Psyched In Stilettos

Thursday, 02 February 2012 13:25

WHO’S HAUNTING WHO IN HOLLYWOOD?

Since leaving the corporate 9-5 drill three years ago, I've been slowly uncovering / re-remembering lots of stuff I liked doing when I was younger (everything from drying herbs to watercolouring), as well as trying to figure out what my new 'career' exactly is. Or should look like. Or can be explained in 25 words or less to somebody... and after three years, I'm still struggling. That's partly because 'healing work' can't be put into a box. Some days I'm intuitively counselling people. Other days I'm writing a blog post about the body-mind connection. Next week I'll be teaching meditation, or a Masterclass, and then someone will ask me to speak to a bunch of high school students. There's lots of things I enjoy doing, there's lots of things I get paid to do, but when somebody at a dinner party asks me, "So, what do you do for a living?", invariably I'm not quite sure where to begin.
But now I have a word for what I do: I'm a scanner!
'Scanners' is the new buzz word for innovative people with lots of ideas who keep chopping, changing and evolving all the time. As this blogger says: "I belong to the scanner tribe. I never knew all along. It's a special kind of trait, just like Peter Parker [Spider Man] who had to learn how to use his special powers. I am learning to use mine as well." The biggest challenge for a scanner is choosing which idea to pursue, making it happen quickly, and turning their best ideas into something that might make them a living. Scanners are creative people with multiple interests and lots of ideas. I've also heard scanners defined as 'multi-passionate entrepreneurs' or 'multipotentialites', and there's whole websites devoted to helping scanners design their lifestyles.