What are you giving up ?
Just about 40 days ago, someone I love asked me what I was giving up for Lent. I hadn’t settled on anything at that point. I am a little embarrassed to say that, as I had been spending the bulk of my time launching my life coaching business, creating programs, scouting retreat locations, working with clients and teaching yoga classes I hadn’t taken the time to decide. However, without missing a beat, “I am giving up giving up,” came out of my mouth.
When things get tough, I am not usually one to actually give up but there is this second guessing that wastes so much time. Since I decided to create my full time life coaching business, it has been a major life style change for me. Throughout my life, I have reinvented myself repeatedly and I know it takes time, tenacity and grit. Frustration with learning new processes, managing technology, staying in the creative flow and the speed at which change happens are all like summer time popup storms thwarting the joy of splashing in the pool. (The joy of splashing in the pool=coaching for me.)
It would be easier to give up. LOTS EASIER and when the going gets tough, the snarky whining voice in my head would say, “why are doing this anyway?” Which inevitably caused stalling and even some hand wringing as that thought would whirl into other equally niggling bits, making the process even harder. All the second guessing is a huge energy drain and time suck.
Since I declared I was “giving up giving up,” it is almost as if the option to question and stall has been removed from the equation. I’ve decided to answer the little whinny voice in my head’s, “Why are you doing this anyway?” Instead if letting it keep droning on. My answer, “To help people to heal the disconnect between body, mind and spirit, to guide people through reinventing themselves, to inspire people to see the way through frustration with feeling stuck in dead end jobs, dead end relationships, dead end thoughts. To help lots and lots of people.”
When I automatically said, “I am giving up giving up,” it was like my soul was speaking what the rest of me needed to hear.
The benefit of giving up this habit has been far reaching for me creating ease and clarity around my work. Have you experienced this sort of shift? It doesn’t have to be a special season to ask yourself that same question. When it comes to facing difficulty while moving toward what you want, what could you give up?
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