08/05/2026
Inevitably, on Bank Holiday Monday, Paul and I went out walking for the day.
Paul decided to be the navigator. Usually, that role falls to me.
I’m the one with the route all planned - the map app open. Knowing roughly how long we’re going for, how far we’ll walk, where we’re parking, and whether there’s a lunch stop involved… all of it 😅
But this time, he said: “Jump in the car. I’m taking you for a walk.”
I imagine this is how it feels to be Nessie 😅 No idea where we were going.
No clue how long we’d be out. No route planned. Just trust, water, and a vague sense that food beforehand was probably sensible because I wasn’t entirely convinced he knew where we were heading either 😂
At points I’d look out the car window and immediately recognise where we were.
Other moments I hadn’t got a clue. It felt like a magical mystery tour through Sussex.
Eventually we arrived on the South Downs and headed up a Truleigh Hill - which absolutely lives up to the “hill” part! And, at the top, Paul pointed out two distant peaks on the horizon and said: “We’re heading there.”
They looked so far away.
No detailed plan. No overthinking. Just a direction.
And off we went.
Across open downs, through a sprawling pig farm whose residents have one of the best views in the country, and along paths we hadn’t walked before.
And somewhere during that walk, I realised how different it feels when you’re not the one navigating - when you’re the one trusting instead of leading.
It made me think about how often in my life and business I’m the one making the decisons, directing, reading the lay of the land, keeping things moving.
And how unfamiliar - and wonderful - it feels to hand that role to someone else for a while....creating space for the mind to wander...and contemplate...
A recent conversation with one of my Identity Integration clients came to mind...
She wanted to know what life would look like as she stepped more fully into this new version of herself.
How will it unfold? What will happen next? How will she know where it’s leading?
And I realised how often we want transformation to arrive with a full route map, a guaranteed outcome, clear directions, and complete certainty before we take our next step.
But life rarely works like that.
Most of the time, you can only see as far as the next bend in the path…
or the brow of the hill.
Yet somehow, step by step, the route reveals itself anyway....
That made me think about how many people are in this kind of space right now.
Career pivots.
Identity shifts.
Relationship changes.
Health changes.
That strange in-between phase where you can see something in the distance… but don't yet have the full route to get there...
Most people think confidence comes from having it all mapped out.
I’m not sure it does.
I think confidence comes from simply being willing to take the next step before everything makes sense.