiding us!

 

We collectively feel a shift into the momentum and are ready to execute.

How amazing is that! To have a team collectively sensing the same energy at the same pace because Source is guiding us!

We are now ready to make decisions and be in action. Had we tried to be in the place of momentum before we were ready, it would not work out very well, but again, Source is guiding us.

 

I have done this before, and it feels like frustration.

 

I point this out as a team, but we each have this individually as well.

 

Individually, you have cycles for things you are holding. You are either in a place of Gestation or holding. In Gestation, you are holding space for the project to unfold, for the awareness to kick in, and for Source to deliver different messages to you through humans, conversations, and things happening in the world.

In Gestation, you are holding space for the project to unfold, for the awareness to kick in, and for Source to deliver different messages to you through humans, conversations, and things happening in the world.

Then you hit the place of clarity and readiness for momentum or to birth the new idea and move it forward. Nothing is worse than being in a gestation period and thinking you should be in momentum.   

 

Our culture expects us to be in momentum all the time. Wanting to be in momentum all the time, at least for my team, doesn’t work. We are in collective energy, which is either Gestation or momentum. 

 

The most common thing I see is to discern default energy from Sourced energy. 

    • Default energy may say, I can’t take that action, I can’t be in momentum because everything isn’t perfect yet, and I’m not ready.

    • Sourced energy will say, I’m not taking action because I know I will know when I am ready to take action.  

Those are two very different things. A person could be in a place of deep knowing that they are in a gestation period and that the birth will happen and feel good about it. 

Or they might be in the gestation period, but because they know how default energy feels (procrastinating, hiding out, trying not to be seen), they might mistake the gestation period for default energy and then beat themselves up for not being in momentum when in reality they are simply still in Gestation! 

Nothing is worse than being in a gestation period and thinking you should be in momentum.   

 

Our culture expects us to be in momentum all the time. Wanting to be in momentum all the time, at least for my team, doesn’t work.

This awareness is why the work we do at Sourced is so essential.

 

We teach others how to be 100% clear when you are in Gestation, knowing you are in a cycle, feeling good about it, not pushing anything, not forcing anything, not producing only to be in momentum.

 

The other part is knowing when you are ready and taking precise, potent, and fast action.

It is impossible to waste time. When you have an energetic awareness of life, everything that happens and unfolds contributes to your becoming energetically. You have access to all of that forever.

When COVID started, I was leading retreats about how to lead profitable retreats. That was not popular at that moment.

 

Did I feel at that moment, “oh no, the world took away my livelihood, and all the time I spent developing this program was wasted because I have to start over?

 

No. I didn’t feel that because who I became when developing that work was accessible to me to create the next stage. It didn’t go away. It is always there.

 

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time.

 

Tell me what your thoughts are on this.

 

    • Does this speak to you?
    • Do you know someone beating themselves up over past decisions that need to hear this?

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time. 

Why When You Live Sourced, Time Can Never Be Wasted

Why When You Live Sourced, Time Can Never Be Wasted

Why When You Live Sourced, Time Can Never Be Wasted
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

 

I’ve been experiencing several landmark dates lately.

For instance, my wedding anniversary (the marriage no longer exists) was on Monday, so I have been present to the idea of wasting time or feeling like we are behind somehow.

 

Have you ever felt that way?

It has been a year since my marriage ended, and much healing has happened. I’m at a place of deep acceptance, profound release of my right to be upset and angry, and am at a place where I have embraced everything that has changed in my life.

I was with my ex for nine years. I grew a lot, and the person I am now is not the person I was at the beginning of those nine years. Last year, however, when my marriage was “blown up,” one of my primary thoughts and reactions was about having “wasted my time.”

I’m at a place of deep acceptance, profound release of my right to be upset and angry, and am at a place where I have embraced everything that has changed in my life.

Like I said before, I did much of my growth on my own, but much of that growth happened within the container of the relationship. The growth occurred in response to what was happening in the relationship.

 

If I held on to the idea that I had wasted nine years of my life (prime years, by the way), the idea that I shouldn’t be the age that I am single and starting over, and the idea that I am behind the prescribed timeline, then I would have been stuck in that reality.

 

I have been thinking about some Facebook posts I have seen recently pointing out how some famous people found their success later in life. There are lots of people who have reinvented and created something beautiful later in life.

 

This idea is that time can be wasted, and because we have wasted that time, we are somehow behind where we should be. This idea is very toxic and so easy to latch on to.

 

The idea that if I had done something different, I would be in another place right now is not helpful. Because guess what? You didn’t. You’re not. You are here. What if exactly where you are is the perfect place to be?

This idea is that time can be wasted, and because we have wasted that time, we are somehow behind where we should be. This idea is very toxic and so easy to latch on to.

If you are interacting with this conversation, who you are now is amazing! You are clear; you are Sourced, you know who you are, you are here to make an impact, and you are connected to your diving knowing.

 

What is that worth?

 

I can say I am at a point where I can look at the nine years I spent with my ex, which in theory ended up as nothing; I can look at who I became during that time and credit that relationship for the growth (at least some) I experienced.

 

I love who I am, and I love who I have become. It can be hard to give that level of credit to someone who hurt you, but my becoming happened within the container of that relationship. I can’t possibly know how it would have gone any other way except for how it went.

I love who I am, and I love who I have become. It can be hard to give that level of credit to someone who hurt you, but my becoming happened within the container of that relationship. I can’t possibly know how it would have gone any other way except for how it went.

So did I waste time?

 

Or did I allow new energies to come through me during that time, getting practice as a more expansive version of myself even if it came through contrast and challenging situations?

 

I became a newer version of me, and as soon as we make that wrong, we lose access to the energy and potency of who we are and that experience.

It is impossible to waste time. When you have an energetic awareness of life, everything that happens and unfolds contributes to your becoming energetically. You have access to all of that forever.

 

 

Even if your circumstances change, your business changes, your location changes, and even if your home changes, you still have who you became.

 

 

That nurturance never goes away.

It is impossible to waste time. When you have an energetic awareness of life, everything that happens and unfolds contributes to your becoming energetically. You have access to all of that forever.

When COVID started, I was leading retreats about how to lead profitable retreats. That was not popular at that moment.

 

Did I feel at that moment, “oh no, the world took away my livelihood, and all the time I spent developing this program was wasted because I have to start over?

 

No. I didn’t feel that because who I became when developing that work was accessible to me to create the next stage. It didn’t go away. It is always there.

 

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time.

 

Tell me what your thoughts are on this.

 

    • Does this speak to you?
    • Do you know someone beating themselves up over past decisions that need to hear this?

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time.