I’ve started at least a dozen times—trying to put words around my experience at World Domination Summit 2012. I’ve written a sentence after sentence with quick fingers, as the sounds of the osccilating fans and the ciadas fill up the ink of the evening, but then I’ve deleted them. Again and again.

It’s unlike me to not have the words.

But that’s maybe exactly why the experience was so significant for me: It was about shifting out of my head and into my heart– letting go of “shoulds” and words, and preconceived notions, and just showing up.

“You’re experience cannot exceed your willingness to be vulnerable.” –Brene Brown

This became my measure for everything.

How willing was I to be vulnerable? How open was I to encountering inspiration, humility, gratitude, unfamiliarity, and possibility with all-out, wholehearted abandon?

The truth is, I’m serious to a fault (and a total nerd) and my default is to over-intellectualize and over-analyze everything. But it’s also true that I’ve got a heart that’s thisclose under my skin; and it’s always on the verge of busting right out of my chest with glee or wonder. And this weekend was an exercise in living into my heart.

Wholly, enthusiastically, and without expectation. I learned so much. So, so much. (More to come.)