They will tell you that you’re crazy.
Delusional.
Lost.
A disappointment by society’s standards.
They will tell you that you’re dreaming.
That you should live in reality.
Wake up and smell the truth as they see it.
They will tell you that you’re blind.
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I finally made peace with paying taxes.
This was something that was SO hard for me over the last decade of being a full-time entrepreneur. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it or why I had to give up so much of my hard-earned income.
When I had a day job it was no big deal. The taxes were taken out automatically so there was nothing I could do and I just got used to however much money I ended up with.
But as an entrepreneur, I was the one responsible for setting aside the taxes from all of the money I made.
Except I never did it 😬
As you may be aware, I’m an author. And so I do A LOT of typing on my laptop.
For years I have admired the beautiful nails I see all over Pinterest and IG. I’ve wished that my nails could look like that.
But I refused to get my nails done like the nails I was loving because… “it’s too hard for me to type with nails.”
This is something I’ve told myself for most of my adult life. I even told myself if I was something else besides a writer/author, maybe I would be able to handle having nails. But I need to be able to type and type fast, so nails are out for me.
Or so I thought.
Lately, I’ve been going deeper into every single thing that I tell myself I “can’t do” or “isn’t for me” or whatever. And what I’ve been discovering (not surprisingly), is all of the things I thought weren’t for me, actually are.
I just had to get rid of all of the limiting beliefs in the way.
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I don’t always have a specific mindset practice that I do.
When I started out doing mindset work back in August 2015, I had a set practice. It had three parts to it and I did them religiously every single day without fail for years.
But after many years of doing this, I began to realize that I was getting better at shifting my mindset in the moment.
Negative thoughts or limiting beliefs would pop up, and I would catch myself thinking them, and could immediately shift to a better-feeling thought. I was even able to do this as negative words were coming out of my mouth and could change them mid-sentence.
When this started happening, I eased up on my mindset practice.
I was still working on my mindset every day, but I didn’t have a formal practice around it. I was doing the work in my head, as things popped up for me.
This worked for me for several years, and I coasted along.
But recently, I’ve been feeling the urge to have a more specific mindset practice again. Especially for this year, since I have a quantum leap goal I want to achieve.
My current practice has four parts to it. I don’t always do the parts in order. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I skip around because that’s what I’m feeling in the moment.
I do this entire mindset practice in a document on my computer, so I can keep it all in one place. I used to do it in a handwritten journal, but lately typing it out has been the vibe.
Here’s what my practice currently looks like:
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I started my blog 14 YEARS AGO today!
I started it in 2008 as a way of keeping myself accountable to my goal of writing my first novel. I’d been wanting to write a full-length novel since the late 90s when I wrote my first novella (a short novel).
But no matter how many times I started—and I started many times—I never made it all the way through. Stuff always got in the way, and I was over it.
I was turning 25 that year, and I knew it was time to get my shit together if I was ever going to become the writer and author I dreamed of being.
I set the goal of writing the first full draft of my first novel by my birthday that year (in Sept). But by mid-March, I still hadn’t taken action on it.
Time was ticking away and I knew if I didn’t do something extreme, it was never gonna happen. My procrastination was controlling me way too much at that point in my life.
So on March 22, 2008, I made a decision.
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