Your Best Next Step

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There’s a saying Martha likes that goes, “A hundred years before you were born, God drew a circle around the place you're standing now." In other words, you are here because you are meant to be here—but from this place, you can literally go in any direction! So what is the best next step for you to take? That’s what Martha is talking about on this episode of The Gathering Room podcast. She shares all of the things she’s been “nerding out” over in her quest to discover her best next step: the adjacent possible, liquid networks, and what Dylan Thomas called “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.” The “adjacent possible” means something that can happen but hasn’t happened yet, and we humans are in an adjacent possible right now—it’s possible to fix everything that is broken, given the technologies we have and the ideas that we come up with. Martha says that when there's a big thing that wants to happen, the information and ideas necessary to come up with it are hidden in a kind of mosaic: We’re all equipped with different fragments that only make sense when we come together. “Whenever I am close to a best next step,” she says, “the hair on my arms prickles a lot. I feel sort of guided to certain books. I get obsessed with songs and I look them up and the lyrics give me ideas, and I am drawn to certain other people.” Martha shares how to sense when something wonderful is coming—something delicious and delightful and exhilarating and new that you've been preparing for your whole life—and allow the intelligence of nature to show you your best next step toward it. If you’re ready to take that best next step, be sure to tune in for the full episode, where Martha also shares the best next step she’s most excited about in her own life. Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.7	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:50.9	I'm Martha Beck.
0:52.4	It's so good to see you.
0:57.9	And I am so excited about the topic that I have chosen for today.
1:08.6	It's called your best next step. As opposed, not your next best step, as in the one that is next best best, but as in best one, you could take next. So imagine yourself,
1:15.9	there's this saying, I've probably said it on the gathering room before, but it goes a hundred
1:22.5	years before you were born. God drew a circle around the place you're standing now, or sitting or lying down.
1:28.8	Anyway, the point is, you are here because you are meant to be here.
1:32.4	And one thing I like to say to my loved ones to calm them down when they're upset,
1:37.2	and you can use this too.
1:39.4	I tell them, you're absolutely perfect.
1:41.4	You've never made a mistake or done anything wrong wrong and nothing in your life will ever be bad.
1:46.5	It kind of, it calms them. And we used to laugh about it. But then I started thinking, no, from a spiritual perspective, which as you know is where I like to live, I jump the tracks from the purely materialist worldview, boom, into a worldview that is not
2:02.3	purely materialist.
2:04.0	Ooh, uh-oh.
2:06.0	Too loud, not loud enough?
2:08.5	Okay, thank you.
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