Day 5: Create a Wide Base of Support

Welcome to Day 5 of the Align + Flow Challenge.

So far, you have been exploring the realms of your personal energy body: feeling for energy states, using your intuition to guide you how best to use what’s there, and fuelling first to raise your energy. But your energy and thus your productivity, creativity and wellbeing are not just impacted by the world of you. There are over 7 billion fellow energy beings on this planet, all experiencing the same cycles of expansion and contraction, rest and action, outward expression and inward withdrawal. 

Today, I encourage you to take a good look at the biggest blind spot most people have when aspiring to a more productive life: not investing in their relationships with others in order to become more energy efficient. 

The Fourth Foundation of Flow is: Create a wide base of support. 

When you know where you are in an energetic cycle, you can ask for specific help from others.

Today’s challenge assignment:

In addition to doing your regular Daily Alignment Practice, consider your to-do list for today and identify at least one thing where you’d prefer to involve another person. Asking for “help” can take many forms: delegation, collaboration, advice or a fresh perspective; a co-working session, body-doubling, inspiration, cheerleading, a shoulder to cry on, emotional support, access to someone else's imagination… on and on.

Then make that ask of that person!

Choosing to invest in your wide base of support is about evaluating what energetic resources you need to be at your best, and what you have to offer others. The most energised, magnetic and productive people I know (myself included!) have designed TONS of energetic collaboration and reciprocity into all of their relationships. When we pool our energetic resources we flow together and win together.