What I was actually working on was building a huge sponsorship program, which now has all sorts of leadership committees attached to it, and projects. I thought I was working on helping build a very small, quiet sponsorship program for the studio. But it turns out what I was actually working on was all of the pre-work to launch an online studio that I didn't know I was going to launch in June. So like, at the beginning of the year, I thought I was launching my first online class in January. And I'm really glad I was working on the thing that I thought I was working on because it always turned into something bigger, more important, more impactful than I could have thought of. I thought I was working on something specific. Jen: Oh, well, just this whole experience of this year. ![]() You won't know what you're actually working on until you find out what you're actually working on. Jen: Okay, I'm trying to figure out which one of these should go first. And so if we can focus on showing up with the posture that we want to bring, then that is more than enough. ![]() I think it's the only thing really we have that's within our control, one of the only things we have that's within our control. ![]() And not only is it enough, but it's kind of all we can do. So lying face down on a rug, not so cool. And the result of that, like I said, was lying face down on a rug. Because what was not cool was the flip-side of being on all these Zoom calls, which was lying facedown on my rug out of sheer exhaustion at the end of the day, trying to give my brain a second to just compute after, I don't know, I think I was averaging like ten or eleven Zoom calls a day. And it was just one of those moments where I really needed to hear that. What can I do? What more can I do?" And my friend Mark said to me, "Pete, what if showing up is enough?" And it was just like this profound statement. That is a lot." And I had this moment on one of my calls where I was saying, "I don't think I'm doing enough. And let's talk about how we could support other communities over here." And basically, I enrolled and volunteered and started to lead so many calls that when I, like we were sharing, when I went back and looked at my calendar, I was like, "Oh my god. Pete: So I shared, I think, the story at some point, that the start of the pandemic when no one really knew what was happening and everyone started to create, you know, this Zoom call over here, and this meeting over here, and, "Let's get coaches together here. So, I have.the first one that came to mind, I think did so because I might have mentioned it in an episode at some point in the last few weeks, which was the aha moment that showing up is enough. Pete: We'll see how many we can get through. ![]() Maybe the best thing to do is just ping-pong back and forth. Pete: Well, what happened is we both pulled up our January calendar on the call and we were both like, "Oh my god, what world is this?" And then we had such shock and trauma that we had to close the calendar, and it took us two weeks to recover. So what we did was look at our calendars over the last year to see if that could help us, and it's taken us three weeks to look at our calendars to extract just a couple short aha moments. Jen: And we could not limit it to just a few aha moments. We had intended to record this episode a couple weeks ago. Jen: Before we dig in, Pete, I feel like we have to come clean with the listeners about something. Pete: What didn't we learn? What didn't we learn? This should be fun to try and keep within a twenty-minute constraint. Jen: We are nearing the end of 2020, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to look back on the decade that was 2020 and ask ourselves, "What did we learn? What are our aha moments?"
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