Turning your "WHAT IF 😬" moments into "WHAT IF🤩"
Shifting the WHAT IFs, storytime, and bonus my Birthday Season sale 👀 Open up 👇🏽
WHAT IF…
Oh, the cry of the anxious among us...
If you're anything like me, you go through a million case scenarios.
You consume and learn as much as you possibly can. Maybe you know a lot and love to learn. And that "what if" turns into tons of creativity. But there is also the other side, sometimes where the WHAT IFs start to consume your mind and spiral…
And the reality is, your brain's job is to KEEP YOU SAFE…
That is it. To keep you ALIVE. Unless we actively team up with our brains to teach it how to best care for ourselves, it's just gonna do whatever it needs…
And that means sometimes let's not do the "Scary thing" to keep us safe…
And that scary thing sometimes is small things.
It's applying for a job because you feel you're not qualified, It's not sending out a newsletter because we're afraid people will judge us and make fun of us (me all the time), It's not dating because we're afraid of getting our heart broken, It's staying in our rooms because the outside world can be scary.
And I experience all this too, very often. But I also realize… I have done tons of scary things that shock people, and frankly, I did it terrified. I did it to prove to myself… I could.
I had this moment… how did I convince myself before that I could do it?
How did I travel to over 26 countries by myself? How did I finesse myself into industries with zero experience and still excel? How did I manage to quit my job and take a bet on myself 5 years ago? How did I manage to not give af about failing?
Trust me, I have failed over and over and over again… and I realized.
It's because I wasn't afraid of failing…
I was afraid of WHAT IF… I never try.
WHAT IF… it turns out better than I could ever imagine, and I never even gave myself the chance.
WHAT IF… I am one day on my deathbed and wondering what if I had just tried? What if I had just believed in myself? What if I had just trusted.
I am comfortable with failure now because I realized I tried my best. And it didn't work out.
I have had my heart broken so many times, but I never look back and think what if - because I've been honest. Because I was true to me. And I realized I am like this in so many areas of life, in my career, in my business.
And yeah, it doesn't work out sometimes… That's life.
BUT I know. I am certain… and what if
It's just the plot twist to take me to the next chapter that can be even more amazing than I can even imagine myself….
SO WHAT IF…
And my next what if?
WHAT IF… I decided to launch a crazy wild sale of everything I have built as I end my 31st year.
WHY NOT? So here it is… kicking of My 32nd Birthday Sale as I count down to October 13th.
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Hasta next week,
Joy Valerie Carrera