Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm sitting beside the Ludbrook.
You might be able to hear it gurgling in the background.
There's a ford point here,
A fording point,
And I can just about scramble across on pebbles and stones so I won't get my feet wet.
And on the other side of the river there's a herd of cows and I'm always very cautious of walking through cows,
Particularly if they've got young.
I'm going to stand up and see if I can see any young there.
I can't see any calves but I will be very cautious as I make my way through that herd and find my way back home.
And today I'm following on a bit from yesterday really.
I've been on my walk today reflecting on what I was talking about yesterday and explaining how my transition and working with women and exploring this sense of women taking up space in the world and taking up their space in the world is maybe a good way of putting it.
Not cowering back and doubting what they're about and what they're for and what they're up to.
And today is a bit different because I have a sense as I've been walking today,
I have a sense of what next for me and I just thought I'd share this with you to see if you fancied going along with this what next and go with this intuitively for yourself.
It might not be right for you and that's absolutely fine but it's an idea that you might find helpful and I don't know if it's going to be helpful or not for me but let me explain what I feel inclined and inspired to do.
You see one of the things I was talking about yesterday is my friend gave me a real perspective on how she sees me and I found that really helpful.
She pointed to aspects of me and skills and capacities and gifts in a way that I hadn't seen so clearly and it was really helpful that she pointed those out.
So this is about me,
I'm not coming from this in a place of neediness and I'm not coming from this from a place of ego but I feel strongly compelled to reach out to some dear friends who know me and ask them to authentically reflect on what they see in me,
What skills they see in me,
What they notice about me and I think and I don't know because I am following a breadcrumb trail and I'm being nudged and as you know following nudges we think we know where we're going with a nudge but the truth is we don't know but I think there's something for me to see which is about consolidating and just getting used to wearing and owning and feeling the skills and strengths and capacities and capabilities that I have and it's going to be useful for me to to understand that.
It's like I'm packing my case,
I'm going on holiday and I want to make sure that the clothes I put in the case are the right clothes to move forward in whatever country I'm going to visit,
Whatever the climate might be and it feels a little bit like that now,
It feels as though as I move forward and transition into this next phase it's going to be really helpful for me to understand and know what,
Excuse the sheep bleating and the cows mooing but I am up on that's the reason they're there,
You can hear them in the background but the thing I want to really deeply understand is what is it that I'm taking forward with me,
What am I packing in my suitcase,
Where am I heading,
What am I able to take with me and recognize and to utilize moving forward so are you up for doing this,
Are you up for let's say reaching out to three people,
No more than three people,
People that you know and trust and asking them to reflect on and give you some feedback about the skills and gifts that you have and I want you to be really clear this is not a self-development,
This is not about them pointing out what's wrong with you or what they think needs attention,
This is about you fully understanding the skills and gifts that others perceive you have and then you're just sort of trying that on for yourself and going does this fit for me,
Do I feel that they have seen me as I see myself,
Am I missing something about myself that they see but I hadn't realized truly before,
So I'm going to do this myself I'll probably feed back in about I don't know a week,
10 days and if you're up for doing this as well,
Well it'd be really good to know what comes up for you and what you start to see in yourself so we'll touch base on this a bit later on both for me and for you but just go and see how other people perceive your skills and abilities,
Let's see what turns up
