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154. Following Your Desire · The Shift Podcast

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Hey, you guys, welcome to episode 154 of the Shift
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podcast. I'm titling this episode
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following your desire. So I wanted to start out by
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saying about, well, we went on my trip for 12 days.
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It was about four or five days prior to my husband and my
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daughter leaving on a trip that had they have been planning for
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the last couple months to Australia and Fiji.
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I decided to go and I want to kind of like back up a little
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bit and tell you how I made that decision.
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But what I have been practicing in the last about year, year and
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a half is just really tapping into what do I desire slash what
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do I want? And really asking myself that
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question and making decisions from that.
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I feel like a lot of my life, I've made decisions and I've
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done things because it felt like the right choice or what I was
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supposed to be doing or maybe what society told me that I
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should be doing. And I just have really asked
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myself this question of, wait, what do I really desire?
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Even if it goes against the norm, even if I'm going to
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disappoint people, what is it that I want?
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And I've spent a lot of time asking myself that because I
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have been practicing it and taking action from that.
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I'm going to give you 3 examples of of how this is really shown
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up for me. And then also what's been the
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product of that, what some of my fears were going into it and
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what's been the product of it. And I hope by listening to this
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episode, you can just be thinking about us having a
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conversation across on the table from each other, maybe having
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lunch or sharing a beverage together, but just thinking
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about how you might be able to implement this for yourself.
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And so I want to start with the first example is of that.
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So I just got off this amazing trip in Fiji and Australia.
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My daughter who's 18 years old, she's getting ready to graduate
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high school. And this is kind of been on her
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bucket list to go to Australia. And we thought, or my husband
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and her planned anyway, that they would stop in Fiji first
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and then fly from Fiji to Australia after spending a
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couple days there. And the plan all along was for
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those two to go. And I was going to stay at home
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with our youngest. And I kind of was OK with that.
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And about four or five days before their trip, I was just
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like, wait, no, I want to go. I don't want to miss out.
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I want to have the memories and my daughter joked with me
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because she's she just got called to serve a foreign
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mission in South Korea for 18 months for our church.
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And she said, mom, it's just because you're going to miss me
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and you didn't want to miss making memories with me.
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And it was that, but I also just listened to the whisper and
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listening to the whisper for me was like, go and do this.
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You're never going to regret this time spending time with
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her. You might never have a trip with
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just you and her and your husband ever again.
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And so I decided to go and it was so amazing.
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I just had such a good time getting to know her more,
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spending time with just her. I don't know if if those of you
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listening who have kids, it's kind of virtually impossible,
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especially when you have multiple kids to spend that much
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alone time with them. And I have 4 kids and so she's
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also a twin. So spending time with just her
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was really amazing and something that I've never really got to
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do. So I am so glad that I got to
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go. But I know a lot of you guys are
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thinking about that trip you want to take or about that thing
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you want to do, or about that job you want to do, or about the
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career change you want to make. And you're feeling held back.
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And so this podcast episode is for you and following your
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desire. This is also something that I've
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been coaching a lot in my groups.
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Am I one-on-one about people hesitating to do that?
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I'm going to give you a couple examples of that today so you
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can see if you relate to any of them.
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But I want to give you another example, two more examples of
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kind of how I have followed my desire over the last year too.
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So if some of you guys have noticed, I have made a shift in
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my coaching programs to be doing a general life coaching now and
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my new program is called The Shift.
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It's a lifetime membership as a weekly coaching component with
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the community group chat and a member portal for you to watch
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the replays. And this is for anybody, not
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just healthcare workers and 1st responders, but anybody who
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wants to create really big things for themselves, create
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confidence and make any kind of shift in their life.
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And I titled it to the shift because I really do feel like
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all of us are always making ongoing intentional and non
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intentional shifts, whether we're trying to change careers,
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whether we're getting out of relationships, whether we're
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having kids, move out and starting a new period in our
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life. Or maybe it's something that you
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didn't intend on going through. You have a new medical, or a
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family has a new medical diagnosis, or you're taking care
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of a relative, or you're getting a divorce or you're ending a
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relationship. I just think we're constantly
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shifting in and out. And so now I'm doing general
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life coaching for anybody who wants to create big things and
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grow more confidence in their life.
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And the shift kind of originated by me starting to ask myself
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about a year ago, what is it that I really desire to coach
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on? And I've coached healthcare
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workers and 1st responders for so long.
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And flight was just something natural for me because I flew
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for seven years as a flight nurse.
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And so creating a program just felt really natural for me.
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It was a part of my identity. But now as I've left that about
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three years ago, retiring now from flight nursing and nursing
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in general, what I've desired and what I've wanted, change has
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changed. And I am noticing that I'm
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wanting to coach more people on everything because how you do
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one thing is how you do everything.
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And I'm wanting to support people and help them grow
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confidence in every single area of their life.
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And so the shift was something that originated by me just
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allowing myself to follow my desire.
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And it wasn't easy. It came with a lot of
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resistance, especially Healthcare is something that
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I've known the last 15 years. I've done it for so long.
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And so kind of to change identities of me being a coach
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that now just coach generally anybody was a big, big shift for
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me. Again, I'm going to give you a
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third example and then we're going to talk further into this
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about what this might look like or mean for you.
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And kind of like the voices that were going on in my head and the
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mindset drama that I had with each of these changes following
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my desire was also something that I really early on tuned
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into to shift from all my different careers.
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So if those of you guys have been following me for a while,
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you've heard me say that I went from broadcast journalism to
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banking, banking to nursing, nursing to flight nursing,
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flight nursing to life coaching. And I was able to make each of
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those different shifts in my career because I followed what I
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wanted. Now all of you guys know, or
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this might be you right now, where you're working in a job or
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a career where it doesn't feel fulfilling anymore, where you're
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going to it, you're clocking in and out.
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It feels a little bit like Groundhog Day, and you're
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feeling like you're just doing the job out of obligation, but
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not because you really want it and you know you're meant for
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something more. For me, I knew I didn't want to
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be stuck in that, and there were moments where I felt stuck in
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that. And so with each shift, it had
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to take a lot of courage for me to say this isn't what I meant
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to be doing. I want to find joy.
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I had to ask myself what do I really want?
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And then I had to be willing to hear silence for a while without
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man holding, getting myself to an answer without getting to
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result and just like tugging on finding it.
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I had to ask myself what do I really want and then allow
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silence for a little while. I had to give myself permission
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also to want what I want to ask myself, not what do, what does
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my family want? What do my parents want?
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What do my friends want? What do my kids want?
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What do I want? And I had to give myself full
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permission for that. The thought that I came up with
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that has moved me to make some of these big decisions.
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And my recent one of going on this trip is I want this.
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And for some of you, I know that that sounds so simple, but it's
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so much resistance in saying that or even asking yourself
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that. So I want to offer any of you
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guys who are listening, who might have resonated with doing
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things out of obligation or maybe doing a job or being stuck
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in a situation where you feel it's out of obligation or guilt.
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I want to offer for you to ask yourself, what is it?
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Do you really want? Give yourself full permission to
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ask yourself that and maybe have a little bit of silence until
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the answer comes. And when you know it comes, it
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will come. I've been coaching a lot of my
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clients lately on ending relationships, sending
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boundaries with family, or just saying no to work obligations.
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And the one reason that people don't want to do this, and I had
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a lot of mind drama with each of these decisions that I made too,
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is that you have to be willing to disappoint other people.
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Let people down, feel guilty when maybe you're doing
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something that they don't want you to be doing.
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Disappoint Co workers. When you decide you want to
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leave a job or that you're going to make a change, disappoint
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family. I mean, there were times where
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my family wasn't on board with each of the changes that I
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wanted to make, especially going from nursing to life coaching.
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They're like, what is this life coaching?
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And you're working a stable job as a flight nurse, making good
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money. You have insurance benefits now.
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You're not going to have insurance benefits anymore.
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You're going to start a business that you don't know if it's
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going to succeed or not. And so I had to have a lot of
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courage and hold belief in what I wanted was going to feel
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better than staying in a job out of obligation.
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And so you have to be willing to disappoint other people, let
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them down and feel guilty. And most people don't want to do
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this. As I'm coaching people, this is
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what's coming up, why I don't want to disappoint so and so.
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I don't want to feel lonely. I don't want to let them down.
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I don't want to feel guilty by moving departments because the
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one I'm working and I really like the people that I'm working
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with. And so if this is you, I want to
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offer you this feeling of not letting other people down and
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continuing to do something out of obligation is only hurting
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you. And it's actually more work and
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takes more energy than actually going for it and doing the thing
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and being willing to feel disappointment and guilt.
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We think it's going to take more work, but really it's not that
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it's going to take more work, it's just going to.
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It's just that we don't want to allow some of these hard
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emotions. But what's available in allowing
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these emotions on the other side of this is so much joy, so much
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peace and way more energy. And to get to that empowered
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place, you have to be willing to feel some of these emotions.
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Disappointment and letting people down, that's hard.
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You don't want to do that. But what's available on the
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other side is joy, peace, and lots of energy.
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And we think that it's going to be easier to not experience
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those just to stay in the job or stay in the relationship.
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And if those, if if that's any of you guys right now who are
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listening to this, you know, it's not easier.
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It's just taking from you. It's taking so much energy, so
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much mental capacity, looping over the same thoughts over and
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over again. And especially doing something
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that you don't want to be doing just to please someone else.
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Living a life that is true to me is available to you too.
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I can tell you now after practicing this over the last
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year, I love my life. I wake up and desire to do what
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I'm meant to be doing, and I'm living my life for me no longer
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for other people. I feel freedom, I feel love, I
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feel joy, I feel peace. I trust myself so much more in
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every decision that I'm making. And I want you to know that
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that's available to you too. We think it will take more
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energy, but really it's being willing to feel the hard
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emotions and say, hey, oh, this is what disappointment feels
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like. This is what guilt feels like
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and it's OK, I got me. I trust me.
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I trust my desire. I trust what I want and I trust
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that on the other side of this is more energy to give my
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family, my friends. I have more energy to give you
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guys as my clients. I have more energy in my
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business. I have a deep desire to coach on
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the topics that I'm coaching on. And this takes practice.
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This is take, this is taking a lot of practice for me over the
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last year. But now I've gotten to a
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quicker, quicker to be able to act on the things that I think
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are crazy. Like anybody would think it was
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crazy five days before planning a big trip to be like, oh, I
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want to go and I'm like, I'm going to make this happen.
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I'm going to figure it out. And I just want to offer for you
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practice. It's so simple.
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You're going to feel resistance to it.
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But just start with asking yourself, what do you really
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want? And for most you guys, you know
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what that is. You hear that whisper right now,
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and then give yourself permission to want what you
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want. Go on with this thought.
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I want this. Say it out loud.
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Tell yourself that and repeat it.
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Even when it feels crazy. Even when you decide to take the
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trip five days before. Because coming out on the other
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side of this feels so good. I have so much trust myself, so
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much joy again, so much peace. I want to offer this to you guys
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this week. And I also want to offer you, if
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you want help stepping into this, living the life that you
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know that you're meant to be living, come join us inside the
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shift. This is the work that we're
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doing on a daily basis, how you do everything, how you do one
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thing is how you do everything. And I'm going to help you gain
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more confidence in following what you desire.
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That's it for this week, you guys.
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I'll see you next week. Bye.
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