A few years back this book came out called Becoming a Supple Leopard, by Crossfit dude and mobility expert Dr.  Kelly Starrett.

I loved the story behind the book’s title. 

As a child, Starrett became enthralled with leopards after learning about their movement patterns.

See, leopards are not the fastest big cats. They run about 40 miles per hour, which sounds fast, but actually makes them slower than most of their prey.

The real wild thing about leopards isn’t their speed… it’s their strength and their stealth.

Leopards don’t have to warm up.

They don’t stretch. And they don’t work out, either.

They just hide in the grass until they spot their prey, then they accelerate from 0 to maximum speed in the blink of an eye.

And that’s what fascinated Starrett: The fact that leopards have access to 100% of their power, 100% of the time. 

And that inspired his life’s mission to help humans get: 

• more access to
• more of their physical power 
• more of the time, too.

Now, let’s bring this full circle. 

My job is to help you access and actualize the fullness of your powers, too.

My job is to help you not just so you can pounce on some prey (meaning: survive). My work is to help you unpack the powers you’ve been dragging behind you* your whole life, so that you might do the things you’ve always wanted to do… and so that you might  feel the wholeness, the joy, the delectable self-respect and the radical liberation that flows when you real-ize that you can create new worlds and speak new realities into existence with the power of your mind and your soul, and your connection to All That Is.

But before I can truly help you do all that, you’ve got to stop looking for liberation in all the wrong places.

And this culture will have you looking in the wrong places.

See, with Starrett’s work, Crossfit culture says you’ve gotta focus on strength. And you do.

But what makes a supple leopard a supple leopard is strength and stealth. 

So Starrett teaches strength, but he also focuses on mobility and flexibility. Kind of counterintuitive in his culture.

And the same goes for our work together…. along your journey to fulfill your potential and your dreams, and your heart’s desires, this culture says you’ve gotta focus on strategy, accountability.

You’ve got to perform better, go harder, be a more productive Business Barbie, achieve more, make more, do more… and all of that programming can cause this whole life that just looks like frenetic, often inconsistent, frequently depleting action. 

But what makes you highly successful and highly aligned is not just strategy and it’s not just activity.

It takes:

• the right strategy… one that is aligned with who you really are and why you’re really here… 

• inspired action… the kind that feels super energizing and lights you up (instead of depleting you), and

• and it takes deep inner work… of the sort that helps you deactivate your internal limiting factors so you can actualize your True Self, this work takes place deep in your mind, your psyche, your body, and your spirit. 

If what you want is to build a business and a life that creates freedom, joy, alignment with your callings and wealth… I promise you that success is not a mystery. 

It’s a system. A method.

The highly aligned success formula includes: strategy + inner work + inspired action. 

All three. Fully integrated. Remember that part. 

We’re back to the leopard. 

There’s one more advantage leopards have that we can learn from on our quests to fulfill ourselves and our dreams as we came here to be fulfilled:  

Leopards don’t hunt in packs. They are solitary beings, unless they’re mating or raising their young.

That means leopards move in silence.

Leopards do not go on Facebook and announce all their goals.

Leopards do not go on Instagram to tell you all the behind the scenes and inner workings of what you intend to do, three, five, ten years from now.

Leopards move in silence.

And moving in silence has its privileges.

Moving in silence allows you to invest your energy internally, on your visions, your dreams, your goals, your intentions, and keep it from being scattered.

Moving in silence allows you to feel your own resonance and hear your own guidance without getting interference – static – on your channel from others.

It keeps you from doing anything you’re for the ‘gram, so to speak. 

And that’s a really good thing, because I know the online business gurus say you need to be creating 9 million pieces of highly visible social media content every hour, but the truth is that the things that will get you social media likes are often NOT the same things that will ultimately create an easeful, profitable, powerful, transformational business.

But social media ‘likes’ deliver an instant dopamine boost to your brain, so there’s that.

And so does commiserating about your struggles with your friends. Which is a thing that often happens when we start a conversation with sharing goals that we haven’t yet reached. 

Sharing the struggle feels good. And comforting. Feels like acceptance from the tribe.

I know that sharing your struggles sounds like something you should do for the sake of connection and getting support. But the truth is, sharing your struggles with your friends reinforces your brain’s negativity bias and creates a complaining rut that’s hard to get out of.

And I know that sharing your goals sounds like something you should do for accountability.

But goal science says otherwise. 

Studies show that talking about your goals significantly reduces the likelihood you’ll achieve them. 

That’s because when you talk with your friends about your goals, you create a new social reality in which the goal “feels” like it’s complete before it is. 

And that decreases the chances you’ll take the inspired action you need to take. 

Even if you hang with very positive people… they may, with all the best intentions, remind you of all the strategies you’ve tried and failed at before…

…encourage you to list out the pros and cons, which is the same as giving as much power to your Inner Critic as you give to Your Wise Inner Being, which is calling you to set and do the goal in the first place

…try to help you see pitfalls and troubleshoot problems you’re not considering, which ain’t exactly what you need to hear right now or even

… try to get you to focus on something that’s important to them, but may not actually matter that much to you, your business or your goals. 

They may want to know why you feel so positive when you haven’t made progress they can see yet.

They may want to prepare you so you’re not disappointed by reality… when what you are actually doing is creating a new reality.

And you won’t get there by paying too much attention to what is right now.

Now, in fairness to your friends, they may do all of this because they are projecting their own perceived limitations on you.

They may do these things because your vision is big and scary to them, and they unconsciously feel your relationship would be changed if you succeed.

Or they might just do these things because they’re used to seeing overnight success stories on social media, so it feels like something’s wrong if your success takes weeks, months or years.

But let me surface part of my point with this question: 

Do you know why we see so many overnight business success stories on social media? 

Because those folks… the ones who seemingly have wild, incredible overnight success at building transformational businesses… they spent the last 3, 4 or 5 years accessing their powers, fine-tuning their strategies and, yes, moving in silence.

Head up + heart out,

P.S.: I’m returning to in-person teaching for the first time since 2019! I’m about to open my SoulTour-certified Coach Training program for five days of live, in-the-flesh training this November in Oakland! 

If you’d like to answer your own calling to build a profitable coaching practice, or you want to take your coaching business to the next level of profit and impact, click here to book a 20-minute call with my Coach Certification Program Director. 

P.P.S: *Robert Bly, A Little Book on the Human Shadow

P.S.: I’m returning to in-person teaching for the first time since 2019! I’m about to open my SoulTour-certified Coach Training program for five days of live, in-the-flesh training this November in Oakland! 

If you’d like to answer your own calling to build a profitable coaching practice, or you want to take your coaching business to the next level of profit and impact, click here to book a 20-minute call with my Coach Certification Program Director. 

Tara-Nicholle Kirke, MA, Esq.
The Inner Critic Coach™️
Founder + CEO of SoulTour

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