3 Encounters + 6 Lessons

Encounter #1
Earlier this week I was on a call with a handful of women.   It was a scheduled call as a part of a membership community I’m in. 

In the beginning of the call, the eight or so of us in attendance were just chatting and connecting.  One woman is only 1,000 km from Ukraine, the battle field so many of us are distanced from yet very emotionally impacted by.  

To hear her voice shook me.  Not that long ago, she had vibrancy and joy in her voice, and in this call it was very somber. It was hard to understand her as the connection was choppy.  That also spoke volumes to me. 

She said “we are safe physically, but emotionally disturbed.” 

And yet here she was on this call.  Here she was taking a break from her reality to learn about something not at all related to her current situation, and to connect with other women.  It was a break, a reprieve from the hardships she is experiencing.  

Encounter #2
Also, earlier this week I spoke with a woman who lost a dear friend and business support.  They were each other's “go to” for questions and celebrations.  They were a connection to one another in this often lonely world of entrepreneurship.  

This person, with a huge gift to share with the world, was hurting & in tears on our call.  She was lost.  She  wasn’t feeling the will to keep going in her work.  She simply just didn’t want to.  But yet, she does want to keep going so badly, and that’s where the tears came from.


"How??" was her question.


She has a  want to keep going, yet there is a  lack of knowing what to do next or how to handle this grief being experienced.  She does want to keep her business going, not just for her but also for the legacy of her friend.  But sometimes feeling lost can get confused as a lack of desire to keep going. 

In connecting with her I was flooded with memories of the pain and the lost feeling I felt when my dad passed.  There was a huge lack of desire to do anything at all.  I flashed back to the days when all I could do was stare out the window and just be in a daze.  “How is the world still going on when my world has stopped?” And yet, it still keeps going, it keeps spinning ‘round and ‘round.

Eventually I found my way again.  Eventually I found my drive.  Eventually, I WANTED to be me again.  

 Encounter #3: 
Another conversation I had this week was with a fellow coach, and was entirely different from the other two shared above. She showed up vibrant, excited and with vigor to move forward.   She’s a bold and powerful force.


We met for an exciting rebrand and it was a high energy, soul-nourishing conversation of possibility, hope and love for what we both do. Our conversation was all about the future- vibrancy, abundance, joy, desire, FUN, life. It was a light in my day and yet there’s still so much depth within this special encounter. 

All three of these conversations had a common theme running through them.  That theme was resiliency. 
Resiliency doesn’t always mean that you’re beaten up, tattered and worn down.  Resiliency is showing up as YOU, as-is.  Resiliency is knowing that sometimes the world is just a dark gray place yet there is so much brightness and color to be shared.  

I share these three recent encounters in my week to say all this:

1. Keep doing your thing - It matters.  It helps people. While what you’re doing matters deeply to you, it can slo be a much welcomed light break and a slice of joy for someone else. 
2. It doesn’t have to be so serious, that thing you do. Loosen up a little bit.  What you’re doing matters a great deal.  And, yet, it totally doesn’t. The weight of the world isn’t depending on you sharing your gift.  No one is looking at you thinking “wtf is she doing?”
3. It’s so serious - I know in the statement above, I just said it’s not that serious.  Yet, it is.  Doing what you love is serious business.  While the weight of the world isn’t depending on you sharing your gifts you CAN lighten the weight of one person’s world by sharing your gift.  That matters… that matters a great deal. 
4. Light begets light.  When you do what you love and what lights you up, the world feels that light and it creates more light for others.  You going all in on your gifts is another person’s permission slip to start dabbling with their own.  That thing you do so easily could be the scariest thing that another person is doing for themselves in the day.  themselves. 
5. Bravery begets bravery.  You being you and doing your thing creates an opportunity for someone else to bravely do the same. You being you creates an opportunity for someone else to be brave. ​
6. You are so much stronger than you realize.  You can do hard things, you can face hard times, you can nurture yourself through them and fully rest the way you need to, and then one day you’ll start to get back up.  You’ll start to peel back the covers, you’ll hop in the shower, you’ll put your favorite pants on again, and little by little your strength will pull you through. 

This isn’t the time to sit back and hope for happier times to put your dreams into action.  This isn’t the time to think that what you do doesn’t matter or to think “who am I to share this with the world?” 

No.  

This is the time to double down and to go all in.  This is the time that the world needs your light and your gifts more than it ever has.  Imagine a world if more people went all in on what they really wanted to do, and showed up fully unapologetic as themselves with all their magnificent gifts on display.  It would literally be the best thing ever.  

Today I dare you, I challenge you.  Take a step forward.  Do the next right thing to bring your dreams into reality.  Why wait? Why not now? The world needs your light and vibrancy.

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