Hey, high achieving successful woman… you’ve done a lot, so why do you sometimes feel like you're stuck in a rut? Maybe you're feeling a little bit like you're doing the same thing like it's Groundhog Day, BUT you've had a lot of professional successes - so you shouldn’t feel a lack of satisfaction - should you? Even if you've become an expert and comfortable in where you are today, you could still feel like you are missing something. It's time to have a little bit of success in a new way. So, in this blog, I’ll share the number one thing that will create more satisfaction for you as a business owner. My personal experience Back in 2008, I tore my ACL playing rugby. If you didn't know, I was a varsity rugby player. I’ve played soccer competitively my whole life as well. I've also played lots of sports—basketball, volleyball, track and field, and I’ve done quite well at them. I've always seen myself as a competitive athlete. No matter what I went into, I won awards, and won MVPs. I don't say this to be like, “Oh, look at me. I'm so amazing.” It's more so because that's the level I was at, and there was a lot of competition, a lot of pushing myself, and striving in a way that felt so good as an athlete. Maybe you can relate in another area of your life where you were full-on in doing it. Usually, when we're in that great energy, that resonance, that’s what I talked about in the previous blog called "Hell Ya Energy." We're in that energy, that resonance, that flow, and it's really good for us. There might come a time when you're like, “Why am I not feeling that anymore?” This is where I'm talking about if you feel like you're stuck in a rut. You may be feeling a lack of the same things that you were having in the past. For me, what happened was I tore my ACL, which meant I could no longer play rugby, as I was needing ACL reconstruction and surgery, then rehab. At that time, it made me feel super depressed. I was looking at all the things in my life. I had all these successes professionally, but then I was like, “Why am I feeling off? Why am I feeling not happy, not satisfied in my life and about things?” I thought, “Wow, I don't even really have permission to complain because my life is amazing on paper.” I was trying to figure out what it was. I'm very achievement-oriented, goal-oriented, and I was doing all these things. Eventually, I hired a life coach, and I found that, in working with her, one of the key pieces that I found was that I wasn't honoring all of my values. Challenge One of my values—and I don't mean morals and ethics, I mean a value, the things that we ourselves, that we would stand on a soapbox about, that if somebody dishonored them, we'd be pissed off—one of my values was challenge. I honoured challenge in competitive sports, but in this new place, I was in this new season of being injured and not being able to play at a competitive level, not even being able to play at all. At that point in my life, I had played for 25 years and I only ever had 10 days off at Christmastime. I had always played sports and always played at a high level. It was really hard for me. I'm not saying that you've given up something big like that, or that you've been injured, but there's potentially a part of you that is missing the value that I adore, which is challenge. You may feel bored, but you're not bored—you just need a good challenge. What I realized for myself is that I needed to create challenge in my life. Because I wasn't depressed, I just needed a new challenge. The same thing could be true for you. When we are high achievers and have so much success, we are also in this place of striving and driving and wanting everything. While I now see that satisfaction is more important—we should measure life according to our satisfaction and not measure life according to our success—honoring our values is such a huge piece. Creating challenge for yourself is so important. Now, why challenge? Well, it gets you out of your comfort zone because a lot of times, you are good at all the things you do, and you know so much about everything that you do that there’s not enough spark there for you. When you have challenge, you're pushed out of your comfort zone. It has you grow and stretch, and you get to be in that growth mindset. You get to improve and find out, “Can I really do this?” because you're not an expert at it yet. I did African drumming, and I'll tell you, I sucked at African drumming. It actually looks super cool and super easy—it’s not. I was terrible, but I stuck with it, and it humbled me. I was able to sit as the student, not as the teacher. This is important because I'm sure you are so good at so many things that these are true:
But you don't always get to sit in the student seat and feel stretched and feel poured into. Taking on a challenge where you get to learn something new and put yourself out there into the world, depending on what it is. My next thing is going to be glassblowing, probably. Again, something I’m not going to be good at, and it’s going to challenge me. If you feel stuck or bored, you're neither. You just need a new challenge. You need a bold challenge, or you need a personal challenge. You've been checking off the boxes in your career or in your business, and it might be time to branch out. I gave you a few ideas. But what I encourage you to do is take a challenge that will help you professionally and also help you personally. The challenge of writing a book Here's one that I had back in 2016. I had the challenge of writing a book. I'll tell you, I sat on it for a year and did nothing with it until I agreed to provide 350 copies of my book for all the attendees at a convention. The problem is, I hadn't written the book yet! At that very moment, I took on the challenge to get it done in such a short timeframe. Now, I don't recommend doing this, but it's the thing that got me off my butt. It wasn't just the challenge piece; it was the commitment—another great C word. I took on the challenge, and then I committed to it. When I speak of challenge, you probably know challenges like a challenge when there's a service or a product that doesn't go to a customer properly, or a challenge where your CRM is down, or a challenge when your kid won’t put their shoes on. You've seen these challenges, and you face many different challenges. There are fires that you have to put out and problems that you have to solve. But what about a challenge that just helps you to grow, a challenge that helps you to feel alive and puts you in resonance? That moment, I held that book. I was on video, doing the unboxing, which was incredible. I think I might have teared up, or I was trying to be strong and not show my vulnerability, but it was such an incredible moment, a very different challenge that I was able to conquer. A challenge for you Have you thought of doing a book? Have you thought of being in a book? You have the opportunity to do it. You have the opportunity to do it with not only me, but with a bunch of other amazing women, other high achievers, other women who are having great success in their life, and they're taking on this opportunity like a fresh, exciting challenge to be able to do it. The only thing is, it's not actually going to be a challenge because everything is going to be done for you. Sounds good? Leadership Secrets Invitation Let me give you a little idea about what this is about. We've done Success Secrets. We also have Confidence Secrets, Trailblazer Secrets, and the next collaborative book is going to be Leadership Secrets. You're going to do a spread in the book. You can imagine, two pages—one side and then the other side—with a 400-word story, secrets on leadership, your bio, and some social links or connection links, so people can get a hold of you afterward. There's so much more I want to say about this, but I'll kind of pause it there because the purpose of this blog was to remind you that bringing in something fresh is going to stretch you a little bit, but it's also going to feel really exciting and new. When you've been doing what you've been doing for a while, you can get stuck in a rut and can have achieved all the things on the success side, but this can be something new. The joy of this is you will succeed. You will be published in February because you've got me as your mentor to take you through the process and make it super simple by having a book-writing strategy session, so you know exactly what to write about, how to boomerang business back to you with this piece, how to title it, how to do the whole thing. Also, another bonus that we give is a Mastermind Day, where you can ask me questions, get support from the other authors, and read your piece to others so they can give you feedback. This way, you’ll feel solid about what you're submitting. We also have editors that will edit your piece, so you don't have to worry about it looking good or sounding good—it will. After that, it's like, well, now you have a book, and because we're going to do the whole publishing process for you, at that point, it's like, "Now I have a book. What do I do?" We give you "Author in a Box"—all the press releases, all the email copy, we do a launch party for you, and we give you all the personalized, branded social media posts and videos and everything so you can promote not only the book but also you in the book. You get to celebrate! Because I'll tell you, some parts of being stuck in a rut come from not celebrating your successes, and that's so key for having the motivation to keep going. Being successful can be tiring, right? Go to this link. You’ll see all the options there. There are two options— Silver and Gold. It's going to lay out very clearly all the things you get, and I would love to call you a co-author and have you be published in February of 2025. That’d be pretty amazing. Bonus Ending September 27th at 11:59 pm PDT Doors are closing on the bonus I’m offering of a ROI strategy session with me. It's a Return on Investment Strategy Session. You want that because in it, we are going to use to strategize how you're not only going to be in this book but how you're going to get a high return on the investment that you're going to make, so you can reach your personal and professional goals. I'll tell you, that's when you're in this process you’re not going to be bored, you’ll be excited, and you're not going to feel like you're stuck in a rut because you're going to take on a safe challenge. Let me know—do you love a challenge? Do you love that vibe of bringing something new into your life? You can reach out to me at [email protected] or connect with me on one of the major platforms. Read my other blogs:
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