I ran across this phrase a few weeks ago. I forget where or who wrote it. Here it is: your personal zone of genius. I’d never heard it before. It hit me. Wow. I mean, did you know you had one? Does everyone have one?
Turns out the answer is yes. We might call it ‘what you were born to be’. In the Hindu tradition, it is called dharma. In Jungian philosophy, it is soul purpose. In Native American tradition it is known through vision quest.
Your personal zone of genius is the place you feel in tune with the inner and the outer. It is a place of alignment and deep satisfaction. It is your place in the world.
You don’t choose it. It chooses you. It’s the way you came here…primed for your personal zone experience. It’s not what you think you should be doing or what others think, either. It’s what you know from the inside. Because it’s how you are built. It may be one big thing, but more than likely it is something that changes over time. The zone shifts and evolves.
The key is to stay open, flexible, and awake. To make decisions that keep you in the zone. To notice when it feels like you get pulled off-course. To ask yourself…am I in the zone? Is this my place right here? Is this my place in the world now?
Personal zone of genius. I like it. It’s a place I want to be in as often as I can.
In the zone. Yeah.
Paula