Fear or Faith

It’s a choice.

That’s what my first coach said to me.

I’d been working with women on leaving their corporate jobs, and then someone mentioned to me that at some point, they’d want to hire me for marketing. Which of course made me second-guess myself and wonder if marketing was what I want “meant” to be doing.

The advice was that I could choose to look at this from fear - the “omg! I’ve got it wrong and should be doing marketing” - or from faith - “this is showing up as a way for me to be paid while I’m creating this new program.”

Less than six months into my entrepreneur journey, not at all aware or awakened, this concept did not resonate.

But now? Now, I get it.

If you’re someone like me, who feels “called,” like there’s a bigger purpose to what you’re supposed to do, this can be a complete mind f*ck.

The same can happen if you’re simply a #recoveringperfectionist” (no woo required.)

Yet, it still comes down to choice.

Do you choose to take a more positive outlook? Or, do you choose to not?

What’s worked for me, is to (literally) take a deep breath and ask myself, “ok, what am I (potentially) learning from this experience? What is my intuition saying?”

In the example, at the time, I asked myself “is this a test?” But, I’ve come to stop thinking that the Universe has Machiavellian tendencies. It’s all energy, which is neither good nor bad. It just is.

When things like this come up now, and they do…all the time, I take a deep breath and ask myself, “Ok, what do I think is going on? Am I afraid to launch this new service? Would I rather do X instead?”

And I go from there.

And then I give myself a mental gold star, because I recognize that this is amazing progress for me :)