RENEWAL and points of no return.
Whenever you approach a big moment your instinct will always be to PAUSE. Slow down. Not always because you are afraid but you instinctively recognize the power of a big moment.
We are there.
“What is wrong with me?”
“Why do I feel this way?”
“Why did momentum stop?”
These are the wrong questions.
Nothing is wrong with you.
It doesn’t matter why you feel that way.
And your momentum is just spinning up.
But we PAUSE so we can snapshot it.
The world does not move forward at a predictable pace. It pauses and lurches forward.
It is our ANXIETY that tries to level out all the ups and downs. But it is not necessary. REAL growth is a roller coaster ride at the tops and sometimes at the bottoms.
Whatever negativity you carry with you into your next season will have to be dealt with BEFORE you get there.
Hear me out on this:
To remove anxiety you must FEEL anxiety. You can’t just go program a blank wall over the top of it. That will work for a year or maybe if you’re lucky (like me) 6 or 7 years.
But seed always grows the same tree.
You can’t plant an apple seed and get an orange tree.
If you build your business on anxiety, fear, fatigue, and insecurity — you are going to reap the fruit of all those things regardless of how big the business gets.
The byproduct of fear is loss.
The byproduct of fatigue is burnout.
The byproduct of insecurity is labor in vain, work that does not produce anything and makes you feel gross while doing it.
You are going to be okay.
But learn this:
You are the MOST okay when you feel like you are not.
You are the most INTELLIGENT when you feel like you don’t know anything at all.
You are CLOSEST to breakthrough when you feel like you will never make it.
Backwards frontwards upside down and all over the place…
These are the moments where we pause and life reorganizes inside of a new model.
HA. You cannot control it.
But you can RIDE it.
And learn to enjoy it.
Learn how to dance.
I don’t care if it’s fcking raining. Go the fck outside and DANCE.
Laugh when you have nothing to laugh about. Then you will learn to laugh at yourself.
Celebrate the fact that you woke up — many people in the world did not and their kids wish they would have.
Eat good food and push yourself to enjoy the slow, steady, GRUELING journey of development. Every kid wishes they would grow up faster and then when they are old, they want it to slow down.
The clock never ticks backwards and it never ticks the same time twice.
Today’s river is not tomorrow’s river and you are not the same tomorrow as you were today.
It is a 1 of 1 and it is meant for you to enjoy.
No matter how far you go or how high you climb, you will never remember the moments that reforged you. Reforge sounds cool but it’s hot and everything melts except what is meant to be there.
Breathe, laugh, tell me you’re scared, let it out then let it go.
ENJOY.