I was just stretching a little bit because…I am so serious about what I'm going to share
with you today.
I even put on lipstick!
WHATTT?
You know that it's gonna be juicy if there's lipstick involved.
The one thing that you absolutely must do to make the difference that you want to make
in the world is what I'm going to be sharing about today.
I'm gonna talk about a few of the areas that pertain to this one thing and give you
some ideas on how you can move forward.
And I wanted to share about this because in the conversations that I have with y'all
about making progress and the goals that matter to you, that are so important to you.
When we start to get into the deeper layers and start to understand why it matters to
you so much.
So many of you, pretty easily, are able to share about this vision that you have for
yourself.
What you dream about, when you're on your way to your job in the morning and stuck in
traffic or when you're folding laundry or making dinner, going about the mundane parts
of your day.
There's still this thing that calls to you.
This idea.
This thing that you want to create in the world.
Before you can achieve, before you can bring that into reality, you still have to do this
one thing.
I want to share with you the moment when I decided to do that for myself.
It was about, let's see, little over two years ago now and it was a moment that happened
after a pretty big disappointment.
What I mean by that was that I had, at the time, recently joined an incredible company
called Buffer.
Some of you may be familiar with it.
They have a scheduling software and have an incredible company culture and just do all
these cool things.
It seemed like absolutely the place that I wanted to contribute my time and energy and
be part of that team and growing that company.
And so I started working with them, we had a contract period of six weeks.
By week three, it became clear that it was not a perfect match and so when the co-founder
shared that with me, and basically was like, "Listen, unless things significantly change,
we're not gonna hire you."
That to me, was like a punch in the gut.
Not that there was anything wrong with what we was saying, it's that I felt like I had
this vision, this expectation of what it was that I so wanted to do.
Then it didn't go the way I wanted it to go.
I was really upset, I remember crying in the shower.
I was so just like, "What the hell am I gonna do with my life now?"
There's that void, that vacuum, when you're experiencing disappointment, where you had
this dream, whether it was a business or a relationship or a new job and then you realize
that it's not gonna turn out that way.
So then you gotta sit with all those feelings.
So when I was sitting in that, I heard my Quiet Voice, this is what I refer to as the
most wise, spiritually connected part of myself.
It's absolutely dialed into my inner Captain, the part of me that knows what to do, that
takes action from love, that has her shit together enough to be able to get to the next
right thing.
Anyhow.
That Quiet Voice came to me and essentially said, "You need to go full-time, full-Amy."
I did not know what that meant.
I was like, "Wow, that's catchy.
Awesome!"
But there was something that was really grounded about the voice that I heard in my head that
just said, "You need to go full-time, full-Amy and you need to do it now before you put it
off further."
Before you buy into Clever Brain fear.
This was before I even knew what Clever Brain was or could articulate it.
But I knew enough that if I didn't make that decision and I didn't move forward
that I was just gonna let another year go by and then another year go by.
And I was not willing for that to happen.
So in that moment, when I heard that "You need to go full-Amy, full-time," I did the
thing that I'm gonna ask all of you to do—or at least, *consider* doing.
What I did is I chose to invest in myself.
This is the thing that we all need to do.
For you to make the difference that you want to make, whether it's starting a business,
it's putting your book out into the world, it's this great idea that you have that
you want to implement at your church or in your community.
Whatever the thing is, you have to be the one that chooses to invest it, before anybody
else.
Before you even tell anyone else about the idea.
Before you ask other people to support it.
Before you get your first investor or customer or for anybody else to get onboard—you have
to make the decision for yourself.
This is where I see so many people get stuck.
And this is where I have these conversations and I hear about these incredible things that
y'all want to do and I'm so excited and like, "YESSSSS!
YOU NEED TO GO DO IT!!!"
And then, there comes the choice.
This choice is a leap.
It is a leap of faith.
It is going well outside of your comfort zone, going far past where you feel OK about it.
That's where you start to really feel it in your body.
Your heart may start to race, you feel like you want to throw up.
Your body is having a stress response to this idea of you going to a place you have not
been before.
And then Clever Brain gets in there with all of the self-doubt and "who do you think
you are" and "you're not going to be able to do this and here's why" and "you
don't know how" and all that stuff, right?
That will come—and yet—you still have to choose to invest in yourself.
There are a few ways that you can invest in yourself.
This first one is FAITH.
You have to invest faith and belief in what it is that you want to do and this idea in
your head—that it even exists that it keeps coming back to you, that it's something
that's so strong, that you really want to be able to do this and this would be meaningful
*for you.* Whatever that is, you have to invest a belief
and a trust in you having that idea and you being the person to bring it out into the
world and birth it only the way you can.
With your voice, your life experience, your limitations, your strengths—just as you
are.
It's an invitation of sorts.
So you have to say, "yes, I will invest my faith, my belief, my trust in myself, even
though it scares the shit out of me, even though I have no idea what the hell I'm
doing, even though other people don't get it."
YOU decide.
You have to decide first.
I am so fired up that I have to reference my notes!
OK, so the next thing that you need to invest in your TIME and ENERGY.
This is a big one!
This is where Clever Brain wins all the time.
Your Clever Brain is going to talk you out taking of taking time.
It's gonna talk you out of taking action and action requires energy.
So you have to invest of yourself this time and energy into the actions, into your next
right steps, into tracking something with your Progress Map.
Into watching these Facebook Lives.
Into reading books.
All of the things that are going to be required to help you move forward, ya gotta do it.
You have to choose it.
And your Clever Brain's gonna come up with all kinds of reasons why you're too busy,
why other people depend on you, why you couldn't possibly, there's just no room in your schedule,
you've got a new job.
These are all very good reasons.
All of 'em are good reasons—and yet—there are exactly the kind of reasons that your
Clever Brain is going to use to have you put this off further.
Thinking that there's going to be some perfect, magical time for you to start doing this.
The perfect magical time is when you *decide.* And when you choose to invest time and energy
in yourself.
You make the decision and you make the commitment.
You cannot get where you want to go without doing this part, k?
Next time that you need to invest in is YOU.
This could be a number of things.
It's investing in your own well-being.
Your own self-care.
That could be the way you eat, it could be the way you sleep, how you move your body,
getting the support you need (that's a huge one), but whatever needs to happen in your
life for you to be supported and to feel well and to have the time and energy to create
that space.
You really do have to invest in yourself.
Investing in yourself also looks like learning.
It looks like education.
It looks like books that you would want to read.
Maybe events that you would want to attend.
It absolutely looks like coaching.
I am a person whose life has been dramatically improved for the better because I invested
in coaches.
I still have coaches.
I have multiple coaches.
I will have multiple coaches for—I don't know—decades!
I so believe in coaching.
That's why I am a coach.
Because you need somebody there that is going to hold your hand, if need be, initially,
whose going to listen to what it is that you want to create and show you how to shortcut.
I tell people this all the time: Coaching is what you do if you want to save yourself
time and money.
Yes, it's an investment.
Yes, it's a big deal and you can go try and figure it all out on your own and stumble
through, and it's gonna take a lot more time and it's gonna ultimately take a lot
more money because of the missed opportunities, because of the investments you'll make in
things you don't need.
So, investing in yourself could look like coaching if you are not messing around and
you really want to bring your vision into reality.
Then the last thing that you need to invest in is COURAGE.
Which may sound weird, that's fine.
But it's investing your courage, your ability to tap into whatever that is in you that will
take the uncomfortable stuff.
That will take the brave next right step.
That will decide, "yes, this is terrifying and yes, we're still gonna go forward, we're
gonna move outside of our comfort zone and we're gonna do whatever it takes to see
it through."
That's your courage.
And that's something, that, the more you practice it, the more you invest it in yourself,
the better you get at being able to do it more often with a little bit less strife.
It's really, really important for you to be able to move quickly, to make progress
exponentially.
I don't know if you guys can see my finger while I'm doing this.
But courage is absolutely necessary.
So, for you to make the difference that you want to make in the world, for you to get
where it is that you want to go, for you to have whatever it is in your head that you're
thinking about when you're sitting in traffic become your life, which is possible.
I speak as someone who has done it, who is still doing it every day—you do need to
make that choice.
Nobody can make it for you.
I can't make it for you.
Your family, your spouse, your children, you mentor.
Nobody can it for you unless you make it for yourself.
And when you do, you need to choose to invest in yourself as well.
Beyond just that initial decision.
It's not a one-time thing!
It's something that happens over and over again.
So you choose to invest FAITH, TIME and ENERGY, in YOURSELF and COURAGE.
Those are the four things that I have for you.
I've given you just a few top-level ideas in this chat.
Obviously the chat is not going to be enough to fully flesh out this vision and the path
that you would take to get there.
That is one of my favorite conversations to have.
And there's two things that you can do.
You can either comment below and share a little bit about what it is that scares the shit
out of you or you can message on this page.
Just send me a message here on Facebook.
I would love to hear more about this.
I would love to have a conversation with you and really see what it would take for you,
in a very practical, not woo-woo, crazy kind of way, but just what it's really going
to take for you to get where it is that you're going and make the difference you want to
make.
I love talking about that!
So please either comment below or send me a message.
Alright, Dears?
Excited to share this with you and happy to be with you and I look forward to the next
chat where I get to get excited and maybe wear some lipstick as well.
Bye, Dears!
Be well.
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