I’ve spent the last couple of months in a cloister of my own making, deep in Monk Mode.

First in Mexico, then back here as Londyn and I got COVID, quarantined and reemerged better than before. (I’ll tell you that part next week.)

Stillness begets clarity. So does illness, for that matter. 

So I got a double portion of clarity. Heaping. Overflowing. 

Clarity that my life’s work is helping smart, successful people do their dreams.

Clarity that the way I do it is by helping them understand, unpack and undo their lifelong self-sabotage patterns.

Clarity that all self-sabotage is rooted in the Inner Critic within. 

Clarity that my unique method for helping transform the Inner Critic is what I call Spiritual Strategy, rooted in neurobiology, depth psychology and spiritual law (aka “the House Rules of the Universe”).

Clarity that I don’t want to work that hard anymore. 

Clarity that I’m getting away from a lot of the writing, consulting and services I’ve done in the past… so I can focus on writing and podcasting and speaking the deep, liberating messages I’m called to share.

Clarity. Clarity. Clarity. 

It’s so delicious. 

And it’s so contagious. 

My team… my clients… my vendors… my partners… everyone involved in the ecosystem of my business has been getting a contact high off all this clarity. 

It’s kinda like in the Bible where it says to “write the vision and make it plain, that they may run who read it.”

Kind of like that. 

They running. Actually, they’re FLYING. We’re all flying, all in formation… all in sync, even as things shift and change, like a murmuration of starlings. 



(Side note for leaders, entrepreneurs and parents: If your “team” is not running or if some are flying in circles or running the wrong direction, YOU might need to take a Monk Mode moment and reset your own clarity, then come back. When you come back, communicate the new vision starting with your why, and ending with all the things you won’t be doing anymore so you can focus on the new. And just watch what happens. Actually, email me so I can hear what happens.)

But back to me. 

Still on this clarity high, I went on a joyful rampage this morning, journaling the breakthrough questions I would share with someone new to me. Someone who wants to take Step 1 on the journey into fulfilling their dreams.

Inspired by the old Diana Vreeland column in Harper’s Bazaar, I started with this suggestion phrase: WHY DON’T YOU…

And then I filled in the blanks.

I loved what flowed next, so I thought I’d share it with you. 

Next time you get an inspired idea or you have a jolt of inspiration to start doing your OWN dreams, consult this list. 

TARA’S MANIFESTO 

SPIRITUAL STRATEGIES FOR DOING YOUR DREAMS

Why don’t you…?

… speak only of what you want today.

… stop complaining. No, for real.

… give your Inner Critic, Inner Censor and Inner Editor the day off today.

Stop seeking approval or permission from anyone but your Wise Inner Being.

Radiate calm while all around you lose their heads.

Decide that you can be, do and have ANYTHING you want. 

Then, let yourself want what you really want. 

Pick the subject of your wildest dream and ask yourself “how easy can I let this be?”

Receive your Divine Inheritance.

Stop performing, conforming and achieving to get love, attention, affection or approval. 

Stop trying to be so damn productive. Start being fruitful instead.

Start with why.

Commit to becoming the person you came here to be. 

Do less. Receive more. 

Stop acting impoverished. You’re not. And you aren’t serving those who really are by fondling your fear fantasies.

Decide what you really want and stop participating in everything else. 

Get rid of ⅓ of what you own. 

Stop looking for love in all the wrong places and start seeing how much love is all around you and available to you. Not later… now. 

Lose track of time and lose yourself in blissful, single-minded absorption in something that delights you just because. 

Delight in the life you’ve created up to now.

Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. 

Stop overruling your inner guidance. 

Make peace with yourself.

Heed your own inner voice. 

Start living your unlived life. 

***END MANIFESTO (FOR NOW)***

Head up + heart out,

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

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