Before I was a life coach I was a high-level event manger, planning 20,000 person events for companies in Silicon Valley.
I was good at it. Really good. But I wasn’t happy.
Why? Because it wasn’t fulfilling.
Being good at something doesn’t mean it brings you inner joy and satisfaction.
In fact, it makes you feel the opposite: stuck.
I was going to work day-after-day with a 60+ minute commute and a small baby at home and it was EXCRUCIATING.
I felt like I was wasting my life and missing out on my baby's life, and it wasn’t worth it.
The only thing that held me back was fear.
Fear that if I make a change, it wouldn’t work out (either I didn’t like it or I couldn’t make the money I wanted).
So then I asked myself, in a worst-case scenario, what would I do if that happened?
"I’d just go back to doing what I’m doing" I said.
Then it dawned on me.
My current career is my worst-case scenario, and I’m living it right now.
Do I really want to be living in my worst-case scenario?
Of course not!
So I high tailed it out of there to go seek after the inner fulfillment and joy.
And you know what I decided? I would never go back.
I want a fulfilling and joy-filled life.
And I’m not settling for anything less.
I am in charge of my fulfillment. I am in charge of my joy. I will seek it, always. No matter the risk, the discomfort, the investment…
Why?
I don’t want to waste my life.
In fact, that’s scarier to me than failure.
How about for you?
