Why You're Scared To Pursue Your Passion

You're everyone's cheerleader. You're ecstatic seeing people in your life succeed, it gets you giddy. You send messages of encouragement, acknowledgment, and support. This goes on for some time. You continue to witness people in your life fulfilling on goals and dreams and at some point, after you're done cheering, you sit back and take stock of your life.

When will it be your turn to celebrate and be celebrated? When will you have your joy come from your own wins AND the wins of your loved ones?

Why are you busying yourself celebrating others; what are you avoiding?

Maybe you're afraid that you'll fail or that those people in your life have something that you don't have. They've got the secret sauce or the skills and the resources, the reputation. They're so confident and ambitious and bold and they scoff in the face of fear. Or maybe you think that celebrating yourself is extravagant and obnoxious.

You think your problems are special and that these people are somehow unaffected by their humanity. Uh, news flash Mr. or Mrs. Ego, you're not special and neither are those people you're celebrating. You've made it a complicated mess. You've made pursuing your goals and dreams a maze with a lot of trap doors that'll take you out of the big game your dreams are demanding you play.

When really, all you have to do and all those people had to do was take one step forward. Exercise 1% more confidence. Say the thing that you have been biting your tongue about.

You're making it complicated because you believe you wouldn't be able to handle the transition out of your job, deal with the rejection, judgment or risk. Just like there's that part of you that shows up for your people to keep going in the face of challenges, that same part of you can show up for the part of yourself that's scared sh*tless. There's a part of you that can come in and call BS on the story that celebrating yourself is a waste and that what you're up to isn't a big deal.

At the end of the day, you get to choose. Will you begin to create your own life worth celebrating or stay comfortable cheering? Will you choose to create it with the support of a coach? I'm ready when you are!