This Is Your Sign To Go ALL IN

You’re not the kind of person who is satisfied with a chilled existence.

There are people who are content with the way things are. (Good for them!)

But as a highly driven person, you know you've only scratched the surface of what you can achieve.

Nothing scares you like the thought of wasting your potential.

But that’s what it feels like, right? Like you’re running out of time to make an impact.

It’s not too late.

You know that thing you’ve been thinking about doing?

The one you keep starting and stopping?

The one that will change everything when you actually do it?

It’s time to commit.

This is your sign to go all in.

How To Want It Bad

If you only kinda want it, you’re only kinda gonna get it.⁠

You have to want it bad.⁠

More than you did yesterday.⁠ ⁠

More than anyone.⁠

More than anything else in your whole life.⁠ ⁠

When you want it that bad, you’ll be willing to do whatever it takes.⁠ ⁠

Anything.⁠ ⁠

Rules no longer apply.⁠ ⁠

You won’t be afraid to knock on every door in your neighbourhood to ask for donations.⁠

Or ring up people you haven’t spoken to in 10 years to ask for help.⁠ ⁠

Or look like you’re trying really, really hard.⁠

When you want it that bad, all excuses fall away.⁠ ⁠

So how do you get yourself to want it that bad?

You devote energy – like you might to styling your hair or cooking dinner – to kindling determination.

Not occasionally, but every single day.

Start making a conscious daily attempt to turn desire into decision, and decision into [relentless] action.

Visualise.
Meditate.
Blast Kendrick Lamar.
Run.
Read a quote.
Listen to a podcast.
Anything that compels you into action.

It doesn’t need to be at the same time each day (your pursuit of the perfect morning routine is just another way to procrastinate what really matters), but it does need to be every day.

My practice? I write.

My notes app is filled with intentional thoughts (5128 notes in my icloud, to be exact).

Most I will never return to.

Because the moment they flow from my fingers onto the page, they have already served their purpose:

To generate drive.

How To Get Lit Up

Your personality has a volume setting.

It’s constantly being adjusted by the people you interact with.

There are three types of people playing with your volume settings:

1. Reducers turn your volume down.

They say things like:

“That idea will never work.”
“You’re too much.”
“Chill out.”

They make you less of yourself.

2. Supporters maintain your volume.

They say things like:

“Great idea!”
“You’re awesome.”
“Keep going.”

They make you stay the same.

3. Amplifiers turn your volume up.

They say things like:

“Omg, let’s make a plan for you right now!”
“Yes, AND you could also…”
“Let me connect you to someone who can help.”

They make you more of yourself.

How lit up you feel is directly affected by the amount of time you spend with each kind of person.

I used to think it was enough to avoid Reducers, and simply surround myself with Supporters to cheer me on.

But recently I’ve discovered that to live my fullest, highest potential life, I need the presence of Amplifiers who actively push me to the next level – without me even having to ask.

“The best way to light yourself up is to be close to someone who is on fire.” – Felicity Huffman

I’m suggesting you also get close to someone with a can of gasoline.

And if you’re lucky, you’re both on fire, and you both have gasoline.

Now it’s a limitless explosion.

Some notes for the Amplifiers of this world:

1. Even though you’re naturally motivated, you can’t perpetually self-ignite. Eventually, you’ll run out of fuel and burn out. Don’t wait for that to happen. Seek other Amplifiers now.

2. Occasionally, you'll encounter someone who doesn’t ignite, no matter how much gasoline you pour over them. If they don’t have at least a little spark, gasoline does nothing but create a wet mess. (Or to use my earlier analogy, you can’t turn up the volume when there’s nothing playing). As hard as it is to watch a sparkless friend struggle, you can’t create that spark for them. You have to let them find it on their own. So be their Supporter for now. Cheer them on. Be there. But stop trying to help them make things happen. You can’t Amplify until they find that spark of motivation within themselves first.

Who are the Amplifiers in your life?

Make a list. Reach out. Do it today.

Reflecting on My Favourite Posts

On the second-to-last day of blogging in a row, I thought it would be fun to have a look back on my favourite blog posts of the last two years (because let’s face it, when you post every day, not every post is going to be a banger, but that also means there are occassionally some gems).

Here are 13 of my favourites:

You Actually Sell Croissants
About how to market your business

How to Overcome Self-Doubt
About building trust with yourself

The Last Minute
About keeping going until the very end

How to Hustle
About taking action from abundance vs lack

Outwork Chance
About guaranteeing success

The Points System
About how to sell something

Consistency is only ONE of the keys
About consistency on social media

Good Girls Don’t Make Money
About the unexplained importance of money

Ambitious Women Change The World
About why I’m so ambitious

What If We Showed Up Like Every Day Was The Last Day?
About giving it your all

You’ve Got Everything You Need to Hit Your Goal
About starting now

Showing Up No Matter What
About committing to your goals

Action Works Like Money
About compounding interest

How to Take Action

After doing hundreds and hundreds of coaching sessions, I discovered that there are four main areas that stop people from taking action:

1. Not having a clear goal

2. Not having a simple plan

3. Not scheduling their actions

4. Having unhelpful thoughts

So I made a flowchart. Enjoy!

100% of 30%

I felt myself running out of energy this evening.

But then I remembered the most helpful rule about energy: Even if you’ve only got 30% to give, give 100% of that 30%.

So instead of opting out entirely, I'm here, giving 100% of my 30%.

Some helpful thoughts I had this evening:

“Okay, I don’t have the capacity to go crazy with it right now. What could I do to move closer to my July goals anyway?”

And I found small, impactful ways to move forward, by reposting something I had written a while ago.

So the moral of the story is: Give it everything you’ve got, no matter how much you’ve got.

Feel the Blah and Do It Anyway

I saw this photo and immediately could relate.

Sometimes, all you want to do is stay snuggled in a blanket and feel blah.

(Blah is an official emotion, you know the feeling, right?).

But I’ve decide I will still always show up for my commitments.

It doesn’t mean I won’t take a break, or relax a bit first, or do a meditation or let out the BLAH feeling first.

It just means that by the end of the day, no matter how I’m feeling, all of my commitments get done.

Today is one of those days.

Why "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" is Terrible Advice

HOLD UP. We gotta talk about this phrase “Don’t get your hopes up.”

You don’t want me to feel a good emotion in case there’s a bad emotion coming?

That’s like saying, don’t enjoy the ride in case the destination sucks.

Whaaaaaat?!

When you don’t let yourself get your hopes up, you’re literally STEALING joy from yourself.

The anticipation of achieving a goal is almost always THE BEST BIT!

When you achieve it, you’ll probably celebrate for 5 minutes and want to set a new goal anyway. So enjoy the ride. Get your hopes up.

Plus, here’s what I think about you: I think you’re strong enough to handle the disappointment of not achieving your money goal, or of getting rejected by a job, or of not winning a competition.

I think you can handle it.

Get your hopes up, have an amazing time anticipating the wonderful joy ahead of you – and then if you don’t achieve it, at least you’ll have had fun along the way.

Getting your hopes up is a beautiful thing. Gift it to yourself and others!

Decide to Take Action Right Now

It doesn’t have to be a new week, or a new year or a birthday – you can decide to make a giant change, right now.

Everything can change because in this exact moment, you decide it’s going to change.

That’s how I became a runner. 

It was a random Tuesday of no real significance. 

I just had a lightning bolt moment of “I’m sick of thinking about running – I’m deciding RIGHT NOW, I’m doing this.” 

And then I ran nearly single day that entire summer.

One day, when you’re ultra successful and you’re being interviewed about your incredible success, they’ll ask “How did it all begin?”

And you’ll say “I just made a decision one day.” 

That day could be today.

Decide right now to do the thing you’ve been putting off.

Sometimes it really is that simple.

Fate Favours the Bold

What if fate is just waiting for you to make the first move?