Isn’t it incredible when you first something that shifts your perspective?

That happened to me yesterday when I sat down and listened to Jon Young’s Earth Talk. (Link at the bottom.)

Jon is an anthropologist. His specialism is connection.

Not just human connection.

Human-nature connection.

Human-stuff connection.

Human-everything connection.

In his Earth Talk, he described through story, example, and explanation, just how lost we’ve become as a species. Our ancestors – no matter where we come from – are the Kalahari Bushmen. They have an intelligence, a connection, a one-ness with the world that looks like prescience. In fact, it’s just being properly and deeply connected to each other and to nature.

Jon took what he learned from the Kalahari Bushmen and applied it to different people, situations, and places. The results have been nothing short of astonishing.

But one of my key takeaways is that all of this – all this “content” that’s supposed to “connect” people is bullshyt.

There is no connecting when people are isolated from each other.

There is no connecting when you’re on your device instead of in the world.

There is no connecting when you’re so pushed for time that you fail to spend time greeting, meeting in the truest sense of the word.

For many years people have commented that I’m big on community. And I am! But my version of community is get together, greet, meet, share a meal, spend time.

It’s not “productive”.

The amusing thing is that when you do this with your clients and colleagues, it’s the most productive thing you can do, over the long-term. Forging meaningful connection is building a landscape filled with ever-flowing rivers that refresh, enliven, and allow everything else to grow.

So my question to you today is:

How isolated are you? Really?

You won’t be surprised to learn that this deep connection is built into every coaching relationship I create:

They’re not professional, they’re personal. Because if it isn’t personal, then the profession will fail.

That’s a deeper statement than you might think. Chew on it, let me know what comes up for you.

Anyway, you can watch Jon Young’s talk at https://youtu.be/2xtae96m96Y.

Or, you can change your life by experiencing it as part of my coaching community, which you can read about at https://brutalpixie.aweb.page/content-athlete-coaching.

Leticia “creating humans” Mooney