Tuesday’s Trench Truth

Thanks so much for stopping by for Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power and Tuesday’s Trench Truth @ Trench Classes United. I am excited to share today’s trench truth with you from a friend of our organization. She has her own business now and I am a subscriber to her newsletter/blog. When I read this, I asked if we could share it today with you and she said yes! I love her transparency and my prayer is it will inspire your own!

I am a runner.  6 months ago, I would have laughed if you would have told me I would be a runner.  I started running as an emotional and stress relieving outlet around the time of building my summit. I was in serious need of a breakthrough.

I realized that I run away from situations when I feel afraid and as part of the summit process, I needed to run towards my fears – to work through them.  I did it every day as a stand for where I was headed.  I had no idea what I was doing (summit and running) but I kept moving forward.

What happened was even in running, the same fears I have in my business started cropping up. Am I doing this right?   Am I moving fast enough?  People think I’m moving too slow.  Look at them, they look awesome…I will never look or run like that.

I have spent a LIFETIME comparing myself to others.  People have called me driven as a compliment but at the core, I was running away from who I was to who I thought I should be.  Learning has been my crutch, my catchall, and my escape.  I have a BA in ART, Masters in Business and I am a certified master life coach.  I have studied EVERY organization and time management guru, still…running away.

My two biggest takeaways from the last 6 months are these:

1.    Training and education are good but they DON’T define me or make me a better me. Tools and books are helpful in refining – they do not me forward.  Only doing, trying and facing my fears pushes me forward.  I have also let training and reading, etc. stand in my way and trip me up.

2.    I have made the journey about time. I felt like if I wasn’t achieving something fast enough I wasn’t doing it right.  I was watching time instead of pace.  Sometimes I need to move slowly and sometimes I must sprint.  Each time I get better, each mile makes me stronger.

REALITY is that I AM moving fast enough – it’s my pace I OWN it. (Own yours too!)

REALITY is that SO WHAT if people think I’m moving too slow.  They don’t know the journey.  The judgment is in my MIND, not theirs. (What judgments are you holding on to?)

REALITY is that I WON’T EVER look or be like someone else!  I’m ME!!  That’s something to celebrate! (You are you…so don’t forget it!)

REALITY is we need people in our life to give us a “thumbs up” and say “Great job!”  These are people that know the journey and the sprints you have been running or just think you’re moving forward at all is awesome and amazing.  It is OKAY to need these people in your life (another breakthrough point for me)!!

Jenn

And now, please accept this invitation to our next transform class which will give you new realities! Which reality do you want to start with today?  Join us to learn transform your life and learn how to live forgiven and forgiving!