It’s funny how life continues to grow us…
regardless of age.
It’s also funny how life has a sneaky way of making you forget the things you always knew.
What you NEVER questioned,
what you never doubted.
For instance, as a kid, a teenager, a young adult…
I never once questioned the RIGHT way to create my ideal life.
I never considered the RIGHT degree to get. (I DID heavily consider the major I chose,
but only through the lens of which degree — of those I was interested in — provided the most options.)
I never considered the RIGHT college to attend. (Which one did I like most, going with my gut? )
I never considered the RIGHT guy to marry. Again, my heart, my soul… the MARROW in my bones just knew and I fully trusted it,.
I never considered the RIGHT place to live or the RIGHT friends to have, the RIGHT age to have kids, the RIGHT clothes to wear, the RIGHT number of years kids should be apart or the RIGHT anything really.
And this had / has nothing to do with moral rights and wrongs. It was simply I TRUSTED myself, I TRUSTED my heart, I TRUSTED my gut. And also, to my great gratitude, my parents never made a big deal of these things either.
There WERE boundaries and discussions around MORAL rights and wrongs. BUT within that… ultimate freedom.
I trusted me.
And my parents trusted me.
NOT to be perfect.
They trusted me
I trusted me
to carve my own path,
to pivot when necessary or even on a whim,
and to LIVE into my potential day by day.
I was trusted
and I FULLY trusted
that life was a DAILY creation.
This TRUST
— absolute trust —
is part of my DNA,
part of my make-up,
part of who I am,
Part of who I have ALWAYS been…
And yet STILL…
I find myself at times trying to “strategize”
the “RIGHT” way
the FASTEST way
to get where i’m destined to be,
to get where I feel I SHOULD already be.
And it never really works.
Whenever I break OUT of trusting my own gut,
whenever I slip INTO this “what SHOULD I do next?” inquiry and pursuit,
I fall into a pattern that saps my energy,
dials DOWN my magnetism,
and makes me miserable.
I literally can’t fathom why I fall into this trap from time to time, and how I don’t see it coming. I can’t imagine how i could EVER forget that that BEST decisions I’ve always made have been following my OWN intuition and gut, NEVER second guessing it, and FULLY trusting not JUST the process, but the ultimate outcome.
The thing with trust is that it is a simple yes or no.
It’s not a “almost trust” thing. It’s not a 50% trust thing. You EITHER trust yourself and God and life…. or you do not.
Life is better when you do.
Business is better when you do.
Relationships are better when you do.
Same with kids.
I TRUST my kids.
I TRUST them to know themselves,
to be TRUE to themselves,
and that EVEN the decisions I QUESTION
are part of the ULTIMATE plan to get them where they are DESTINED to be.
I trust THEM,
not to be PERFECT
but to DAILY create their life.
And I know they take both comfort AND confidence in my trust in them. As they should.
In a recent interview, I said the words, “When women are engaged with Women Who WOW, they become better women. They learn to trust themselves, to bring ALL of themselves to market, to build the business AROUND themselves… and therefore, they become more successful business owners.”
A lot of it comes down to TRUST
Trusting themselves enough to be the solution,
trusting themselves enough to go all in,
trusting themselves enough to follow through,
trusting themselves to stay the course and
at times,
trusting themselves to pivot on a dime,
and trusting themselves to know where their heart is leading them next.
This does NOT mean we don’t have hard core principles, proven marketing savvy and authentic sales acumen COURSING through the membership (and our member businesses) regularly. Of course we have these things.
But the FOUNDATION
is us bringing MORE of ourselves to market.
Becoming UN-AMAZON-ABLE
because we are in a category of one.
AND THIS…
comes down to remembering
to TRUST ourselves,
our inclinations,
our ideas,
our expertise,
and our gut.
There are MANY memberships who teach one or the other.
Tactics and strategies.
or
Mindset, Tenacity and Trust.
But I haven’t found ONE that does both in a high-drive, high-touch, high-level environment like we do at WOW. If you’d like to join, I have some fun gifts waiting on you!
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