What If You're Not Actually Ready For The Life You Dream Of

Welcome back to Chats With Michelle! Today, I’m sharing the reality of needing to evaluate where you actually are. 

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The thing that you, you know, you are hoping and praying and working toward. Do you actually have the capacity? If God gave you exactly what it was that you are wishing and hoping and praying for, do you think that you're actually ready? Hey, what's up, you guys? Welcome or welcome back to Chats with Michelle, where we chat all things keeping your promises to yourself through navigating adulthood and pursuing purpose. And in today's chat, we're gonna talk all things being realistic or rather recognizing whether or not you are actually ready for the thing that you have just been hoping, wishing, praying for. We're all online, right? I would say for the most part. So we see all the people who are thriving, doing well on socials, having like, you know, just seeming like the best successes, whether it's through, you know, writing books or podcasts or business ventures or career advancements, whatever it is, we see it. And if you aren't there in your current life, or rather, if you are not where you would like to be, or where you hope and dreamt to have been in your current life, what can happen is comparison, it can be sadness, it can be disappointment within your own life or where you thought you would be. And this is something that you know, transparently that I feel like I go through on and off, on and off, on and off. I go through, you know, feeling like, you know what, God, I'm so grateful. Thank you for where I am, and just feeling a sense of contentment. And then there are moments when I'm just like, ugh, you know, feeling a little frustrated. But I had an epiphany recently, if you will, and I thought, you know, well, I didn't think to myself, it was more so of a conversation, if I'm being honest, and it was more so like, huh, are you actually ready for the thing that you're saying that you want so that the desire that you have in your heart, the pray, the thing that you're praying for, are you actually prepared? If God was to give you exactly what it is that you're asking for, do you think that you actually have what it takes to carry the weight of what that comes with? And I had to sit and think to myself, at first my answer was like, oh my gosh, absolutely yes, like duh, like the answer is yes, like I'm so ready. I've been, you know, doing my thing. And then I think a day or two, whatever, went by, and I had to just really sit. And I was like, you know what? I don't know that I am because of the the constant at times comparison of like my peers of where or you know, feeling like where I should be farther along by now, etc. etc. And it's not to say that you know, obviously I'm not perfect, we're not perfect, so there are gonna be times where you might look to your left or to your right, but it's like someone who is more ready for the weight that comes with with the calling that the Lord has given you is going to, I believe, anyways, have a lot more contentment in the season, place um that they're they're in. And let me even say this: the more and more I thought about it, I just thought about different people who I adore online, right? Who are actually, you know, killing it online and just just doing well, and how there's just so much scrutiny, um, and people just kind of like taking a magnifying glass to some of their lives, and how you know, life kind of changes as it is. I can speak for myself personally and say that I have no desire to have this big conglomerate of a thing, but more so of just wanting to be impactful, wanting chats with Michelle to be impactful, wanting it to, you know, really just like bless and touch and just be so on time for whoever is listening, right? Listening or watching. However, in the same breath, the thought of having a massive audience who, you know, obviously you have the people who support you, and that's even me. Like, there's some people that I follow that I support them. And they're also, you know, just with everything in life, there's a good and the bad. There's gonna be some people who just don't even, you know, who disagree with you, who don't care for what it is that you have to say, they don't agree with your messages, and you know, instead of just scrolling away, clicking away of their just deciding, you know what, I'm not gonna follow this person, I'm gonna unfollow, mute this person, whatever. Instead, people take it upon themselves to leave their not so great comments, and they will scrutinize you or they judge you so much harsher than they would judge themselves or the people that they know in their own life. It's so, you know, what is it that's saying, like, you know, it's easy. Um, what's in the Bible talking about somebody who has or it's so easy. Well, how does it go? Like, it's easy to see a sty in someone else's eye when you have a log in your own eyes. And like, I just feel like that's how it is a lot online. And I'm just and I had to sit and think to myself, like, Michelle, is that something that you think that you would be able to um not only handle, but I think handle well and with grace of like just people having so many people having so many different opinions, and um, that are all that aren't always gonna be nice opinions or not always gonna be something or opinions that are you know going to necessarily agree with you, and I just wanted to like ask you that same question for because it may not be the same for me what I what I have going on or what I possibly're gonna have going on, but for you, the thing that you you know you are hoping and praying and working towards, are you ready? Do you actually have the capacity to carry the weight of what you're calling is? Do you actually have the capacity? Can you actually carry the weight if God gave you exactly what it was that you are wishing and hoping and praying for? Do you think that you're actually ready? Like, be honest, and then I had to really sit down with I had to sit and think, and I said, you know what? Like the Lord is so kind that He would not give me everything right away and not give me everything that I think I need because or that I think that I I I deserve or I should have, or etc. Because I think that in the quiet place or the covered place, it allows you time to build character to mature to work on some things because think about it, and I always feel so sad for the people, you know, personalities, you know, influencers who you can tell for the most part has a genuine heart, a good heart, but they make a mistake or they make a misstep or whatever it is, and they have to try and figure it all out in the public eye. And people can just be so incredibly unforgiving. And I'm like, my God, Lord, actually, I thank you for being kind enough to help me work out the kinks of my you know character flaws and and different things like that. And like I said, it's not to say that I'm gonna be perfect, but it's like, God, you're so kind and in allowing me to work through this. So, like I said, I I I asked you that question as well. Like, if you really sit and you think about it, you think about the yes, the beautiful blessings that can come with what it is that you feel like your calling is, however, also think about the other side, not to be negative, but think about the other side that could possibly come with it and be for real with yourself. Do you think that you're actually ready to carry that? Now, I don't want to just leave you with all the doom and gloom, right? So, on the flip side, in you sitting with yourself and really doing an evaluation of if you believe that you're actually really prepared for the thing that you're asking for, I want to talk about, you know, just something proactive, right? What's a tidbit that we can take from today's chat? And I would say, more than anything, while you're in the waiting season, while you're in the quiet season, the coverage season, while you are in the season of working it out and just, you know, trusting and moving in faith and all the things while you're in this season, I think more than anything is consistency. I think a lot of times, you know, we can have these different ideas that we want to do this thing and start and stop, start and stop, start and stop, or because you're not getting the results that you think that you should have, or you're looking at your peers, for example, you're seeing their successes or how things are working out for them, I think that it can, you know, we talked about discouragement here earlier up in the chat. And with discouragement, it can it can lead to inconsistency. So I think more than anything, while you are, you know, uh or sitting and being realistic or just measuring or taking a temperature on yourself of like, okay, well, am I actually ready for this? In that, I think it's more than anything, it's so incredibly important to be consistent, right? Because I really and truly believe that God honors obedience, and in that it's being real with yourself as well. Because it's not to say that you you're just consistent to a sense of like you don't make any changes if there are changes that need to be made, right? Maybe there is some, you know, uh wisdom you can take from your peers, not necessarily copying them, but saying, okay, well, maybe I should try this style out, or maybe I should, you know, switch things up a little bit here and a little bit there. And that's something that, you know, transparently myself have been doing here and there as well. Like, okay, well, let me try to switch this up a little bit. Let me try to switch this up a little bit, but still, you know, having the same thing, you know, making wait, what am I trying to say? Uh, and understanding like the purpose and the main thing being the main thing, not losing track and not drifting and not, you know, deciding that all right, this ain't work because I'm gonna do something totally different. Like, no, still being obedient, still being obedient to the calling and the assignment and the purpose, however, also just um being willing to you know mold shift, learn, educate, all the things. So, with that being said, um, I hope that you found this chat incredibly valuable. And if you did find this chat valuable, please consider sharing it with someone who may also find this chat valuable. And while you are at it, please be sure to like, comment, and subscribe because listen, we've got so much to chat about. Bye.