Make Your Dreams Come True!

Good morning. Happy Friday. Hope you guys are having a great day. I wanted to give it a few extra minutes this morning. So sorry I'm a few extra minutes behind in getting started. I hope you guys had a chance to catch Chris right before me. I have a couple of things I was maybe going to talk about today. I had two options, so I was going to see if anyone jumped in and gave you guys the option as to what I was going to talk about. But I had a little download, a little personal download for two things.

This is my first download, and then this is the second one, which I will elaborate on. But anyway. Okay, so I think I'm just gonna make the decision for you because nobody's here yet, but hopefully people will jump in. I today wanted to talk about leaning into community in order to make your big dreams come true. So one of the things that, you know, I have experienced lately, and I think it started, I'm gonna blame the pandemic for this one, but I have really sort of, like, come to love being at home and being safe inside of my little personal bubble.

And I think that started when the world kind of shut down and we were forced to be home with ourselves and in our thoughts and protecting ourselves from what was happening in this, like, big, bad world out there. And if you were a work from home person already, you know, maybe this was familiar to you, but I was in the practice of going to clients and running around like a crazy person and hitting the stores and personal shopping and being in and out of people's closets and homes. And it was a really abrupt sort of change for me.

And I did really lean into it and come to love it and come to sort of love this, like, safety of my own self and learning myself and learning what I loved about myself, my work, what I didn't love. And I sort of, like, leaned into this, like, little bubble space. But now, a few years later, we are back in a different world. We are in a time where we might have a little residual PTSD from having to be home and be by ourselves. But now the world has changed, and people are getting back out there, and I think the world is leaning into more of this idea of community.

Hence why you're all here on the Cadre app. Because at the end of the day, something like a global pandemic can happen to force us to be alone and to be secluded. But at the end of the day, community is what helps us thrive and grow. And as a self proclaimed ambivert, so introvert, extrovert, if you guys have been here for a while, tuning into my lives, you've heard me talk about the fact that I am a full blown ambivert. I love and get energized by people, but there's nothing I love more than just going home into my safe space and being alone.

But, you know, I've sort of realized that if I want to grow in the work that I'm doing and if I want to grow as a human being, I need to lean more into this idea of community and the people around me being able to help me. So a few ways that I'm doing that, I just wanted to share with you to maybe encourage you to get out of your bubble and work on this idea of leaning into others and opening your mind and your heart to the guidance and the help that other people might be able to offer for you. So here are three ways that I have been leaning into community and really embracing what's available to me out in that big, I'm gonna say bright world now, as opposed to big, bad world, like I said earlier.

So number one, saying yes to a simple coffee date. I said yes to a simple coffee date that I've been trying to have with a girlfriend who is a female on entrepreneur. And I finally scheduled it on my calendar, said yes, and had the most beautiful experience. Not only did I discover a brand new coffee shop that was so cute and instagrammable, but I had the most life changing iced matcha. And I also was able to bounce some ideas off of this person who is a couple steps ahead of me in business. And we realized that we can offer each other so much help.

She had so many contacts for me, just asking what I'm working on and how she can support me and vice versa. So, saying yes to one coffee that I've been trying to get on my books forever might be like a business lead to three or four different contacts and maybe some solution based problem solving that I didn't even know that I could get from this person. And it was life changing. Just life changing. Number two, saying yes to a job or a proposal or a project that I might have otherwise said no to.

I was a little bit burned out from some of the projects that I was working on in the last couple of years and sort of took a step back from those projects, and I am reframing the game here, and I am starting to say yes to some of those things, but I'm putting boundaries on it, and I'm making it feel good for me. But it's another open door to more people, potential word of mouth, clientele and revenue. And I was, I think, not understanding how to set the boundary around some of these things that I'm really good at and want to do.

And so now I'm reframing it and saying yes to those things, but setting firm, clear boundaries so I can still benefit from this service that I'm providing and just sort of reap the rewards of doing it in a way that feels really good to me. So number two, saying yes to a job or a proposal that I might have otherwise said no to. And number three, I'm saying yes to a plan with somebody who has been wanting a piece of my time for so long. So I'm going to. I've said yes to the coffee date, but, like, this is totally different.

This is maybe, you know, a potential meeting with somebody that I maybe think couldn't benefit me or serve me or vice versa, but somebody who has been persistent about wanting to sit down with me. And I think there's something to be said for a little bit of persistency and a little bit of feeling, like, needed by somebody or feeling like they might have something really beautiful to offer me. And I've just been saying no because maybe this person isn't in my sphere or in my small little bubble of people, but there's a world of opportunity, I think, waiting on the other side of just sitting down with somebody who is really interested in what you're doing.

So those are three ways that I am opening myself up to community, leaning into the people that are around me that might be beneficial to me and vice versa, and getting outside of my bubble, getting outside of my house, and really starting to experience what the world has to offer. So I think that this will lead me one step closer to all of my big dreams coming true. And I hope that it works for you as well. So happy Friday, you guys. I hope this livestream worked for you and I just hope that you have a beautiful weekend.

The weather is so good here in Arizona. It's like I'm. I'm crossing my fingers that it lasts for another week before we hit seriously piping hot triple digits. So I love you guys. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and keep in touch in the community feed. And I will see you next Friday, same time, same place.