Can we just take a hot second to celebrate how awesome YOU are? You and all your quirks...that make you unique, special, and one-of-a-kind. You and all your mistakes...that you're learning from every day. You and all your successes...that make you a freaking badass at what you do! You and all your faults...that strengthen your self-compassion and your immense empathy for others. Celebrate yourself and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
I have a belief. I’ll warn you…it’s quite controversial. You see, I used to have this desperate, dire fear of being wrong. GASP! NO! Say it isn’t so! From this fear-based belief, it led me down a dark and windy, lonely road to perfectionism. All or nothing. Nothing was ever good enough. 99% = Failure. Only 100% or more. Discover your belief and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Hold it together. Stay strong.These are many words that have been uttered to me this past week, as my dad slipped from this life on Wednesday, after weeks of being in the hospital.Of course, as always, they were uttered with the best intentions.Honestly, though, I don’t feel very strong.I feel very raw and real and ripped open, and if that’s strength then rock on, I’m a freaking badass.It got me wondering, why as a society do we praise and pride ourselves on strength?And more, what fear is there in being vulnerable, raw, real, and stripped of all pretense?Just because I don’t feel strong NOW doesn’t mean I’m not strong, or won’t ever be strong. In fact, quite the opposite.As a human being, you are not bound to the emotion of strength.Discover your strength and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
This whole “money mindset” was never a thing that I had to focus on. When I wanted to make $1500 a week teaching Pilates, I made $1500 a week. I set the intention, did the work, achieved the result. It never occurred to me that there was a whole mindset around money. I never started thinking about my “money mindset” until I was $40,000 in debt with a fledgling hobbyist “business,” with one client at $100/month and no notion of a sales process back in 2016. I didn’t make the connection between what had made me successful before in past businesses, sales, and money. So I made it all about money. I thought about money all the time. I thought about all the ways I could make money. I journaled about money goals. I made it all about money. I counted every penny. I was vigilant with my spending. But still, no sales. No business. And I was still stuck on the struggle bus. The problem was I made it about MONEY.
I wish I could say that I had the words these past few weeks. A shift has been needed in the world and in ourselves.
COVID gave us an opportunity to reflect on what’s most important to us. For some, it gave us a chance to align and reconnect with our families. For others, it brought into stark contrast our own escapist tactics and feelings that have been repressed or suppressed, waiting to be released “when the kids graduate.”
For some, it gave us a swift kick in the pants to pivot, realign our businesses, shift into miraculous overdrive with our productivity and creativity. And my revolutionaries - Meredith, Stuart, Kala - holy moly how proud I am of you for how you have pivoted and adapted your businesses and entire industries!!!
For others, it realigned TF out of us, to what we want, and to what the future holds for us and our industries. Is it even a business you want to be in? Is it even an industry that’s going to be around in five to ten years?
For myself, these past two months have connected me deeper into my spirituality and my relationship with God. It’s made my life a miracle - living in a land surrounded by surf and butterflies. It’s also brought into a crude light some darker patterns that needed to heal for me.
