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It's Friday at 3pm. What kind of life are you crea

It's Friday at 3pm. What kind of life are you creating?

It's incredibly simple, just not always easy.

#founder #entrepreneur #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarness #stopcrushingit #foundersthriving #peace #joy #freedom

It's a happiness practice not a happiness perfect.

It's a happiness practice not a happiness perfect. Sometimes, feeling good is a powerful choice we get to make.

After a hugely successful weekend and winning her

After a hugely successful weekend and winning her industry's top award, a client of mine said to me this morning, "Even after that, it never feels like enough. Like there's never enough time to get it all done."

LIKE I WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH! #ugh 🥹

We are taught as kids that if we just work hard, make enough money, build a big enough company, hire a big enough workforce, drive a nice car, live in a big house, or marry a beautiful partner that *someday* we'll be happy

That someday we'll finally acquire enough to be happy.

Let me ask you, has it happened for you yet?

Unfortunately, all those enoughs are coming from the outside and no matter how hard we try, there's always something missing. We always need just a little more.

As we were discussing this, I had an image emerge of my little kid (my word for inner child). His little feet running as fast as he could but never being able to catch up.

See, when we're little, we always want to be grown up. But I think we grow up a little too fast and leave that little kid behind.

It's not your 30 or 40 years old self that feels "not enough". It's actually your little 8, 9 or 10 year old who's just trying to catch up with you.

But you're too busy running as fast as you can.

That little kid could give two shits about the mansion you want to live it. She just wants to play Legos and build a fort.

Our DEEP Inner Work is finding that still small voice within and coming to an understanding that there is unfinished business there.

And until we go back and make peace with that part of us who's just trying to keep up, we'll forever be outrunning our need to achieve, succeed, and obtain.

If you're done living a life that just "good enough" shoot me a DM. A new DEEP Inner Work Cohort is launching in August.

How would you like to trade in "good enough" for a bit more peace, joy, and freedom?

#entrepreneurship #startup #success #mentalhealth #stopcrushingit #innerchild #hustle #struggle #slowdown #freedom

Yesterday, I received a very simple text message f

Yesterday, I received a very simple text message from a well-established and known source that completely threw me off balance.

Today, I can read the message and not a single emotion pops up. But yesterday, when I received it, the voice that was shouting in my head (or more accurately my heart) kept saying,

"NOW YOU GO TO YOUR ROOM AND WAIT TILL YOUR DAD GETS HOME!"

This benign message - in an instant - took me back to childhood and made me feel like I had somehow done something wrong and was most assuradly going to be punished for it.

In the long ago past, I would have likely had a shot of Southern Comfort to numb the feeling. In a more recent past it would have been a Diet Coke and a cupcake.

But yesterday, I went upstairs and sat in meditation for 50 minutes. The first 40 of those minutes I simply felt the discomfort allowed the feeling to exist. I even welcomed it without resistance and allowed it to be there. I intentionally made space.

But miraculously, during the last 10 minutes, I heard this small voice repeating the words, "I promise I didn't do it...not again."

It was this young part that was scared and needed to be heard. It's these often unseen and unheard young voices that drive so much of our adult behavior and we don't even realize it.

I work with many clients who would have used this feeling as an opportunity to be ultra productive - to #killit or #crushit.

The words and the physical response may be different for each of us but every time that tiny voice pops up we are operating on version 1.0 of our programming.

But here's the amazing part. After sitting with the discomfort for less than an hour I realized I didn't need to do anything because there was nothing to fix because nothing was broken or ever has been.

This was just my nervous system responding to an old belief. One that I no longer want to believe.

We cannot walk around the fire, we can only walk through it. But it's in the middle of the fire, in the middle of the swamp, in the middle of the discomfort that MAGIC CAN AND DOES HAPPEN.

We can literally retrain our nervous system to not respond in the v1.0 way. We can upgrade to 2.0. It just takes patience and trust