Build Container
The peace that surrounds you. The power within you. All of us have the potential to build and be containers of love. You are the vessel and the conduit, let it start from inside you. Sit with yourself, find the stillness needed to listen, learn new habits, define your value, and communicate with kindness. This will be the defining work for what comes next. The work of what you carry forward, to arrive where you started and know the place for the first time.
Know your value, own your value, and create systems for self-care. When you can define your value it will be an exchange of love—it will be in service. With this exchange, your economy becomes one of trust and your relationships become your currency. The trust economy relies on your consistency, as consistency builds trust, and trust builds relationships, which creates currency. Throughout this system is respect and reciprocity, which supports open and clear communication of value and values, making apparent your alignment, or not, as well as the adaptability to meet each other in the present moment.
Most of our current corporate systems do not utilize the trust economy nor allow space for us to build our own containers of value. What a shame. Just think of the potential, reflect on the greatness that has been possible when you have felt trust, ownership, and valued. Or rather, in Brett's words, when you have the trifecta of peace, power, and love.
To love others is to first love yourself. From this place of self-value, self-care, and self-love, you develop a foundational mindset, one that has space for more expansive thinking and actions. One that can give to others and create containers (brand, bodies, and businesses) that are in service and that unify. Containers that unify are ones that invite others to own the message and the meaning, to express themselves and express to others their purpose and vision, and thus is the chain reaction of what we have quantified as successful branding and marketing. When you build this authentic container, one that is clear and consistent, you enable trust—the foundation of love. Plus, our minds and hearts find ease in reliability and stable systems, which then makes sense why historically uniforms have unified us all. They have unified those who wear them, as well as those that rely or trust the symbolism of the uniform (container) and the individuals that put them on and embody them. Consider for yourself how the container of uniform (or really any container you create) can clearly communicate and provide further freedom within its confines.
To build a sustainable container is in direct relationship with our ability to give and receive love, which is a multi-layered conversation with trust, ownership, value, and healthy boundaries. This conversation becomes your love language, and your ability to communicate its meaning starts and ends with you. We know this is heavy work, but it must be done. You will certainly experience peaks and valleys, deaths and rebirths, but after all, to love someone is to attend a thousand of their funerals (even your own). It's a journey. Approach it as such. Reference your self-care instructions often and when you need a talisman to take with you, remember, BLBNKS—Be Love. Boldly Brave. Nimble. Kindness. Selflessly Serve.