Your Why Is As Personal As It Gets

Your Why Is As Personal As It Gets

Your ‘why’ is as personal as it gets.

What do I mean by why? It’s the intersection of your values, the impact you want to make and your strongest skillset, aka gift.

When I was at the lowest point in my life, it was also when I was furthest away from my ‘why’. I was completely out of alignment with my values, I was compromising myself and had lost sight of the impact I want to make in this world.

And the comeback was all about finding my ‘why’ and stepping inside my true self again. And why this process is so personal is because you have to break through the barriers and limits you have around yourself in order to authentically discover what’s already there within yourself. You have to shift to more supporting beliefs to visualize the impact you want to make. You have to do the personal work, hold the mirrors and let go of the past in order to create a vision for an inspiring future.

That’s the reason your ‘why’ is as personal as it gets. And once you find that, then you become unstoppable, then you build confidence within yourself, then you believe you can make an impact in the world.

Don’t Let Fear Stop You

Don’t Let Fear Stop You

If I had let fear stop me, I would never have done what I’ve been able to do and achieved what I have.

Fear can be the very thing that holds us back from doing great things and tapping into the greatness and potential that lies within ourselves.

When I lived in Australia, I used to do downhill mountain bike racing. And it wasn’t about being fearless. In fact, it was about using my fear as a resource to push myself through to the next level of riding. I knew that it was fear that stood between me and the rock face or the drop that I wanted to clear. And if I could do those things, that meant that I could push beyond my fears. And if I could push beyond my fears, well then I would be free and that’s the ultimate feeling, to be absolutely free. And that’s why I ride, because I get to do that every time I get out on my bike.

And looping into personal and professional life, it’s no different. In fact, I get to use what I learn through riding and apply it to the other things where fear comes up:

  • Changing my career at 40
  • Learning a new profession
  • Signing up for a half-marathon
  • Opening my heart to love again
  • Facilitating a workshop for the first time
  • Creating an online course and hoping people will buy it
  • Putting my heart into my work and trusting that’s the way

So my question to you is if fear wasn’t stopping you right now, what would you want to do, create or change? And if you could find a way to overcome that fear, would you?

Secret To Change: Where You Focus

Secret To Change: Where You Focus

The secret of change is not about fighting the old but rather on building the new.  ~Socrates~

Easier said than done Socrates. It takes courage to face the change we’re in, accept what is, let go of what might be holding us back and learn and grow from the experience.

It takes a perspective that there are more positive things awaiting us on the other side and that it will be in fact better than where we are now.

It takes a growth mindset to focus on building the new. And that’s not for the faint hearted, as many of you know.

But what’s the alternative. When we stay focused on the past, we only get results that resemble the past. But when we focus on the future, as uncertain and unknown as it is, we open ourselves to possibilities we never could have dreamed up.

The choice is yours and starts with you. What do you choose?

Courage To Try Again

Courage To Try Again

Courage is trying again while pushing through the storm of your past that’s telling you to turn around.

The new isn’t the past my dear, it only resembles something about it. It’s all new, you are new, you are changed, you’ve grown and you are not your past.

And it takes courage to remain open to this new thing, this new experience that is happening because you are ready and you have asked for it. So, push through, dig deep and stay open. You’ll be glad you did, because this is where the sweet stuff is.

Vulnerability Is The Only Way

Vulnerability Is The Only Way

Vulnerability is the only way through the healing required to start again.

You can try to dodge it, avoid it and run from it. Trust me, I’ve tried it all. But what I’ve learned is that by doing that I only find myself in the same place over and over again.

Courage to be vulnerable opens the heart to healing, which paves the way to a new future, a new path and new possibilities.