Well, lots of stickies are involved and you may walk away with numerous sheets of flip chart paper to add to your office walls. And, most importantly, you sprint!

No, not literally. These are special kinds of sprints called design sprints. Design sprints come from both the software development and the design worlds. At its simplest, a design sprint identifies a set period during which you decide to complete specific work. It kind of sounds like a goal or an objective or a task on a to do list. And it is. But it’s also more.

You see, there is a reason why sprints became an essential process in both software development and design. In these professional arenas, there exists a common thread: the developers and the designers have access to Seeing the bigger picture of the overall project before they even start creating. Many visionaries work in these fields and bring with them the contribution of Sight. But sooner or later, Seeing the bigger picture has the tendency to paralyze the Seer if Seeing is not done in conjunction with Doing (where “Doing” denotes constructive Action rather than busyness).

In order not to become paralyzed, the visionary must surrender. Sight is a Gift that invites the opportunity for expansion if the visionary is willing to surrender to the organic flow of creation/Creation. For the most part, the visionary does not dictate what is Seen but the visionary can determine how much is manageable in any given moment. Since Looking at the bigger picture can feel unmanageable very quickly, sprints give the visionary a way to make the creation/Creation process comfortable for the mind and the body.

To respect the organic flow of creation while working in collaboration with the mind, the concept of sprints was established. Sprints give the mind a manageable chunk of work to process at a given time without the looming threat of “all the work that’s left to do to get this done.” The only job for the mind to do in a sprint is to focus on completing the manageable chunk of work identified within the parameters of the sprint. Simple! And oh so satisfying once the sprint is complete. The completion of every sprint can be a celebration, big or small.

Through Action comes clarity. Sprints are a construct that reinforces agility while supporting the mind in being comfortably productive. The stickies support the agility. You sequence the stickies in the order that makes the most sense and as you work through completing them, you reorder them to ensure you maintain alignment in flow. This is why notebooks don’t Serve to support design sprints; you can’t rip a page out of a notebook and insert it in a different order as you See more of your bigger picture (without tearing your notebook apart). Binders work better but stickies are the most malleable of paper products within this context. Yes, you can also go digital but anchoring insight with paper and pen is a more impactful initial step in the process as you build momentum while densifying subtlety.

A common reaction to feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of the creative process is to put up walls. The part of you that is resistant to moving through the discomfort you may face right before you create/Create puts up walls to keep the intensity of the discomfort at bay. What the resistant part of you doesn’t realize is that those very walls that it thinks keep you safe are instead stimulating stagnation.

The Soul struggles to stay connected to a Being in stagnation. If human insists on remaining in stagnation, the Soul has little other choice but to remove itself from the experience. Stagnation may mean a lack of productivity to the human, but it means something much more serious to the Soul. The Reason for a life on an experiential plane is precisely to move through the flow of creation/Creation as effortlessly as possible in order to Remember Our very nature as whole, complete, and unique expressions of Source here to Serve the Highest. But until we Remember, we cannot access our unique expressions of the creative/Creative flow. Once accessed, the main objective is to surrender to this flow.

Agility is key. The only way to keep moving forward is to be agile. By entering into a State of agility, you maintain the organic momentum of expansion instead of constructing obstacles that cause stagnation. To give you an analogy, consider the hundred-year-old tree. It does not waver in a storm. It bends and sways to the tune of the wind and the rain in order not to break but it stands firm in its roots with a focus on its bigger picture to grow tall in the space between the ground and the sky. Be the tree.

Because of the specifically calibrated Space we hold during an actualizer session, what you engage in is more than design sprints. You elevate them into Spirit sprints. Actualizers are certainly about putting into practical terms how to fulfill your Sacred Contract every step of the way. But you aren’t fixed in the mind while you sprint; you come from Spirit. When you come from Spirit in this process (we’ll hold the Space to make this manageable the whole way through), you transcend the need to rationalize every detail while being limited by the constraints of time and space. Instead, you shift out of linear planning and into the flow of Divine Sequencing where you are equipped to Be effortlessly agile as you witness the scenes on the stage unfold. The byproduct of your agility is the slowing of time, which leads to Being ahead of your time. That is when cause impacts the world in a way that goes down in history.