Monday, February 8, 2021 and time to turn all the inspo into movement!
I read last night and early in the am as the sun was rising. And started moving. Nike was right with their JUST DO IT! slogan and another redhead who inspires me a lot Jenny Hutt (from Just Jenny and Sirius XM, been a huge fan since meeting her at the Book Expo in NYC more than 10 years ago) popped back into my Instagram feed this weekend. She has been preaching the power of moving all through lockdown, it woks. When I stopped moving in October, I got stuck.
Here I am trying to figure out a lot of things, and one of my biggest take aways from COIVD and also the Jamie Kern Lima BELIEVE IT book launch and even Elizabeth Gilbert’s book I am reading reading is that we are all the same, different but basically the same.
I realized I am most excited to read the members’ stories and see how they “GET UNSTUCK”. The famous people have wonderful stories and are inspirational. Knowing myself as well as I do, I believe that is the biggest thing I need in this moment.
Elizabeth Gilbert talks the quality of her writing (I am going to duck here because I have write friends and family who may not like my thoughts on this) and about being good enough and being critiqued by the greats. Excellent writes and creators are wonderful. They inspire and teach us. They report on reality and fantasy.
HOWEVER, and this is where the ducking comes in LOL, we all have a story to tell and should get it out there. Quality is subjective, read that again quality is subjective………. and really your message resonating with someone is a far better than being critically acclaimed. Your voice is not going to inspire everyone or even many, but all that matters is 1.) you birth those words because YOU need to get them out of your brain for your own well-being and 2.) there is at least one other person on this planet who needed you to birth those words, post the video, paint the thing………insert your own words for the birthing process. That person may not see it day 1 or day 100, but somewhere you will inspire someone else.
I look at the past and present and am sure from my own experiences that is true. We are all different so the more people sharing their stories and their gifts, the better.
The world needs me to be the way I am. As a I grow and deal with my hard stuff, I hope you are inspired.
Four tips I will share today:
- Move, the physical steps and activity are good for the body and soul and have a snowball effect.
- Write it, I have journaled by typing and by writing, it is therapeutic to get it out. You don’t have to send it or publish and can delete it. But release it from yourself. Also write the steps you take each day. You don’t have to get mega planners and do it, just write on simple paper the small steps you do each day. It will make it part of your day (like the am coffee) and it will grow.
- Be open to being outside your comfort zone. Not crazy skydiving levels of uncomfortableness. Small things are good, like try a new food you thought you didn’t like. Take the fork in the road. Just push yourself a little and again it will snow ball.
- You are as worthy of goodness and success as the next person. They are having results you can see because they decided to JUST DO IT. It goes back to pt 1. But it is all connected. and PS bonus tip, their lives are just as messy as yours, but we all like to put put the higlight reels out there.
Enjoy the day, enjoy the start of putting yourself out there and getting things done!
xo Tracy Lynne
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