If you’re not mindful during this “Season of Giving”, you can come down with a very scary case of the wheezy, sneezy, People-Pleasies. Or worse, the stuffy, scruffy, I’m Not Enoughies!  Might I propose a mindset shift that will set you free?  Your presence makes for the best presents.

Thriving is not about an absence of fear – you just take it with you in your pocket as you boldly dare into the beautiful unknown. Yes, living life wholeheartedly is an extreme sport: a helmet and pads are strongly recommended for the trips and falls that are bound to happen. But then the thrill goes through your spine and you can’t help but feel “this is so scary, but so satisfying!” And you want to do it all over again.

Fear is not static – it exists within us, as one of our valuable emotions.  That means that wherever we go, whatever we decide to do, we’re going to bring our fear along for the ride.

What is it about sales that bothers you, specifically? Have you ever really explored the question in depth?

Whatever your answer, I bet it’s some version of sales requiring you to do something you don’t think you can, and therefore be someone that you are not.

In the best of times, searching for new employment is an exercise in vulnerability paralleled only to the search for a new mate.  It cuts right to the gooey center of the most debilitating fear we as humans try to mask: what if I’m not good enough?  That’s in the best of times, when it’s your choice to make a change, and dream of something more for yourself.  

“I never got diagnosed because it never occurred to me that something is actually wrong…I just assumed that something is wrong with me, and if I were a better person, I wouldn’t have these struggles.”

So for years, August meant that something good (summer/my youth) were coming to an end, and harder, darker days were ahead!  YIKES!!!  But this year is different.  I’m turning 42 and am well into my 2nd year of building and living my dream life.  So when I take stock with my usual questions, I feel good about myself, and my honest answers: