July, 2009 | QuintessentialYou Design - Part 2 QuintessentialYou Design

Distinguishing The Practices of QuintessentialYou

July 20th, 2009 by Kathleen

The context for The Practices of QuintessentialYou is ‘Activation Engaging Actualization’. That is to say that the nine practices are fulfillment of this context. Progressive, inclusive, and cumulative, each practice is incorporated in continuous fulfillment from activation to engagement to actualization.

The first three Activation Practices move from distinguishing what IS NOT perfect to detailing and discerning what WOULD BE perfect to acknowledgment of what IS perfection For You. This IS NOT a distinguishing of form in the sense that we are used to determining ‘things’ in our world – with a pre-set notion and attachment to that form. These Activation Practices explore essence and expression to come to a clarity rooted in pure Desire.

Continuing to explore what IS NOT it as well as what IS it, the practices build progressively on each other to naturally and inherently move us forward.

The next three Engaging Practices distinguish what IS NOT being explored to bring notice to what COULD BE explored and to raising attention to what IS being heard With Other. This IS NOT a listening limited to what we hear outside ourSelf in relationship with someone or something. These Engaging Practices include the experience of hearing inside relationship with Other and Self as an access to intimate knowing and effortless expansion.

Finally, three Actualization Practices move from distinguishing what HAS NOT been recognized to what HAS BEEN recognized to appreciation for what HAS shown up. This acknowledgment IS NOT constrained by narrow ideas and burden of proof with respect to requests for specific results. These Actualization Practices cumulate and honour the viability of what shows up as evidence and opportunity for expression of gratitude In World.

You have your own expression of the ‘Activation Engaging Actualization’ context and your own experience of The Practices of QuintessentialYou. How do you progress from activating Desire to engaging Intuition to actualizing Gratitude? What is your own innate process of the holographic Practices of QuintessentialYou?

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Watch for my next posts: Each one will introduce you to a single holographic Practice of QuintessentialYou

Emergence of The QuintessentialYou Practices

July 20th, 2009 by Kathleen

A few posts back (July 14, 2009: CONSTRUCT-PROSPER-SOURCE: The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou), I promised that I would share the story of how the Practices of QuintessentialYou came to be. In the next few posts, I will be introducing you to these Practices so now seems the perfect time to share my ‘practice-sourcing’ story.

In those areas of life in which we move with comfort and accomplish with ease, we hardly notice how we are being, what we are doing, or why it all works. In these everyday arenas of life that we might call routine or even mundane, we barely note our competence, never mind what might be considered excellence. However, others for whom organization or cooking, housecleaning or mechanics, creative endeavour or scientific understanding, etc… is not so simple, look on and marvel at our proficiency.

I am on the receiving end of this marvel when it comes to being clear on and procuring what I need and desire, particularly in the area of anything to do with the aesthetic. That includes basic needs, as well as auxilary wants for my surroundings, my clothing, creative pursuits, and gifts for others and myself. In listening to observations and comments about this so-called ‘talent’ of mine, I generally laughed it off with no second thought about it. That said, it was so obvious to some that I actually had friends and colleagues ask me how I manage to do this consistently. Finally, I began to pay attention to their wondering. I began to watch my own experience, thought process, and my behaviour.

A couple of stories come to mind that eventually had me see that I was engaged in a process of which I was completely oblivious…… until I wasn’t …oblivious anymore. As crazy as it might sound, I saw the process through which I become crystal clear with respect to desire and how that clarity moves through a series of practices to actualization.

The first instance in which I experienced the emergence of the nine practices of QuintessentialYou was in pursuit of a dress for a party to celebrate a birthday milestone. I had a clear idea of what I wanted. I had even seen the dress that would be the perfect one except for the price. One day on a very warm summer afternoon in 2004, I was sitting at a red light on a very busy corner in downtown Vancouver’s prime shopping district. I was anxious to get home for a cool drink and some relax time in the late afternoon sun. As I sat there on that corner, with no thought of the birthday outfit and certainly no desire for a shopping venture, all I kept ‘hearing’ was ‘turn the corner – go down the street to a particular store’. My unequivocal response was something like ‘no way — think again—- it’s roasting out here —- I just want to go home!’ You have to imagine, I was sitting in a major intersection at a red light arguing with mySelf!! Eventually, after what seemed like a lengthy back and forth exchange, mySelf won! I took the turn, parked the car, walked into the shop and directly to the original dress at half the price it had been when I saw it weeks before. ‘Willingness To Be Surprised”, my favourite QuintessentialYou Practice, was born.

You might say that this is just happenstance or that events like this happen all the time. Synchronicity is just part of life occasionally. And, that’s just it, synchronicty IS part of life………NOT occasionally……always!

After being present to the dress incident, I paid more and more attention, resulting in a domino effect that produced a cascade of information. I witnessed the holographic connection of states of being that lead from activation to engagement to actualization. Additionally, I could see that although the structure and process are common to being human, the experience is completely different for EveryBody.

Sometime later, after thinking about selling my car in the upcoming Autumn season, my little 14-year old convertible car sold itself to someone who left a note on my windshield, requesting to purchase it in the middle of the summer. Subsequently, I set out on a journey to purchase the next particular car that I had a clear desire to have. Partly with a sense of fun, partly now with a curiousity about these so-called QuintessentialYou Practices, I set out to have my car find me so that I might further see and understand the cumulative process in which I innocently engage.

I had a blast, say nothing of the enlightening aspect of this pleasureable experience! In addition to the kalaidescope that eventually organized itself into nine practices, I learned so much about the difference between being clear and pure in Desire versus clouded and convoluted. I also came to see that the experience of each practice is unique for each individual. Hence, although the process has a structure, it only makes a difference when we each are able to viscerally check what resonates and name it for ourSelf. Then the practices are truly the Practices of QuintessentialYou! Then and only then, the practices are an access to Activation Engaging Actualization — your structure, your process, your outcome.

It all lives in you: You for You, You with Other, You in World!

So, over the next ten posts, I will introduce you to the holographic Practices of QuintessentialYou and I will distinguish each of these nine practices. I invite you to join me on this journey and try on each practice for yourSelf, in your own life and circumstances. I trust you will have some fun as you journey and I hope you will take a few moments now and again, to share a comment or two with me.

A reminder, too, that you can begin the revelation of your own QuintessentialYou Blueprint by accepting the Gift of EssenceExpression. Allow me to gift you this first element of your Blueprint.

Contact me @ 604.732-7959 OR Kathleen@QuintessentialYouDesign.com

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Watch for my next post: Distinguishing The Practices of QuintessentialYou

Commitment & Desire – The CommitmentDesire of QuintessentialYou

July 19th, 2009 by Kathleen

“This kind of commitment begins not with will, but with willingness. We begin to listen to the inner voice that helps guide us as our journey unfolds. The underlying component of this kind of commitment is our trust in the playing out of our destiny…. knowing that whatever we need at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future.” ….Joe Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Commitment is NOT what we do. It is NOT the agreements, contracts, goals, objectives, mission, vision, or values we are dedicated to or obligated to achieve. Commitment does NOT live in will, determination, or strategy.

Commitment is a pledge to a state of being and engagement with a course of action inherent in the design of EveryBody and EveryThing. It is the essence and way into who and what we are. Commitment entrusts and guarantees InfiniteFulfillment through collaboration with each and every individual expression.

Desire is NOT what we want. It is NOT the people, places, things, circumstances, conditions, or qualities we are longing for or working to attain. Desire does NOT live in hope, aspiration, or fantasy.

Desire is the excitement of passion and the internalization of process innate to the design of EveryBody and EveryThing. It is the expression and embodiment of what and how we are. Desire is the integration and forwarding of all that is authentically ours to accomplish.

CommitmentDesire forms the uppermost and lowermost point of the holographic QuintessentialYou Blueprint. It holds EssencExpression and all the elements of the Blueprint in your quintessential marriage of individual and universal human.

You can check out CommitmentDesire here: CommitmentDesire In The QuintessentialYou Blueprint

What is the CommitmentDesire of QuintessentialYou? What is authentically yours to accomplish? How will you collaborate with InfiniteFulfillment of QuintessentialYou?

Begin today. Accept the Gift of EssenceExpression – allow me to gift you this first element and central core of your QuintessentialYou Blueprint. Contact me @

604.732-7959 OR Kathleen@QuintessentialYouDesign.com

In the meantime, visit my site @ QuintessentialYouDesign.com and learn more about the QuintessentialYou Blueprint and QuintessentialYou Design.

Watch for my next post: Emergence of The QuintessentialYou Practices

Passion & Purpose – The PassionPurpose of QuintessentialYou

July 17th, 2009 by Kathleen

Passion is both Infinite Desire and the finite object of that Infinite Desire. It is arbitrary and captivating motive for something – that state of being acted on or affected by something external to oneSelf.

The Passion of QuintessentialYou integrates where we always get results and what we are intensely fervent about. This Passion is NOT selective. It is universal – an expression of Essence. This Passion calls forth both what is foreign and what is familiar to source InfiniteFulfillment of Desire.

Purpose is the reason for which something exists and what it is used for. It is an anticipated result that is intended – a state of being pledged and engaged to fulfill a promise internal to oneSelf.

The Purpose of QuintessentialYou integrates that which is intolerable with that which gives us pleasure. This Purpose IS selective. It is individual – the essence of Expression. This Purpose is an impulse and inclination to sustain aspiration and agreement for InfiniteFulfillment of Commitment.

PassionPurpose is an element of the marriage of individual and universal human in the form of you. We often hear of people ‘looking’ for their passion, searching for their purpose. Here’s the good news – you can stop seeking. PassionPurpose is inherent in QuintessentialYou.

We don’t find PassionPurpose – PassionPurpose found and infused us.

We don’t have PassionPurpose – PassionPurpose has us.

We don’t fulfill PassionPurpose – PassionPurpose fulfills itself through us.

I invite you to stop looking. Start experiencing. Open the door to resonance and the PassionPurpose promise of QuintessentialYou.

Begin today with a Gift. Allow me to gift you your EssenceExpression – the first element of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint.

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Watch for my next post: Commitment & Desire – The CommitmentDesire of QuintessentialYou

Principle & Driver – The PrincipleDrivers of QuintessentialYou

July 15th, 2009 by Kathleen

Through the DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou, we engage in the process of becoming familiar with hidden aspects of ourSelf. The first part of CONSTRUCT identifies the unique Principles that call us forward as well as the Drivers that hold us back. This PrincipleDriver paradox exists in each aspect of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint triad: You For You, You With Other, You In World.

Just as our Blueprint includes IntentionWants, it also contains a set of truths that we each hold about life and beliefs we hold about ourselves. These truths and beliefs are the lens through which we create our circumstances, source our experience and take action….. whether we are conscious of them or not.

The beliefs we hold about ourselves motivate choices that are NOT conscious. In EveryBody and EveryThing, relationship to these compelling forces stimulates our Drivers. Drivers focus energy on pursuit of pre-determined finite results that we believe will satisfy our Wants.

These very Drivers that pull on us are also access to Principles that naturally guide us.

The truths we hold about life illuminate choices that ARE conscious. In EveryBody and EveryThing, relationship to these basic essential qualities determines our Principles. Principles expand opportunity for open-ended evolvement designed to forward our Intentions.

Any attempt to fix or escape our Drivers and the circumstances that have them present is futile. On the other hand, recognition of them and a willingness to experience them fully under these same conditions softens and integrates them with their partner Principles.

This PrincipleDriver collaboration embodies QuintessentialYou. Together, our PrincipleDrivers along with all the elements of the Blueprint facilitate InfiniteFulfillment of all that is authentically ours to accomplish.

Our PrincipleDrivers are part of who we are. Innate to us, we cannot ‘look’ for or invent them. Our access to them is through inquiry and resonance. Resonance is a visceral knowing – a knowing that is physical and experienced. It cannot be explained separate from the individual having the experience. Resonance is the ultimate honouring of our unique experience of existence – of life.

Resonance is key to how QuintessentialYou works. It is paramount in each and every inquiry and exploration in the DevelopmentConversation progression.

PrincipleDriver is the CONSTRUCT DevelopmentConversation’s first result. What are your PrincipleDrivers? What truths and beliefs compete for your recognition and acceptance?

Begin your own journey to QuintessentialYou. Accept the Gift of EssenceExpression, the central core of your QuintessentialYou Blueprint.

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Watch for my next post: Passion & Purpose – The PassionPurpose of QuintessentialYou

ConceiveConstruct-ProsperSource: The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou

July 14th, 2009 by Kathleen

For this and a few upcoming blogposts, I want to introduce you to the elements of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint revealed through the DevelopmentConversation. My intention here is to name each element, as well as show you how each one completes the form of your Blueprint. In future posts, I will define and discuss these elements to give you a clear understanding of each one.

The Conceive Inquiries which I have talked about in previous posts, establish the foundation of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. To recap, you can see each element of Conceive and its placement in the Blueprint form right here. Each element is noted in red: The QuintessentialYou Blueprint CONCEIVED

The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou is an intentional conversation series experienced in the sequence in which it originally emerged and organized itself – ConceiveConstruct/ProsperSource:

Construct introduces and has each person distinguish their own QuintessentialYou PrincipleDrivers, PassionPurpose, PracticePotential and CommitmentDesire. During the Construct DevelopmentConversation, we also become experientially familiar with the Practices of QuintessentialYou, and reveal our individual expression of these practices.

By the way, I think you will have a bit of a chuckle when you hear the way in which the practices ‘arrived’ into my consciousness! Each of us spontaneously uses our own expression of these practices in those areas of life where we always meet with accomplishment! The comfortable, practical approach that works for me resulted in my seeing the Practices of QuintessentialYou. There is power in being aware of and having conscious access to one’s practices. My favourite practice is ‘Willingness To Be Surprised’. It is perfect for both recognition and enjoyment! In future posts I will share the story of the practices and their role in InfiniteFulfillment of QuintessentialYou.

Now, back to the DevelopmentConversation………….

Prosper puts your QuintessentialYou Intentions to work in your life and as a result, you declare Realizations that make your Intentions substantial and concrete. Your perfect experience of Prosper is recognized through the marriage of what your Intentions and you desire. This experience is completely unique to every indvidual: You For You, You With Other, You In World.

Source articulates Outcomes sourced from each Realization. Outcomes are sustainable and constant expressions of each Realization revealed in Prosper. These Outcomes are consistent regardless of the form of results produced, successes achieved, accolades or things acquired. QuintessentialYou Outcomes are inherent in resulting forms. They articulate You For You, You With Other, You In World in practical terms.

Ultimately, ProsperSource brings together Realizations and Outcomes to reveal and articulate RealizationOutcome.

There you have it – ConceiveConstruct / ProsperSource and the form of your QuintessentialYou Blueprint is complete. As the journey through the DevelopmentConversation forms the Blueprint, you get you – QuintessentialYou!

Here you can view the Blueprint in its complete form with each element and its placement noted in red: The QuintessentialYou Blueprint At Completion of ConceiveConstruct-ProsperSource

Begin today by accepting the Gift of EssenceExpression. Allow me to gift you this first element that is the central core of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. Get to know yourSelf and experience the difference it makes in your existence!

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Watch for my next post: Construct Principle & Driver – The PrincipleDrivers of QuintessentialYou

How The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou Works

July 11th, 2009 by Kathleen

The Development Conversation of QuintessentialYou is an intentional conversation of current life circumstances inside the context of each individual’s QuintessentialYou Blueprint. In fact, this is exactly how the DevelopmentConversation emerged in the first place – in discussion with friends, colleagues, and clients about the circumstances of their lives and my own, using the element of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint that had revealed itself at that point in the process.

As discussions ensued and continued over coffees, meals, shared glasses of wine and long beach walks, the inquiries that presented themselves and instigated exploration led easily from one to another invariably producing recognition, realization, and the next element of the Blueprint. Sometimes this realization would make immediate sense and sometimes not. As the DevelopmentConversation progressed, there were nights when I would fall into bed at the end of the day only to be kept awake by the presence of what had shown up in an earlier exchange or insight. In these instances, I noticed that I was compelled to pay attention not to what I was ‘thinking’ but rather, to what was resonating for me. Development it seems, is a visceral experience not an intellectual one. When something is visceral, when resonance is experienced, we know it. There is no questioning, even when – perhaps, especially when we are unable to explain it rationally. Each and every time this occurred, I recorded the key ideas and processes. There were most definitely times when I recorded notes even though I was not clear as to why or what relevance my noticings had. Over time, the DevelopmentConversation organized itself into a series of inquiries and explorations ultimately revealing elements of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint and making perfect sense! It is totally engaging and exciting! Making it up or trying to fit an element into the design of the Blueprint form is futile. There is no way to ‘think’ this up, invent it, or figure it out. Reflecting over the past eight years from my current vantage point, I can only imagine that this must be what it is like to be an artist who has given her/himself over to his/her art. It is absolutely an experience of being vehicle for something bigger than oneself that wants to express itself. The experience is at once easy and challenging, routine and amazing.

Today’s DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou works exactly the same way as it was sourced:

There is first and foremost, the presencing of participants’ current experience and an update of life circumstances. In the context of one’s Blueprint and life experience the ground for recognition becomes fertile. QuintessentialYou holds every occurrence and all conditions as perfect for development. The progressive inquiry of each DevelopmentConversation accesses QuintessentialYou to effortlessly expand your recognition of your Blueprint. As each element is recognized through inquiry, it is explored in one’s natural day to day life. There are no exercises to try, no tasks to be done, no formalized conversations to have – NoThing outside of you and your existence, just as it is. Emergent circumstances provide the conditions and the experience that your QuintessentialYou Blueprint, the inquiry and exploration call forward.

Your job is to be present to your life in the context of the exploration you have received from the DevelopmentConversation inquiry. Life takes care of the rest: You For You, You With Other, You In World.

Sound amazing? It is – in its simplicity, exquisiteness, and impeccability! Join me – I would love to be in the DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou with you. It is a delightful and enlightening interaction!

Begin by accepting the Gift of EssenceExpresssion – Allow me to gift you this first element of your QuintessentialYou Blueprint.

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Watch for my next post: CONSTRUCT-PROSPER-SOURCE: The Development Conversation of QuintessentialYou

The Emergent DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou

July 10th, 2009 by Kathleen

Emergent: evolving and arising into existence naturally and spontaneously;

‘Emergent’ perfectly and succinctly describes how the DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou came to be. Of course the exact details of every event or circumstance that presented escape me now but the process itself is clear as it continues to this day. In a nutshell, living life in inquiry and exploration provides the ground for emergence. Fixing the circumstances of our lives is completely different than living in inquiry of these same circumstances. Fixing stems from our judgment that something is wrong and we need to find a way to repair it as fast as we possibly can. Inquiry and exploration are rooted in presence to what is occurring allowing it to show us for what purpose and lead us forward.

The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou emerged in the space and time given to the questions, dilemmas, and circumstances of life. These conditions include disappointments, struggles, and failures, as well as pleasures, surprises, and successes. The QuintessentialYou Blueprint and its DevelopmentConversation live in all the forms and expressions of daily existence. My life, as it turns out, is fodder for this work – a paradox itself to our worldly construct of work being fodder for life.

Always a student of life, even as a very young woman, my tendency was to look at what is behind what is said and what happens in our circumstances and conditions. Still, my orientation was my ‘fix it’, make-it-happen, determined mental strength. Then on an ordinary day in 1991, my dad took a fall and in an instant, his life and the life of every member of my family altered. A spinal cord injury changed my dad’s plans, my mother’s future, and my siblings and my relationship to life. Looking back, I think this was the defining moment that had me cross the threshold from what is ‘known’ to what is ‘unknown’, from ‘fix it’ to Mystery. This single event in all its shock and terror and sadness ultimately catapulted me out of my one dimensional determined, goal directed, I-can-make-it-happen life, successful as it seemed. It left me certain that there is literally more to life than meets the eye and that paying attention gives us access to what lies behind.

Ten years after my dad’s accident and multiple life experiences later, the DevelopmentConversation came to life. As it surfaced, I did not see patterns or process or discipline. I AM the pattern, process and discipline. The DevelopmentConversation is not made up by me. The QuintessentialYou Blueprint and its DevelopmentConversation is simply an expression of Essence Emerging Form. My job is receiving and recording it and now, sharing it with you. I don’t know what will emerge next and I don’t know what that might bring. I do know that writing this blog is what’s in front of me right now. I trust that you will find it both useful and intriguing – enough so that you will journey with me, allow me to share QuintessentialYou, and inspire you to share it with others.

The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou is progressive. Each DevelopmentConversation consists of intentional conversations that ultimately complete the form of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. Called CONSTRUCT – PROSPER – SOURCE, these conversations cover a period of one year – one hour a week on your schedule according to your time availability to intimately know QuintessentialYou. And what difference does that make? Well, it changes NoThing and makes the difference in EveryThing. QuintessentialYou, as you always have and always will be is accessed. That makes a difference to EveryThing.

Be a committment to yourSelf. Begin by accepting the Gift of EssenceExpression. Visit www.quintessentialyoudesign.com for details or Contact me @

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Watch for my next post: How The DevelopmentConversation Of QuintessentialYou Works

Development & Conversation-The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou

July 8th, 2009 by Kathleen

‘……paradoxes, (which) are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.’ …Soren Kierkegaard

Paradox is fundamental to existence, common to every human being and yet, expressed uniquely in each one. Perhaps, we must consider that as individual we are, each one of us, a ‘grandiose thought in embryo’. Acknowledging this potentiality, we arrive at a pivotal juncture.

Individually and collectively, we are held in a state between two or more forces that appear to be acting in opposition to one another. The tension between these seemingly opposing forces is essential to life. It encompasses the critical tension of our humanity. In this dynamic, humans hold the vital magnetism between nature and need, between potential and practicality, between essence and form. QuintessentialYou is simultaneously, the embodiment of this dynamic and access to it.

Acknowledging this shared paradox and its inherent mystery, we accept life itself as our context. With this acceptance comes the invitation to know ourSelf as Universal being and Individual human. It is in the embrace of this paradox that we experience the totality of our humanity—our expression and our essence, our opportunity and our potential, our intention and want. The marriage of these is the marriage of Individual human and Universal being. It is being human in its totality. It is realization of InfiniteFulfillment. It is QuintessentialYou:

EssenceExpression—OpportunityPotential—IntentionWant.

With the foundation of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint established, The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou emerged in the form of innocent conversation with family, friends, colleagues and clients. Development occurred as Conversation ensued. Paying attention, my ‘Noticing’ evolved, expanded, and recognized what has grown into a series of exploration—discovery—application conversations known as The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou.

Let’s distinguish DevelopmentConversation by separating the dual word that makes it what it is:

Development is the process through which EveryBody and EveryThing passes by degrees to a different stage—advancing and maturing. Evolution inherent to an organism gradually reveals, transforms and realizes its potential.

Conversation is the ideal form of communication— it allows people with different views to learn from each other.

DevelopmentConversation is communication for evolution of potential.

QuintessentialYou DevelopmentConversations: CONSTRUCT— PROSPER—SOURCE are designed for the QuintessentialYou Blueprint’s effortless expansion. Each is comprised of weekly inquiries that yield an element of your Blueprint. We look at the either/or-ness of life, bringing together paradoxes that bind us because we hold them separate and equally, paradoxes that have us entangled because we cannot see and segregate them.

Every DevelopmentConversation includes a journal of explorations through which the QuintessentialYou Blueprint takes full individual form. This journey is your journey—on your schedule, using the circumstances, experiences, and conversations in your life through the process of QuintessentialYou. I invite you to meet QuintessentialYou. Realize InfiniteFulfillment.

Join the DevelopmentConversation. Begin by accepting the Gift of EssenceExpression. It takes only 1-1.5hrs of your time, in person or by telephone. Inside this bit of time, experience the elegant magnetism of the EssenceExpression you are. It is your introduction to InfiniteFulfillment of QuintessentialYou. Why would you wait another moment for this opportunity?

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Watch for my next post: The Emergent DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou

Intention & Want-The Power of IntentionWant

July 6th, 2009 by Kathleen

“Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.”….Deepak Chopra

In the world of human development and consciousness, we hear much about the power of living from intention and the importance of diminishing our attachment to worldly constructs and physical form. Certainly, we have witnessed both personal and global conditions and circumstances that confirm the wisdom of these suggestions. From economics to politics, from community action to international relations, from family dynamics to workplace collaboration, there are few arenas in life where we can say that we have not seen that attachment and drive can turn into overdrive and doggedness. Likely none of us would deny or dispute this. Given almost any circumstance, we would choose the ease of intention over strict objective and the surprise in surrender over definitive attachment.

Still, we live here in this world in this human physical form surrounded by people, circumstances and things that capture our imagination and our want. Want is as real and constant in our human experience as is our innate nature to create and develop. Our intentions and our wants may seem all bundled together and pretty obvious to us until we take a moment to untangle them and look at the two through a new lens.

In doing so, we re-presence the words we use, recognizing that our current understanding is often given by cultural and social constructs and conditioning that have altered their original meanings and usage.

Consider IntentionWant:

Intention: aim that guides action

Want: absence or deficiency of something viewed as requisite

IntentionWant: guided action in the experience of absence or deficiency

Intentions we are present to and can articulate are given by an array of environmental conditions – our history, social conditions, family, education, etc…. These intentions are a likely attempt to satisfy those underlying paradoxes that make up our OpportunityPotential discussed in my 2009/07/05 post. No doubt, these intentions are an effort to satisfy an aim or a lack: our Learning OR our Yearning, our Challenge OR Gift, our Skill OR Capacity. We’re left perpetually choosing or focussing on one or the other.

Even as Intentions become clear and we make our best commitment to them, our humaness has what we Want persist. I am not speaking of miniscule ‘wants’ here. I am referring to those essential paradoxical Wants that stubbornly shadow our best Intentions, pulling us to their end of the IntentionWant continuum. Both are integral elements of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. Both are influencing and impacting each one of us continually. To distinguish their relationship is to know QuintessentialYou.

When we source IntentionWant through the lens of each OpportunityPotential element, (see 2009/07/05 post) we distinguish three fundamentally linked IntentionWants: You For You, You With Other, You In World. These three complete the CONCEIVE Inquiry Series and the foundation of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. This IntentionWant triad is not random. It is not made up. It is sourced by you from a place of resonance that you and only you know through the experience of QuintessentialYou. It is an essential part of the design of InfiniteFulfillment for you alone. Revelation of this IntentionWant triad emerges a foundation for ourSelf, provides a context for effortless expansion with other, and generates application for our contribution in the world. This IntentionWant triad is tied to the passion and purpose of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint we each are.

Are you ready to source clarity for yourSelf? Are you prepared to know yourSelf intimately? Are you willing to honour the QuintessentialYou that you are?

As always, I invite you to keep travelling with me on this writing journey as I share the elements of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. Please do pass along your comments and your questions. CONCEIVE your own Blueprint. The QuintessentialYou Blueprint ………….Join the conversation.

Watch for tomorrow’s post: Development & Conversation: The DevelopmentConversation of QuintessentialYou