What is your "Brilliance Sequence™"?
Brilliance Sequence™: Unlock Your Potential and Ignite Your Dream Career
Let me begin by asking you this:
What if you could design a career that truly reflects your authentic self?
Imagine a career that:
Lights you up with passion and purpose
Fills you with a sense of deep fulfillment
Empowers you to make a meaningful impact on the world
This is the promise (and the magic✨) of the Brilliance Sequence™—a transformative framework I created to help us understand how to break free from limitations, step into your power, and design a career that aligns with your true calling and reflects your authentic self.
This is more than just a "zone of genius" exercise.
It's a deep dive into the core of who you are, what drives you, and what makes you shine.
It's also about uncovering your hidden talents, embracing your vulnerabilities, and aligning with your purpose to create a career that sets your soul on fire.
Why is this so important?
Because you deserve a career that you absolutely love.
One that doesn't just “pay the bills” but fuels your soul and inspires you to reach your full potential.
The Brilliance Sequence™ addresses your deepest, most profound challenges:
Overthinking and self-doubt:
It helps you identify and move toward observing your inner critic and releasing them from their self-proclaimed diligent duties
It allows you to fully see, experience, and embrace your true worth
It illuminates how to cultivate self-compassion and release the need for perfection
It empowers you to make decisions with confidence as you’re tapping into your intuition
Fear of risk and failure:
It grants you the full visibility and further understanding of your fears, and how (and where) they hold you back
It highlights how (and where) to step outside your comfort zone and take bold action towards your dreams
It empowers you to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and learning
Feeling unseen and undervalued:
It guides you to recognize and intimately get to know yourself and all that encompasses the true you, including your talents, values, and beliefs
It ignites the attraction field that draws to you opportunities that align with your values and passions
It empowers you to confidently share your unique brilliance with the world
Lacking clarity and direction:
It identifies your strengths so you can leverage them to achieve any goal you set out for yourself
It guides you to a clearer vision for your career path and to make aligned choices that bring you joy, purpose, and impact
It empowers choice in all things you consider, strengthening your connection with your authentic self
So, where do we begin?
The Brilliance Sequence™ is a gorgeous, energetic locus.
👉 I’ll share with you a rendering on what I imagine it to be here later in our conversation (I can’t wait!!).
Because of its depth and mystery, I will continue to unpack it and deep-dive into its interworkings for the foreseeable future. This also means I won’t be able to express all its wonders in just one post.
I’d like to begin with providing a high-level understanding of what it is and what it contains or encompasses.
This way, we’re all working with the same “picture”.
Then, as I continue to explore it with you in each story-filled post, we’ll identify many of the specifics and details, further excavating its gifts and chests of treasure.
It, just like us, is incredibly multi-faceted.
But also like us, all are incredibly unique. No one person’s Brilliance Sequence™ is like any other person’s sequence.
This means your journey to understanding it is one only you can adventure on.
But doing it alongside others is where the expansive magic really comes out.
For example, your activated Brilliance Sequence™ can be felt and experienced by others. This excitement in energy (I call it vibing), in turn, helps us all connect while individually further strengthening our own.
How cool is that?
This is why I’m here. This is why the Career Clarity Community is here. If you’d like to journey alongside us, we’d be honored.
Shall we venture to understand the framework?
Queue the drumroll, please…🥁
The 5 Facets of the Brilliance Sequence™
Imagine a gorgeous series of interconnected circles.
Each is dynamic, ever-ebbing, and expanding as your experiences along your journey accumulate.
I imagine it to look something like this:
The circles begin to interplay and interflow among each other and become “illuminated with excitement”; essentially, vibing with the others. This is why you’ll see bursts of light along the edges of the circles.
I do believe our grander Brialliance Sequence™ includes many circles. The circles also can differ by person (some may have many of various sizes; others may have few grander in stature).
However, I also believe that a set of specific facets (I call them prime circles) lead our unique Brilliance Sequence™ in relation to our career or life work.
I’ve identified them as these 5 Facets:
Authenticity
Purpose
VQ - Vulnerability Intelligence Quotient
Hard Skills
Soft Skills
When all 5 Facets come into alignment, they create a powerful synergy and begin to illuminate and radiate light.
I am using Light in this way to encapsulate any of the following:
wisdom, understanding, truth, authenticity, direction, path, power
Imagine this Light, given its gravitas and power, is also our source of fuel🔥.
Fuel for a fire that:
radiates and attracts others
empowers an indefinite burn
transforms and expands into ‘warmer and brighter’ as we tend to our own light
So we’ve got the circles. We’ve got our fuel🔥. But how do we get the fire started?
All we need now is our SPARK.
The Spark of the Brilliance Sequence™: The Spark that ‘Starts’ It All
Here we come to the part that’s absolutely magical✨.
I imagine the Spark ‘moment’ to look something like this:
The Spark is the catalyst that activates or ignites the Brilliance Sequence™, unlocking your full potential and propelling you towards a career that is both fulfilling and impactful.
So, even with the most beautiful alignment of your 5 Facets, that doesn’t quite ignite (or start the fire of) your true Brilliance Sequence™.
What encompasses your Spark:
What truly ‘activates’ you
What you absolutely love or nerd out about 🤓
What you’re most passionate about
Where nothing exists except pure passion
Funnily enough, the Brilliance Sequence™ is very similar to a real fire:
Fuel sustains the fire.
Fuel grows the fire.
Fuel supplies the fire with what’s needed for its light and warmth to be experienced by all who interact with it.
But fuel doesn’t light the fire. The Spark does.
And the Spark is what creates the ignition magic✨. It’s what “starts the engine”.
So, How Do We “Start” the Fire?
If we go back to our “real” fire scenario, we need three things to start a fire:
Fuel (which is the Light generated from our 5 Facets coming into alignment)
Oxygen (which is our breathing; so as long as we’re here on this beautiful planet, we’ve got this covered!)
Heat/friction or spark (which is also called our Spark!)
If we have our materials (aka the three things above), it’s now about coordination.
Obviously, having all three in the same place is critical. As they say, location, location, location.
And this, my friends, is where vibing is the key.
Vibing, or the interplay or interflow between the 5 Facets, is what tees up all 5 Facets FOR the Spark. And if we’re also in motion, already vibing with and from our Spark, we’re cleared for ignition…
To look at it another way:
🔥 It’s the Spark that (most literally) ignites the brilliance from within you.
If your 5 Facets aren’t aligned, you have no fuel. No fuel means no fire (even if you’ve got an unlimited amount of sparks).
If your 5 Facets are aligned, but you have no Spark, you still have no fire. Instead, you’re primed with fuel.
If your 5 Facets are aligned, and you have Spark…this means fire🔥, baby!
Without the alignment of all 5 Facets and the Spark, the brilliance remains dormant.
But when all the facets come together, and the Spark ignites, you'll experience a profound transformation, not just in your career, but in your life as a whole.
Igniting Your Brilliance Sequence™
Candidly, I believe this is what happens to most of us (as Candidates, Employees, Hiring Leaders, TA Professionals, or Career Professionals).
We get caught up in the Spark, and don’t cultivate, allow, or nurture our 5 Facets for alignment.
This alignment serves as the foundation to empower the Spark when it arrives.
Instead, we become downright obsessed on “figuring out” what we want to do or identifying what lights us up instead of observing what we have in place to support the Spark itself.
We don’t explore what we’ve done to build competency for the things the Spark needs. What connections, training, or experiences we need to sustain our Spark.
And if we have, in fact, identified our Spark (or come darn close to it), we feel the initial jolt and we get really excited!
But when we don’t “feel” the fire actually started from within, we then turn our focus and reliance upon the Spark to “power us through”.
The Spark is your gorgeous dream; it’s not fuel. It’s more like your north star, positioned in the sky as a directional.
But it doesn’t power your adventure. It’s a reminder, not a sustainer.
And this is when the frustration starts to kick in.
Now, instead of allowing the dream to pull us in and be magically captivated by it, we use it instead to push.
Push to feel it.
Push to make it “bigger”.
Push to get more excited.
And then we push for it to happen.
We start to question why it isn’t happening. We tire out and then become exhausted. Then we push the Spark right out.
Allow this to be a gentle reminder: Your Spark is supposed to pull you.
So, if push isn’t the Way, what is?
How do we instead get our Spark to pull us?
My sweet friends, this isn’t just a dance. This is the dance of your LIFE!
And as with any dance, it is simply a calibration of actionable inputs.
For many professionals I work with, their fear is that they now have to “start all over” or “completely stop it all”. Maybe they aren’t a “good dancer” and this will require a complete intervention.
But all of this is untrue. We are all natural dancers, with our own natural rhythms.
To get into the “flow” of our own unique dances (yes, even two-left-feet dances can be fun and beautiful!), we instead only have to take a pause.
Yep, that’s right. A pause.
For this exact reason, this is why I say that the “magic is in the pause”.
The pause is also what I’m most passionate about teaching because I’ve been there.
I’ve felt it.
Quite honestly, I’ve suffered in it for a long time.
But once it unlocked, so did my whole world.
A Glimpse Into My Story
I pushed myself to “keep going” in my Corporate career.
By all worldly standards, I was very successful:
I worked for good companies
I had learned how to negotiate good pay (despite the imposter syndrome creeping in right when I sat at the negotiating table)
I held interesting positions that allowed me to contribute and do (and make) some pretty remarkable things
I became known as a “fixer” and “the one that could do it all” because I poured my whole self into each one of those jobs
And I didn’t stop at performance; I pushed on toward mastery.
Yet, I felt incredibly stuck. And I continued to feel incredibly stuck, despite each and every success.
I was overthinking every little thing. I let my fears take over me or change my behavior countless times.
Honestly, I didn’t recognize my unique talents. I also didn’t take the time to explore what I really wanted.
I’d often daydream of doing something I was really passionate about…but then I would start to doubt what else I could do.
So I kept pushing. But now, I was pushing those feelings down.
It wasn’t until a string of bosses took advantage of me, took credit for my work (without the pay, title, or recognition), and put me down in the process (bullying, gaslighting, and running political schemes behind my back) that I started to change my view.
Then, I read a book called “I Need Your Love - Is That True?” by Byron Katie, and it’s what startled me awake (and I wholeheartedly recommend it; it’s life-changing!).
This is the moment that I began to learn the magic of the pause.
I started to learn to take a moment to sit down, or even just a moment between breaths, to calibrate. To know where I am, what I’m doing, and where I intend to go.
It’s like a mini reset within a mini break.
Was it easy? Candidly, no.
I was strong. I was an overthinker and an outthinker. I’d get into the most serious bouts of analysis paralysis that I didn’t know up from down anymore. And then I’d freeze.
And the freeze would illicit fear. And I’d react with another push or two downward from the fear returning again.
The wildest part for me was when I realized that I was expending more effort trying to “push” my feelings around, or down, than simply pausing and connecting (or reconnecting) to the flow.
Or, essentially, leveraging my pauses to connect to and allow space for the pull.
It’s very simple in practice, but it takes some practice to develop the practice. 🙂
Was it worth it? A big h-e-double-hokey-sticks YES!
The Pull of Your Brilliance Sequence™
As we know, the only constant in life is change. Nothing, literally nothing, stays the same.
And that’s a wonderful thing! Because with change comes evolution, growth, expansion, and more of all the things we love.
More laughter. More joy. More love.
If we are instead trying to stay in one place (as I was) in one comfort zone, in one little corner we’ve carved out for ourselves, the change will eventually find us.
And it most likely means that the evolution we’ve been avoiding experiencing must now take us down the “harder” route for us to (essentially) get to the same place.
So:
we choose to evolve
OR, we choose to let it catch up with us, and then we’re shepherded through the tougher road of that same evolution
There is a pull, or a flow in life that is always available and willing to pull us.
But it can only pull us if we allow it.
I think of allowing as:
Essentially putting our guard down
Being vulnerable
Being clear on what we want, and having the trust through the connection with our inner intuition to know when (and what) is best for us
But the fact still remains: it’s all up to us.
We have a choice in what we do with the Spark:
We can push it.
We can avoid it.
Or we can allow the flow and the pull into something beautiful.
I finally allowed and deeply connected with the pull.
And I’m so glad I did.
Because now I’m here with you.
My Invitation to You
Are you ready to unlock your brilliance and create a career you truly love?
Is it time to allow for the pull?
Is it time to step into the flow and allow it to carry you through to magic✨?
🤷♀️🤷🤷♂️ If not, that’s totally okay! Ponder it and reflect upon it. Be kind to yourself, and know I am happy to support you in any way I can because I’ve been through the exact same situation (this is a common reason people join our Career Clarity Community). I will also be here when it is time.
🙋♀️🙋🙋♂️ If yes, congratulations, my friend! Mark your calendar today as the day you chose YOU. It’s an anniversary to be celebrated for years to come.
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Namaste,
💜 Lavender
PS: I’ll preview what’s to come…check out the activated Brilliance Sequence™! Incredible!
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Wonderful message! I could seriously relate to the journey and feeling the impostor syndrome. How did you come up with the brilliance sequence?