Something just came to me in the form of the best note I’ve ever received.
A life,
a woman,
a family,
made better, more abundant, more peaceful, more free…
because of my business mentoring.
There are times I turn away from the POWER inherent in the work that I do. I’ve never been power hungry. With power comes great responsibility. And yet…
I look around the walls of WOW and I see great transformation. An influx of confidence, of GRIT, of perseverance. I see kindness and acceptance and love. I see a growing Intolerance for things that don’t matter, and a SURGE of accomplishment.
And I know that i have found my tribe.
Women entrepreneurs,
DRIVEN
by something deep inside their souls,
CALLED
into something more,
READY
to step into this calling,
and
a HEART
that says,
“NO MORE MUCKING AROUND. I’M DOING THIS. I’M DOING IT NOW, AND I’M DOING IT MY WAY.”
I’ll come back to that.
Little known truth:
I am always secretly amazed when I feel people ACTUALLY, GENUINELY like me. I’ll even say it to Chris, “I think they really like me.” OR more often… “I think we may be able to be friends.”
I.e. I might not be too much for them.
This is not
and has never been
a confidence issue.
I sort of saw it as “their loss.” lol…
I am, at my core, a loner.
Or maybe not, actually…
My first name is Barbara, which means FOREIGNER..
which is how I have always felt.
Different.
Respected but not liked.
Watched but not understood.
Tolerated but not exactly welcome.
As I read this note,
which came to me this morning…
I teared up.
Because I used to be TOTALLY okay being alone.
A loner…
it’s who I thought I was.
But in TRUTH,
now that I’ve found my people,
there’s SUCH power in our collective,
that I can’t imagine going back to doing this business alone, without this community that GETS IT,
without this sisterhood that is STRIVING with me elbow to elbow,
each in her own world…
but energetically linking arms with each other…
without this MASTERMIND of driven women who
do NOT give up,
do NOT accept no,
do NOT tolerate mediocrity and inaction, and
do NOT pump the breaks on their purpose.
It hit me today that I am NOT a loner.
Maybe I never have been.
I simply PREFERRED the “sweetness of solitude” over the noise of mediocrity.
NO, I’m not really a loner.
I am a foreigner.
And I have FINALLY found my home,
my tribe,
my friends and my sisters
within the walls of Women Who WOW.
To you all,
I BOW
to your effort,
to your consistency,
to your DARINGNESS,
to your audacity of hope,
to your love for each other,
to your responsibility to the call on your life,
to your message,
to your integrity,
to your future.
