Day 3 of my 30-day challenge to shift my identity from the woman I’ve been to the woman I’ve always dreamed of being. For women on a non-traditional path especially, it is the shifting of one’s identity within that is the most important and the most difficult.
The most natural thing for women to do is to allow - to be in the flow of doing what is right for me, what feels right for me, and knowing that I have and am all that I need to address any urgent needs - like deadlines and such. And we women (and men as well, as or erstwhile “teachers”) have learned to do the opposite, so I have spent some years deconditioning myself.
Now I am practicing allowing. I am practicing the easing into happiness in ways that may be small, but feel to me incredibly important. Because it is a daring thing to choose happiness even for a moment. We are far more accustomed to struggle.
So here I have done what feels right and as a result I have applied to TWO speaking opportunities, and that hadn’t happened before! GOOD ON ME! I have made a start!
Now, in the video I said I would send it first - and here it is, 10PM and I’m only sending it now.
I remember my friend and podcast mentor, Bri, telling me that she sees me in my business moving up and down - kind of like an airplane trying to get off the tarmac - and then taking off. I like it. I’ll take it.
I persevere. It’s what I do. It’s how I came out of homelessness. I’ve also backed off many, many, many times. Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes … not so much for good reasons.
But this time, I’m not backing off.
The difference this time? How. It. Feels. And How. I. Approach. It.
No more fire drill-like pushing. Allowing. Finding things to appreciate and feel good about it each day. Just having good days.
Law of Attraction likes that, by the way: it’s exactly what invites it to do its thing.
Now, on to Day 4. (And by the way, though I went to the pool, I still have my laundry to do. I’m planning to use inspired action to enjoy the hell out of it.)
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