20/04/2023
I get it,
It is a big deal to explore outside the box,
It is a big deal to try new things,
It is a big deal to do something that feels like it is stretching you to your wildest dreams.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau
One night when I was very fresh in my yoga teaching journey I had a woman I look up to tell me after I had stood with tears in my eyes,
in an empty studio space and no students to teach and I waited an extra 15 minutes in hopes someone was running late.
It was crushing for me and I could have hung it all up under the things I tried and did not continue.
But this mentor told me that this was not a defining moment for me.
Tenacity was the word she and others admitted to describing me.
Darrien you have tenacity and we love it!
Tenacity- the quality of being very determined;
persistent forward momentum with a plan;
to never stop trying to achieve a goal or even in the face of insurmountable obsacles.
I did not see this for myself. I likely scrunched my face and made a shape with my eyebrows like what? 🤨
But here is the thing. When you are doing something new and big, you do not have the evidence that you can do it.
And therefore your brain doesn’t look for evidence that you can!
This is something you have to be conscious of.
So of course your brain and your thoughts will tell you you can not do something, if does know you can do it yet.
YOU have to take the aligned action and create the evidence that you can do new things.
I took my mentors words as evidence I can do this! I can overcome difficulties and I allowed my brain to search for ways that I can try new things.
And if you are wanting to do something, try a new hobby, create a new habit, shake up your lifestyle, or start your own business
Will you shower yourself with words of encouragement or words of doubt?
Or think of yourself as a little kid, talk to them kindly and nurture that dream.
Would you tell 3 year old you - you can’t do this give up?
You are your inner child’s hero!
Drop 💜 if you are tenacious