Motivation is often the result of action, not the cause of it.

 

 

 

about how I started the new year…And you're NOT going to believe it…because I barely do. 

 

If it's below 70 degrees she is probably wearing long sleeves. In the winter she has a heating blanket that she turns on every night at 5:00pm to make sure the bed is warm for bedtime. She keeps the house at 72 degrees in the winter and she has banned air condition in the summer. Growing up she would wear a winter coat to the dinner table because the house temp was only 68 degrees! She owns a heated vest, a heated mug and lots of blankets and sweaters. She uses the heated seats in the car until May and starts using them before the first of fall in September. Her favorite yoga is hot yoga (of course) where the room is heated to a cozy 105 degrees!  This girl is never too hot and always too cold. 

 

*(The girl is me.) 

If you know me at all, you aren't laughing.  You're rolling your eyes and validating the truth in every above statement. I am ALWAYS cold and I HATE being cold.

 

I needed to provide that background for what I'm about to tell you next…

January 1st at 9:00am, we hiked into the 34 degree woods, striped down to our bathing suits and plunged into very cold water. 

This week's video is...

 

 

“I am” are the two most powerful words because what you put after them shapes your reality.

 

“I am, who I am…and I'm never changing who I am.”

 

There's a lot of power in those words.  It feels empowering to dig my heels into the ground and declare that nothing can change me, but the truth is the more I stay who I am now, the less chance I can become who I desire to grow into.  

 

For me, 2024 is about overcoming limits, especially the ones I've allowed to define me. 

 

I had a lot…I mean A WHOLE LOT of emotions going into this.  I was scared, filled with dread, I had bits of optimism that it wouldn't be too bad, fear that it really would be, and a whole bunch of pent up anger.  I did NOT want to do it. 

 

No one made me.  They knew they couldn't. 

 

 

I knew that if I didn't jump into that freezing cold water that my “I am” would continue to be walls that kept me boxed in.  I knew that the “I am” that I wanted to become is bigger than the “I am” I once was, and that is the beauty of it all.

 

If 2024 is your year to overcome limits and redefine your “I am” than join the Monday Club and let's jump in together!

I know that if I can face my fear of the cold, I can face the little fears and doubts that pop up everyday.  And you want to know something else…In the water…in the face of the fear itself, there was nothing to fear…all the fear came ahead of time.

 

Keep that in mind. That thing you are afraid of is always more scary before you face it.