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Being Your Best Self: Why Wait Until New Year
What if you don't have to wait until the New Year to start manifesting your best self? This episode unravels my own transformative journey towards becoming a better version of myself. Offering a fresh perspective on New Year's resolutions, I make a case for why you should start your journey towards self-improvement right now, and how focusing on 'being' rather than 'doing' can propel you towards achieving this goal.
Join me, as we examine the power of setting intentions and focusing on our desires. I share my own perspective shift around being my best self, which led me down a path of understanding what being my best self truly meant. Through this, I unearth the extraordinary role of being intentional, purposeful, and in control of our energy, all leading to a life full of ease and spaciousness.
Lastly, I extend a special invite to join me in my private Facebook group, Wildly Abundant Women. Here, we'll continue to unearth ways we can profoundly change our lives, focusing on visualization and finding what works best for us. Together, let's redefine what being the best version of yourself means, and rewrite the narrative of how we view ourselves, full of balance, joy, and the best version of ourselves! It's time to seize the day and start your journey - because the best time to start is always now.
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Hello, welcome back to the Claim, your Awesome podcast. I'm your host, jess, and we are so close to 2024. I don't know where the time has gone this year. For me it feels like it has just flown by faster than usual, and I really don't like talking about the idea of New Year's resolutions, especially come, you know, january 2. It's typically not January 1, even because people are still, you know, coming out of their like food comas from New Year's, and so we delay it even another day, and then we're going to just expect ourselves to get on track. And it's so short-lived because there's no real intention behind it and most of us don't understand what it actually takes to change our life for the better. Most of us don't understand that there are reasons beyond your awareness that are keeping you in the same patterns, that are keeping you, you know, living the same life year after year. And it's only when you start to do that deeper inner work that you can break free of those patterns and then really start to become the best version of yourself. And I also just find that there's so much hype around New Year's resolutions and then, when you don't stick to your goal or you don't stay committed to yourself. Then you just feel really bad about yourself and you beat yourself up even more, and that doesn't serve you either and it just like perpetuates the cycle. So today I want to talk about how to be your best self now, how to, you know, really just start being the person that you want to be today, because you don't have to wait until New Year's.
Speaker 1:So often we're putting off doing something I always think of like a weight loss goal. I feel like I always hear and see people like I'm going to get in shape this year, I'm going to lose the weight, I'm going to eat healthier, and it's like why, over the next two months, are you putting that off? Like can't you make one better choice today? Right, as I say this, it's so simple in theory and people know that, but the problem is we are putting off feeling something that we don't want to feel. There's a reason that we go to food for comfort, so we're putting off feeling the discomfort that comes from maybe not allowing ourselves to indulge in, you know, a certain type of food or food or alcohol, or whatever it may be for you. And again, that's just where the cycle gets harder, because it's something so much deeper, so we're going to dive into that a little bit today, because you don't have to wait until New Year's to be your best self and it doesn't have to be so daunting and as hard as you think it should be. And wouldn't it just feel so good if you just started living that way today and then, come January 1st, you're like I'm already feeling good. I didn't have to wait, you know, these next two months to start to feel better or start to make positive changes in my life. Like I can just do that right now and really just committing to yourself in that way, committing to feeling your best, committing to showing up for yourself right now, in this moment, in the next moment, as much as you can. Like that's where the satisfaction lies. Like that's where there's so much joy and peace about just who you are and then there's so much magic that comes from that.
Speaker 1:Isn't it interesting that we focus on doing when we are trying to be our best selves? I love that we are so ingrained in thinking that we constantly have to be doing right, like we're trying to be the best version of ourselves. So we're like what can I do to be right? But we have it all wrong. Right, we have to slow down, we have to focus on the being. Part right, and it's so much less of the doing and the doing doesn't feel as hard and the doing doesn't feel as uncomfortable and the doing doesn't feel as daunting when you first focus and prioritize on the being.
Speaker 1:I remember before I had kids, it was New Year's when I did, like you know, having a New Year's resolution, and I remember this one particular New Year's. My resolution was really quite simply, to be the best version of myself. It was so ironic now that I'm sharing this kind of as an episode here and I remember where I was working at the time. Our CEO was asking everyone what their New Year's resolutions were and it was a really small and intimate company. And when he got to me I said, well, I just really want to be the best version of myself. And he said, well, what does that mean? And it stopped me in my tracks and even though it was my resolution, I don't think I had ever actually defined, at least out loud, what that meant for me, what that looked like for me, what that felt like for me, and it really started to shift my perspective, like in that very instant, because what does that mean? And I think so many of us have this idea of like. We just wanna be living as our best selves, we wanna show up as our best selves and I think, deep down, we know what that means for us. We know how that feels. But have you taken the time to really define that so you can see, okay, these are the things that are not working for me right now. To be living as the best version of myself, to be creating the best version of my life, right, and maybe what is working or what do you wanna do more of? That initially really got me thinking again.
Speaker 1:This is many years ago, prior to my own major personal development, deep dive and kind of starting this journey, and then right before my daughter was born. So this is, I guess, about five years ago. Now I'm trying to think of what year it would have been, but my husband had gotten each of us I think it was called like a best self journal. I believe it's still a company. He had gotten each of us one of these for Christmas and we were going to do it and really go all in again on being our best selves. There's so much out there around being your best self and I think so much of it just falls short. So I hope that this all really helps.
Speaker 1:So we had just gotten back from a really amazing trip in Spain with our son, who was two and a half at the time, and I'm quite pregnant with my daughter and I'm so excited to get started on this like best self journal and I think there was daily gratitude practice. I can't remember all of the things that were in there. I'm sure it was focused on a lot of what do I want to do today to feel accomplished right Again, focusing so much on doing, focusing so much on accomplishment. And I remember like that my son had been sleeping really well and just being, I'm sure, jet lagged and traveling, and when we got back he just got on this major like sleep regression and, like I said, I'm quite pregnant and it just threw me off. I couldn't get enough sleep. So I wasn't able to wake up early in the morning to kind of do this self help journal and do the different tasks that I needed to do, and I just stopped doing it probably after a week of kind of being on a roll with it again as a New Year's resolution and again at that time I didn't realize. It's like now, with the power of hindsight, now, with doing all of my own inner work and teaching other women to do this as well. It's like I realized it wasn't working because it wasn't getting to the root of what was actually going on right, it was again so outwardly focused on goals and doing and achieving and accomplishments.
Speaker 1:But for me at the time I worked outside of the home, I had a young child, I was pregnant, right, there were all these other things going on and I didn't know how to prioritize myself, I didn't know how to let myself have space to be and to slow down because, again, at the time, I didn't think that, you know, that was available to me, that that was possible for me. And I think so many women are stuck in this loop and in this trap, just thinking like there's not enough time, right, there's not enough time in the day, there's not any time for me. How would I ever find time to do something nourishing for myself, right? Again, when you keep having those beliefs, that is what's gonna show up for you. So, again, I didn't follow through with this journal. You know, I'm just kind of going about my day, just not living as my best self.
Speaker 1:So what finally changed for me was really all you know, by accident or you know, all kind of divinely timed, and I've shared about this before on the podcast. But it was truly being forced to prioritize myself because not to get into it too much, because I think I've said it in many episodes, but really struggling during the pandemic, as you know, kind of becoming a stay at home mom overnight because of the pandemic, really struggling with my own mental health and just how I was showing up at that time, of course, all the uncertainty in the world. It was really challenging for me and it was such a struggle and I knew that if I could show up as the best parent and the best wife and, you know, help us all get through this time, in a way that felt somewhat, I don't know, good, happy, healthy, you know, with some level of sanity, like I had to prioritize myself. So I started waking up at 4 am and I started a meditation practice and that was my time. I knew I could rely on 4 am because I knew my kids most likely wouldn't wake up at that time and I know that sounds like a completely crazy time. Even now I would love to go back to 4 am and even now it's hard for me, but it was so. I was so determined at that point to do this. So it was through meditation again I say it all the time that it really allowed me to just start to see things in a completely new way, because when you were in meditation, you were not focused on the doing, you were not focused on achieving, you were not focused on accomplishment, you were not focused on, you know, the success, the things that you need to get done that day. You are focused on being. You are focused on connecting with who you actually are at a soul level, right, your essence, and that is the most powerful way to start your day. It is the most powerful way to transform your life.
Speaker 1:Again, focusing on the being right, we're trying to do so much to change the way that we are and, again, in trying to change the way we are, we're focused on the doing. What can I do to change the way I am? But I wanna tell you, and just really focus in on this point you need to focus on the being. I would like to say that we've forgotten to focus on the being, but I don't think that we were ever really taught to focus on the being. And that's such a shame, you know, and it's you know again, it's just part of just how society has, you know, taught all of us that we need to constantly be in the doing mode. But really, especially now, especially more than ever, with everything going on in the doing mode, everything going on in the world, we're all being called to focus more on being right. It's so important, now more than ever, right, we all need to do our part and we all need to reconnect to who we really are, so that we can just raise the collective consciousness of the entire planet. It's so, so important. All right. So, as you start to again focus on the being Again, we're not talking about okay, what workouts do I need to do to be the way that I want to look.
Speaker 1:We're not talking about all the different ways you can change your habits so that you show up more in your life. I don't want you to show up more in a doing way. I just want you to focus on your energy from within and then see what radiates from without as you get into this. And if you're listening to this right now and you're like, okay, yes, I want to just be the best version of myself. I want to be the best mom. I want to be the best partner. I want to be the best wife. I want to be the best CEO of my own business. I want to run my household more efficiently. I want to be better at my job. Whatever it is. Define what that actually looks like for you. What do you mean by being the best version of yourself?
Speaker 1:When I go back to even before I had kids and then, especially once I had kids, when I finally slowed down and got really crystal clear on what that looked like for me, it was really all about being more intentional. I wanted to feel like I wasn't just reacting to everything. I wanted to feel like I had spaciousness in my day. I wanted to feel like I had time and that that time was purposeful. I wanted to feel like I was making the best use of my time, again being really intentional, really living on purpose. At the time, when I look back, it's like I was really a naturally optimistic person and I liked my work at the time. A lot of things were going well, but I realized I was still not living intentionally. I was still rushing through my day a lot. I was still constantly. I lived in New York at the time. I was still constantly running late and running to the subway. I wanted just more ease in my day. I wanted intention, I wanted ease, I wanted to feel like I was actually in control.
Speaker 1:It's so ironic because so often we're all holding so tightly to this idea of control, to the idea of us needing to be in control. It's actually when you let go of control and again you just focus on being and connecting with your soul, with your own inner guidance system, with your highest self, when you do that and you let yourself just surrender to this idea of control, that things actually get easier and things actually feel better and smoother and you're going through the day with more intention and with more purpose. But again, instead, we're so wound to this idea that we need to be in control of how everything works out for us, how everything shows up for us, how we move through the day. But again, focus less on the doing and the how and just focus on the being, focus on connecting, focus on going inside. Right, it's an inside job and it just makes everything so much easier, even as I talk about this, depending on where you are in your own journey, you might be like this is ridiculous. There's no way that works. It can't be that easy.
Speaker 1:So many of you are going to dismiss this and you're not going to start a meditation practice and you're not going to prioritize yourself and you're not going to do the work and you're going to show up next New Year still feeling the same way. And I promise you, it's such a simple invitation, right? Can you give yourself five minutes, 10 minutes in the morning, just to connect, just to be right? So okay, so we're going back. I don't want you to yet define what this actually looks like for you, right? What do you mean by the best version of yourself? How do you want to go through your day? Maybe the best version of yourself is a happier, more patient mom. Maybe the best version of yourself is someone that just feels a vibrant and confident and excited in her own skin and body again. Maybe the best version of yourself is someone who actually commits to the things that you say you're going to do for yourself.
Speaker 1:I know that as women, as moms, we are so good at committing to things our kids need from us, things our kids schools need from us, things our family needs from us, what our jobs need from us, we put everyone else above ourselves and then there's no room left for us. Right, there's no space left for us. So we let go of the commitments that we have made to ourselves. Right, Maybe you make that commitment that you're going to wake up at five in the morning and you're going to go for a run, or you're going to do a workout or you're going to do some yoga, but you're so exhausted from giving so much of yourself to everybody else that you break the commitment to yourself. That is the biggest crime, because you can only give an abundance of yourself, an abundance of your own energy, when you put yourself first, when you honor the commitments to yourself, when you prove to yourself that you can trust yourself. Right, and it's such an interesting concept. Right, we think about losing trust or gaining trust in others, but we do it to ourselves as well.
Speaker 1:Right, if you say that you're going to do something in the morning and you don't do it, your brain instantly interprets that and is like okay, I can't trust myself, that I'm going to follow through on myself. Right, and this is such a big part of really developing and nurturing more self-love within ourselves, right, being more compassionate with ourselves. Right, say yes to yourself and follow through. And if this is hard for you, or if you have done this, or if you have tried to do this in the past and have had a hard time following through, reassess what you're doing, right, maybe a 5 am workout hasn't worked for you. Okay, find something small that does work for you. Find something small that you can stick to and build up that trust muscle within you. And the more you do that, the more you show yourself that, yes, I am worth showing up for myself. Yes, I can trust myself. Yes, I can choose myself. I'm worth it. Right, and the more you do this, the easier it gets. And again, the more you can celebrate yourself, the more you can honor yourself.
Speaker 1:From doing this work, everything starts to shift inside of you and you then start to push yourself past the limits that you've been holding on to unconsciously for so long. So, start small. What is, even if you think about New Year's like what is something that you would have a New Year's resolution for? Can you start with that right now, today? Okay, and again, I don't want you to focus on all of the things that you need to do to achieve this. I want you to see that it gets to be so much more simple than that, right? I don't want you to start making to-do lists and all the things you need to do to become the best version of yourself.
Speaker 1:I actually ditched my to-do lists forever ago. What I have found is that my memory is so much better now that I have a meditation practice and I pretty much focus on one or two things that I want to get done. That will powerfully shift my life today. And other than that, I know like I have a calendar, so I have my kids' activities on that. Of course, I have a couple of things that are just floating in my head, but I find to-do lists to be just so much extra noise that's not necessary For me. I don't know if you do this, but I would write things on my to-do list just to scratch them out.
Speaker 1:To-do lists are so much extra like mental energy that we're expending, and then again we're looking at the to-do list. We typically, you know, for a to-do list for a day. There are far too many things on it that don't even need to get done today, but it just then feels overwhelming. So if this resonates with you like, just don't look at that to-do list or have something where you're like, okay, I know I need to get these handful of things done and I'm going to get to them, but what's the most important thing I can do today that's really going to make me feel satisfaction in how I showed up for myself today, because, really, like, that's what it's all about just feeling satisfied at the end of the day, that you went through this day and you gave it your all and again, I don't mean that you did everything, I don't care what anyone did.
Speaker 1:Did you show up for yourself today? Did you find joy today? Did you spread love in some way today? And by love I mean did you live in your truth? Did you live in your purpose? Did you live connected to who you actually are, to your soul, to your essence? Right Like? Did you do that? How did you feel today? Did you feel like crap? Totally fine as well. Did you honor yourself for feeling like crap? Did you allow yourself to embrace just feeling like crap and just being with it so you can release it, so you can let it go, so you can surrender it and move on Right, stop living in like all the unnecessary mental and emotional energy, just let it go.
Speaker 1:So, okay, let's go back to okay, talking about really simplifying this practice and again, because I'm not wanting you to have a to-do list, I'm not wanting you to do all the things you know, I think that sometimes we get caught up in okay, the best version of myself, you know, does these 20 things every day, maybe it's. You know. I get up and I do a meditation and I do yoga, or I work out, and then I eat a certain way, and then I blah, blah, blah. All the things we're going to do, do, do, okay, and it just it gets exhausting and we lose sight of what's actually really important. And what's the most important is just coming back to who you are just waking up, to who you actually are, not the mass you wear, not the roles, right, this body is just this, you know, human avatar that our soul resides in, reconnect to that, reconnect to who you are. So, to really simplify this, I want you just to start your day. I shouldn't say I want you. I want you to try this on if it feels good to you, because really this is your journey and this is what has been so helpful for me. So again, just an invitation to try this on, if it feels good.
Speaker 1:Start with an intention around what the best version of yourself looks like, feels like, how it moves through the day. Whatever that is, start with one simple intention, because what we focus on, what we bring our attention to, is where we will allow energy to flow to through the day. Right, the things that we want. Focus on bringing your energy there and let that guide you. So, to really ground this, it can be something as simple as how do you want to feel today? Right? Maybe you want to feel like you're moving through the day with more ease, right? Just not being on autopilot constantly, not rushing through the day, not rushing from one thing to the next, feeling like you just have more balance and ease and peace and there's just more natural flow in your day, more joy, more presence. Maybe that's your intention. So what does that look like for you?
Speaker 1:So, in the morning, as you start your day, you can start with, again, a simple meditation, but in that meditation, visualize what it feels like to go through your day in this way. Maybe you can really even ground it in. I'm at the countertop and I'm making my kids lunches and I just feel at ease doing it. I have a smile on my face, it doesn't feel so daunting and stressful, right, I am just so grateful that I have these adorable children, that I get to make healthy lunches for. Whatever that looks like for you, I'm just sharing that as an example.
Speaker 1:But do the visualization work to just start to experience now what that feels like for you. Because, again, your brain doesn't know the difference. Your brain doesn't know the difference in you sitting here and doing this visualization or it actually happening in real time. But once you do the visualization, once you set your focus on how you want to feel, how you want to move through the day, what your intention is, the brain gets to work to show you the evidence of that. It wants to show you more of that, and that's where it gets to start to be so easy. And again, just as you go through the day, start to notice the moments where you now feel ease. You now feel like, oh, there's some more gratitude here, I'm more present, I'm more patient, I'm feeling a little bit more at peace.
Speaker 1:Again, whatever your intention is, really notice where you're seeing that show up in your day. Because now, the more you notice it, the more you see the evidence of that, you're starting to then rewire the brain to say this is the new truth. The old truth was I was scattered, I was constantly reacting to everything in the day, I was constantly being triggered. I was constantly frustrated. I really lacked being present with my kids. That was the old truth.
Speaker 1:So now you're focusing on the new truth of what you want to experience, of who you want to be, of how you want to go through the day, of how you want it to feel. And the more you see evidence of that again, the more it becomes your new truth. Because you're like, oh, I'm seeing this manifest in my physical reality and it gets to be so easy, right? You're like, oh, now I can see how I can simply just shift, set that intention as I start the day and then just allow whatever is going to show up to show up. And does this mean that you're never going to be triggered again? You're never going to be frustrated? Of course, absolutely not. I got very frustrated with my kids who, I feel like, have been yelling at each other constantly for the past four days, and this morning it just really got to me and that's going to happen. But in the past that would have just constantly gotten to me and I would have constantly been yelling at everyone and everyone would have been feeling really bad, right? So of course you're still human, but it gets to feel lighter.
Speaker 1:So bring your focus to what you want. Again, the brain isn't worried about how you feel or some positive charge or a negative charge. It's just focused on what you are focusing on. So if you are focused on how much you really dislike your job and how much you're really stressed and you're working too much and that feels miserable, even though you're saying I don't want this, you're still focused on that thing. Does that make sense? Like you're still putting so much mental energy and emotional energy around the thing you don't want and that's why that is going to continue to show up for you. And it's simply because it's what you're training your brain to see. Right, when I'm saying, look for the evidence, you're so focused on that that more evidence of that is showing up for you. So I just want you to simply focus on what you actually want. So what if, instead, you're just focused on I'm ready to find a job that excites me. I'm ready to have more balance in my day. I can experience ease now in these 10 minutes sitting here and doing this meditation and just giving myself space and time to be. I promise you, I guarantee, if you do this for just a few days, you will start to notice such a big difference in how you feel and how things show up for you and the clarity that you then feel Again.
Speaker 1:We're all stuck in this kind of mental fog of just life because we're so focused on all the things that we don't want. Focus on what you want Not being so much in action, but just being your most authentic self, right, just connecting to your own truth. And again, as you do that, the more you do, that you'll get more clarity around. Oh, now I actually want to work out, right, kind of? Going back to this weight loss example again, so many people have that as a New Year's resolution. When you're focused on being, you're like, oh, I'm starting to feel better and now I want to nourish my body in that way. So now I actually want to work out. I want to go for a walk in the morning. I want to choose to eat less sugar. I want to choose to drink less alcohol. I feel so good and I want to continue to nourish my body in this way.
Speaker 1:Right, it gets so much easier when you focus on the being rather than the doing, because when you're focused on the being, you're getting to the root of what's actually going on, and setting an intention is a super easy way. You can go a little you know, more deep if you want. I mean again, this journey is yours and not everything works exactly the same way for every single person. Maybe for you, it's setting the intention around, just bringing awareness to what am I trying to avoid feeling, right, why have I not started writing that book that I want to write? What am I trying to avoid, right, just being with that, seeing what comes up for you.
Speaker 1:Again, we're like I'm gonna, I'll just use this book writing example. I'm gonna start writing that book, you know, in January. It's just, it's a really busy time of year right now, with the holidays and everything going on, and I'm just, I'm busy and yada, yada, yada, all the excuses. It's still gonna be busy in January, like, I'm sorry to say, but it is Like there's, there's still going to be something, and if it's not busy, there's gonna be another excuse. So what are you avoiding feeling? Right, and this is so beautiful and so simple, because once you realize what you're avoid avoiding, feeling okay, and you can do this again just by getting still, getting quiet.
Speaker 1:Ask yourself why am I not writing the book? Why am I not doing the thing I want to do? Why am I not starting that blog? Why am I not starting the podcast? Why am I not doing this? Right, get still and see what comes up. The answers will be revealed to you. Does it help to have someone guide you through this? Yes, absolutely. Sometimes you can get clarity a lot faster, but you can do this way. But you can do this work on your own.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing so often we are avoiding doing something because we don't want to feel the negative emotion that that thing brings. So say, what is revealed to you is that you're avoiding writing your book. Because what if you write the book and no one likes it? Right, and now it's just like fear of rejection. Can you now, in this moment, just feel the rejection. Allow yourself to feel the rejection, the disappointment, whatever it is for you that's coming up. Feel it now, feel it fully, embrace it Right, just let it be. Where do you feel that in your body? Breathing into it, letting it be here, okay, when you allow yourself to feel it now fully, you realize, oh, that rejection, it wasn't that bad Right, you're able to allow it to release and in the releasing of that emotion you can move on Right.
Speaker 1:But instead we're all just avoiding. That's also why we're going through life on autopilot. We're so afraid of feeling anything that we don't want to feel, but ironically, we all just feel really terrible because we're avoiding feeling the very things right that we need to feel to feel better, to become our best selves, to feel like our best selves, to feel vibrant and excited and enthusiastic and joyful, right. The only way to get past these negative emotions and these negative thoughts and these negative feelings is to go right through them, right, to embrace them. That is the best way and it's really the only way to do this. You must release them, you must surrender them, and then you're like it wasn't that bad. So if you have a fear of failing about something, right, just embrace failing right now, in this moment, like, oh, it's not that bad, I can still move forward Right, or whatever that looks like for you, and just continue to honor yourself exactly where you are, and I promise you it gets to be so much easier. And here is the thing when you stop putting everything off, when you just embrace where you are, when you take that next simplest step for yourself. Now, really show up for yourself in a way that feels really good, really nourishing, really true to who you are in this very moment and exactly what you need, everything opens up for you.
Speaker 1:What is hard is, again, the noise in our head and the mental energy, the emotional energy that we spend by just staying stuck exactly where we are. We're stuck in the same thought process. We're stuck in the same beliefs. We're stuck in the same patterns. We're stuck putting things off. Right, just start feeling whatever you wanna feel now.
Speaker 1:If that means you need to release a ton of stuck, stagnant, old, negative energy, release it in whatever way feels good for you, right? If something doesn't feel right for you, it's simply a force, a guide trying to get you to make a U-turn so you can come back to what feels good and true for you, right? It's just like the worst we feel. It's like, oh, the worst. We feel we're more disconnected from who we actually are, from our own truth. And the only way to come back to the truth is to just embrace where you are right now. And the more you do that, you step back into your own power, you loosen the grip that the power of your brain has over everything, right? And you come back into the power of again your own inner being, your own essence. And when you start living from this place, when you start just living in presence, when you just start honoring what you need right now and who you are, your life will dramatically shift. And it doesn't have to start on January 2nd, right? If you start doing this work today, your life will already be different by January 2nd. And then it's like holy cow. Now, what does 2024 have in store for me? Right? Like, how beautiful can this year be? How much can I grow, how much can I expand? Now, what can I do? Because I'm so connected to who I'm being that literally everything is available to you, right? Your potential is limitless. The level of abundance that you're able to attract is limitless, and it starts with you focused on who you're being now.
Speaker 1:I hope you like this episode today. I, as always, love to hear from you. I love to hear how you're implementing some of this work for yourself, and I love to hear how you're still stuck. Maybe certain things aren't working for you. Maybe you're like I have tried meditating and I'm just I can't do it. I can't quiet my mind enough, right? Share with me what's going on.
Speaker 1:I am happy to do more of a deep dive. Or I invite you into my Facebook group. It's a private Facebook group, wildly abundant women. The link is in the show notes and in there I do lives. I go more in depth about certain topics and if you have something that you want me to speak on, I am happy to share that and do that because really, again, this is all about your journey and finding what works for you, what resonates for you. It's not me Like I can guide you in certain ways, I can share these tips, but it's really about you taking the action and you finding again what feels best for you. That is how you will profoundly change your life and manifest everything that you want, and you are so deserving of that and you are so capable of that. I hope you have a beautiful day and I'll see you next week.