#63 A Call to Step Up
This is an important call to Step Up.
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Where are you still playing it safe? Staying in your zone of comfort?
What gift and insights are inside of you, waiting to fully express themselves?
How can you step more fully into your talents and what you came here to do and be in this lifetime?
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Episode 63 of the Project Me podcast. Hello, I hope you're well. I'm recording this podcast in Ibiza without my mic, so I don't know how it's going to sound. But when you hear the story, you'll understand why I have to record it today. I have a little story to share before I begin the main subject for this episode.
Yesterday, I was up against a work deadline and caking myself for leaving it until the last day to finish it. Unusually, I had a client session booked in for 6. 15pm, so I would need to stop for this session and then either work into the evening, or get up very early today to finish. And this is very not like me.
So, I worked all day and then it got to be late afternoon and I finally thought I need to take a break. So, I took a walk down to the post office. And rather than heading straight back, I sat down on a bench and a text message arrived right then from my mother asking what I thought about her email yesterday.
I thought, email? I don't think I got an email from her. Double checked and I replied that I hadn't received any email from her. So, she re sent it. It said, So, February 29 will be a bonus day. What will you do with it? Will you take a leap of faith for leap year? And all at once, I suddenly realized it's leap year, which means that it's not the first day of March tomorrow.
I have a whole extra day before my deadline. I felt this wave of giddy relief and wonder that her message came through just in time to save me from working in an upstream push for no reason. I'm in Ibiza and my trusty large wall calendar is hanging above my desk back in Madrid. So I'd woken up in the morning, I'd seen February 28 on my phone, and my brain thought, oh my god, it's March 1st tomorrow.
And so all day I'd been thinking I had such little time to get it all finished. Talk about being gifted an extra whole day when you genuinely didn't realize. I went on to read her email properly, and she'd linked to a blog post she found while researching how she might use this bonus day. So I clicked on the link, and it brought me to the blog page of someone called Cori Chu Healing.
The title of the blog, Are You Playing It Too Safe? 8 Signs It's Time to Take a Leap of Faith. And it was dated February of 2021. And she went on to write, when can you say that you're playing it safe? I know many people are not after the hustling life, the value, their peace. They value their peace and happily pursue a life free of competition.
They may still want to achieve something big in their life. But it's not from the place of the ego. They may not want or need the world to clap for them. That kind of life is beautiful. I think in one way or another, we should be aiming for a life that we can be proud of without the need for acknowledgement or validation.
But it also got me thinking, how do you draw the line? And I was gobsmacked because this is exactly what I have been contemplating since the start of this year. Has my desire to live a very content life of peace been holding me back from playing bigger? The blogger went on to ask in big, bold letters, Are you playing it safe?
She wrote, Imagine your life 10 years from now. , do you want to be it to be similar to how it is right now or do you want more out of it? Taking risks to improve our lives can be scary between settling for our comfort zone and investing time, effort and emotions on a goal. The former sounds much more comfortable and much more convenient.
Perhaps the big question we can ask ourselves is this. Are we willing to take risks to see greater heights, or are we settled with embracing safety and comfort at the expense of bigger, better experiences? If you're at a crossroads and wondering whether you're actually playing it safe, here are eight signs to look out for.
These signs might be telling you it's high time to take a leap of faith. And I will link to this blog post in my newsletter. And I'm going to reach out to this Cori Chu to share how I came to be reading her post and sharing it with my audience three years later. I don't believe in random coincidences.
I am always asking the universe to show me signs. And I am wide open to receiving messages that will help me on my life path. The blog post ended with the very message I needed to receive right now. It says, striking the balance. If we take that leap of faith, does it mean we let go of our peaceful, calm life?
Not really. Finding that balance between accomplishing our goals and maintaining our inner peace is very important. But in the process of attaining perpetual inner peace, it's good to remember that taking risk is a part of that journey. Our inner voice wants us to be at peace and fulfilled. So when it tells you to take that leap of faith, Give it a listen and tap into your heart.
If it's right for you, you'll know. And so, with this bonus day, I am finally recording an episode that I have been wanting to share for weeks. Thank you, Cory. Thank you, Mom. Thank you, universe, for nudging Mom to nudge me. I actually spoke to my mother last night and she says she's never given Leap Year a second thought, ever.
And she didn't know what possessed her to suddenly start looking online for how to mark this day. And then, for her to follow up with me by text when I hadn't seen her email? The universe works in mysterious ways. Here we go. Episode 63.
This is a short story to share and commit to my Word of the Year for 2024. It came to me as a message in my journal in early January. Kelly, it's time to step up this year. And I realized that step up is two words, but let's put a hyphen in it and call it one. Step up is my word of the year. When I first read this message, this calling, this order to step up, I felt super empowered.
Yes, stepping up into my full potential, doing what I came here to do in this lifetime. No more dilly dallying or beating around the bush. Yet, when I looked at it again, just a few days later, step up felt like a pressure. Stepping up and doing what exactly? Why was I putting this kind of pressure on myself?
Why isn't my word of the year something more fun or nurturing? Step up felt like maybe an unrealistic expectation I might be placing on myself. What if I do my year end reflection next January and feel disappointed in myself so I didn't commit to it? Never wrote it in big, bold letters in my 2024 Intentions Workbook.
Never added it to the Word of the Year post in my Soul Explorers community. Didn't make a phone wallpaper out of it like I usually do for my Word of the Year. And with no guiding word for 2024, I just drifted into February. But I couldn't seem to hide from it. I continued to hear the words, Step Up, like the voice of my higher self.
And then, on the new moon in Aquarius, on February 9th, something was ignited in me again. I don't know, there was this powerful new moon. I knew it was all about change and transformation, the betterment for humanity. And so I did a guided meditation in the Insight Timer app. Followed by a major journaling session under the light of that powerful new moon.
I've got my journal here, and I'd written some questions to my higher self. I wrote, What change for the betterment of humanity do I wish to see? Peace. Unity. Togetherness. Community. Cooperation. Clear communication. Open mindedness. open heartedness. And then I asked, how can I be more innovative in my daily life to serve my community or the greater good?
And I wrote, put messaging out there that will actually make an impact. Like the messages I shared during soul plan sessions about purpose, talents, challenges, unity versus division, abundance, Trust. Indecision being about a lack of trust. My intention is to step up now, share valuable content, make an impact, use my creativity to create in a much more powerful way.
I am stepping up now. And then I went on to write, the reason that I do the work I do, my why, is to lift women up into a higher perspective so they see above and beyond their challenges. Beyond their limitations, beyond their endless to do list and busyness, I want them to clearly see what is possible for them when they live with this higher perspective.
Their ability to rise up above knee jerk reactions, downward spiral emotions, judgments, worries, fears and anger. To live in a higher frequency where they feel deeply connected to themselves. And the divine and all of creation. The reason I run my High Vibe Journey program is to help women to understand themselves as energetic beings.
The reason I run my higher program is to assist them to live in the love vibration and to experience higher levels of conscious living. The reason I offer my Soul Explorers membership is to create community, connections, and bonds. The reason I am a SoulPlan practitioner is to connect people to their soul purpose.
Knowing their soul purpose in this lifetime gives them the impetus to fully activate their talents without second guessing, to step forward with confidence into their goals, to fulfill their soul destiny. This is ultimately my why. I am here to help awaken and elevate my fellow humans as we co create the future of this planet.
Unraveling old ways of doing and being that are not serving humanity as a whole. Shedding. Releasing. Transforming division into unity. War into peace. Confusion into clarity. Hate into love. Passion into purpose. Healing the collective energies. This is why I myself need to step up now. It has taken me 11 years since creating this platform to reach a place where I have the clarity, purpose, and confidence to know my greater why.
At first, it was about helping busy mothers to feel less frazzled in their day to day, time management, life balance. Then, it became to know and understand their behaviors and their emotions. Self awareness and personal development. Then, it moved into seeing beyond the self. Feeling a part of something much bigger.
From there, it evolved into a spiritual journey. A recognition. A remembering of who we are on a deep soul level. In order for them to step into their higher purpose. I must step up and model how it can be done. Stop playing it safe, trying to be something to everyone, being afraid of leaving some behind who are not quite ready yet, those who won't get it.
The more I fully embody my greater why, the more others will fully connect to their own. There is an urgency to this, not waiting another ten years to percolate and slowly evolve. I need to go for it. Now. I wrote, share this in a podcast. Share it on social media, in newsletters. And then I wrote, my biggest fear is unsubscribers.
Only because my focus for ten years has been growing my mailing list, not diminishing it. But, if those who leave my list are replaced, By those who will genuinely benefit from hearing about my messaging. That's much better. I wrote, I Do Not Fear Unsubscribers for the clear and energetic path for those to enter who are awakening, who are ready to expand.
And then I wrote, thank you, thank you, thank you, I mean, woof! Talk about not knowing what step, step up meant, and so thus, you know, spending a whole month, like, just not getting it, and so not doing anything about it. And then, ha ha ha, uh, there's another, um, there's another page I didn't realize I went on. I wrote, I'm suddenly overwhelmed with my emotions right now.
That emotion is the deepest, most heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for all who have ever been a part of my business. For their energy has touched mine and given me the energy to keep moving forward with my work. I feel the deepest gratitude to all who have ever opened and read my newsletters. Read a blog post, connected under a blog post, or commented under a blog post, engaged with me on social media, done a master your to do list session with me way back when, done a goal setting, done one of my goal setting courses, read my book, done a collaboration, attended one of my live events, watched a YouTube video, been a member of my Project Week community, attended a retreat.
Attended an online workshop. Done my high vibe journey program. Done my higher program. Done b school under me. Attended a summer soul school with me. Listened to my podcast. Been a member of Soul Explorers. had a soul plan session with me, had a soul mentoring session with me. I imagine these glowing dots of energy all around the world of all these people.
And I feel so humbled and grateful that I live in a world where I can be energetically connected in big and small ways. to so many other humans on this planet. And I remember I was crying. I was crying. I just felt like really overwhelmed by it all. It was like getting me to see all these connections that I've made over the past, you know, 11 years since I launched my website and my blog and everything.
So, um, yeah, I mean, I wrote so much more, but I'll stop there. Um, yeah, anyway, that was February 9th under that Aquarius new moon. And I have been meaning to share this. I told myself I'm going to make a podcast, I'm going to share this, so that I won't turn back. And guess what? I didn't. You know, it is now this bonus last day of February.
I told myself I was going to get this out in February and I didn't. But now I did. And now I look back at how I've felt this week, this particular week. Last week a bit, definitely. But this week, oh my gosh, I have felt so off this week. Not like physically ill, but like as if I'm energetically scrambled.
You know that static you get when you're turning the dial between two radio stations? That's what I've felt like energetically. I haven't been able to think or focus properly. I haven't wanted to sleep. It isn't like I have an energy that I'm just tired and want to sleep. You know, I get that sometimes, but I didn't have that at all.
But I also just couldn't think about what I wanted to do. I couldn't focus. Two days ago was especially bad. It probably explains why I didn't realize there's an extra day in February this year, and why I felt so unusually up against this deadline all of a sudden. It definitely explains why I didn't start my vision board until just before the vision board sharing session.
I was hosting it for my Soul Explorers membership two evenings ago. And I just like, I couldn't not share my own board when I was encouraging them to meet this deadline. I always say it's so good to have a deadline to make your vision board. So I created this deadline and said we will all gather together online on Zoom and we will go into small breakout rooms and we will share our vision boards.
And so I just, I was like, Oh my God, I haven't made my own vision board. And so I did it. And, like, with two hours to go before the, the, the, the vision board share, and as soon as I did it, as soon as I made this vision board, my energies just went, like, the dial on my inner radio station just tuned in with a clear frequency, and I have my vision board right here.
I'm looking at it now. It's filled with messages, um, the biggest word is step up, just written really big and bold in the middle. And then it says, like, I cut out all these different things that I found on Pinterest, they're like beautiful images, but with these words. In the middle it says, You are on this earth for a purpose only you can fulfill.
Honor your calling. There's another image of a woman with this glowing light and it says, Step out fearlessly knowing that the path is well planned. There's another one that's got these cosmic kind of stars and it says, By shifting your energy, you're shifting the planet. And there's another one that says be so completely yourself that everyone feels safe to be themselves too.
And it says what am I releasing to become my greatest potential? And there's a symbol that says empowered. Lots of other stuff, but basically, um, when I shared it during the session, I was so energized to share it and to see everyone else's vision boards too. I did this thing where I can, as the host, I can hop into all the different breakout rooms and just kind of glide in and see what everyone else is sharing with their small groups.
And I just got to see women from all over the world sharing out loud why they put their images and their words onto their boards and what it represented to them. It was just incredible. I went to bed so buzzing that I couldn't fall asleep for hours. And then yesterday I woke up thinking it was the last day of February.
Had that crazy day of like trying to meet this deadline. And, um, yeah, getting that message from my mother. Oh, and that client call that I mentioned that I had at 6. 15pm last night. It was an intuitive tarot session for a new person that I'd never met before. It was a referral from a beautiful soul that I'd done a tarot session for last year.
And so, just before this Zoom started, I drew a card from the Osho Zen deck for myself. And I drew completion. It shows the image of the last piece of a puzzle sliding into place, into the position of the third eye on a woman's face, the place of intuition and inner knowing. This card indicates that something has now come to completion.
The last piece of the puzzle where we can suddenly see the whole picture. You know, when you put a puzzle together and you just get to suddenly all those little pieces that you've been looking at, little fragments of you put it together and suddenly you see the whole picture and I knew right then that puzzle is complete and it's time now to begin a fresh new puzzle.
There'll be a lot of pieces that don't make sense to me right now that I can only see little fragments of images, but I just need to begin putting the new puzzle together, putting the new pieces into place. And so, that brings us full circle to how I have come to be sharing my word of the year, Step Up, on this surprise bonus day of 2024.
That blog post I received from my mother yesterday, Helped to identify the resistance that has been holding me back. I realized that my fear of stepping up was all about a fear of losing my lovely, peaceful life. I now understand. That I can hold a balance between maintaining my inner peace and taking a leap.
The last piece of this complicated, beautiful puzzle is now in place. I am ready to step up.
Dear listener, relax your forehead. Take a long, slow, deep breath in and let it out with a sigh. Where are you being called to step up? What changes for the betterment of humanity do you wish to see? Where are you still playing it safe? Staying in your comfort zone?
Which thought patterns are you ready to release? What gifts and insights are inside of you, waiting to fully express themselves? How can you step more fully into your talents, and what you came here to do and be in this lifetime? This is your call to take a leap during this leap year.
Thank you for listening to the Project Me podcast. I'm very grateful if you would share this episode with a friend. The more of us that heed the calling to step up, the better the whole world will be by the time the next leap year comes around in four years. Take a screenshot and share it on your social media stories.
You can tag me, kellyprojectme, and use the hashtag stepup. Join my newsletter list over at my new website kellypietrangeli. com. My newsletter subscribers will now begin to receive more links to group online meditations, books, invites to online gatherings. Part of my stepping up is offering more to my greater community, not just keeping everything for my members.
My members will always get that connection and that ongoing, you know, community with each other and with me, but I am now going to be doing more for my bigger community. I've got this amazing newsletter list of women from all over the world. And if you're not on it yet, really invite you to join. I'll put the link in the show notes to my website, Kelly, petrangeli.
com. You can also email me to share what you think of this podcast. I'll love to hear how you are going to step up this year. You can email me hello at myprojectme. com. Until next time, open your mind, open your heart, and stay curious. We all need some space in our lives for the magical and unknown.