Your Big Dreams

This week I was in a coaching session with a client who is stretching to the next level by buying property and building a dream home. Needless to say, this was a big investment that impacts both their daily life and their business. We spent much of the session discussing the anxious thoughts that have been creeping in more than usual.

Maybe you're stretching yourself in ways, too. It doesn't have to be building a home, it could be starting your own company, going for a promotion, getting a personal project off the ground, focusing on a health goal, or working in new ways. 

And, maybe you're experiencing anxious thoughts, too. Because this is what happens when we stretch ourselves — it's uncomfortable! and hard! and because we've never done this exact thing before we don't have confidence and our ego starts to squirm. Boldly reaching for your dreams is fertile ground for the mind to take over, over-think things, and worry relentlessly.

What this client was experiencing was to be expected. Under most circumstances, it was normal. 

But we're not in a normal time. We are in a post-pandemic world, coming out of three years where life got small. It wasn't that long ago we were worried there wasn't enough food on grocery store shelves, we were worried about leaving the safety of our homes, and we were worried about what a sneeze might mean. As we focused on surviving, many of our big dreams took a back seat. And now that the world has resumed, we're a bit rusty at taking risks and dreaming big. It can be even scarier to expand when our experience over the past few years was of the whole world contracting.

During the Day to Align Your Year workshop, I encouraged participants to acknowledge this, and how taking risks now might be harder right now —and that's ok. Our dreams are still worth it. Our lives are to be actively created.

Your dreams are still worth it. You can actively create your life.

I will soon be announcing details on my 2023 mastermind, which will be a high impact experience for a small number of women focused on creating 2023 as your best year yet. And whether the mastermind is for you or not, I invite you to spend some time thinking about the dreams you may have set aside and how you can begin moving toward them in fresh ways. Learn more about the mastermind here.