You can hear the call.
When you get close to it, you can feel the fire in your belly. Your energy level rises and it lights you up inside.
Maybe you’re ignoring it. Maybe you’re talking yourself out of it because the timing isn’t right. Maybe you’re waiting for permission to go ahead and do it.
Maybe you don’t feel like you are important enough, and you put it aside.
“Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.” -Albert Einstein.
2 years ago I felt like that fish.
I felt unappreciated, unheard, hurt and frustrated that my genius wasn’t valued by some of the people who I wanted to impress.
It wasn’t until I finally listened to the call….until I finally said, this lights me up and I want more of it in my life… until I made more time to explore the fire in my belly than I made excuses about why I couldn’t or shouldn’t…
It wasn’t until I finally said I’m going to start writing this blog because I want to build a tribe of people who feel the same way I do about life and I want to share absolutely everything I’ve ever learned about life in as many ways as I can until the well dries up…
I listened closely to Maya Angelou’s wisdom that said, “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
It wasn’t until I decided that showing up and regurgitating what I had been learning was more important than being perfect…
It wasn’t I heard Zig Ziglar tell me that doing something worth doing was worth doing poorly until I could do it better…
It wasn’t until I became brave enough to break my own heart and face failure head on that I started to really figure out and own my genius enough that the world could see it too.
And it wasn’t until then that I realized the only person I had to impress and convince that I was a genius was myself.
Because I am learning that there are no guarantees that things will work out, but as long as you put one foot in front of the other walking towards the fire in your belly, I am moving toward the next level.
The next level for me is to show up and teach what I’ve learned out loud and in person.
Once again I am going through all of the resistant thoughts and telling myself what Einstein, Zig Ziglar, and Maya Angelou have told me before.
Once again I have to be brave enough to break my own heart if I fall on my face.
Once again I am leaning heavily on Theodore Roosevelt’s words about the man in the arena.
Once again I’m scared I will mess up the future by failing in the present…and I’m going to do it anyway.
Be Brave enough to break your own heart. – Cheryl Strayed
P.S. for those of you who would like to come…this is the link for the form to signup.