Dec 31 2018
What life challenges (that you have overcome) have made you unique?
My coach asked, “What life challenges (that you have overcome) have made you unique?”
When I became a single mom, I was terrified of how I’d be able to raise my kids. I was suddenly the only financial support for myself and 3 little boys. I wasn’t afraid to work, I was afraid of getting stuck punching a clock and never finding what would allow me to use the talents and abilities I knew had been given to me for a reason. I had been working part-time as a floral manager, but that became my main source of income. I took on more hours and went back to school. I would get my kids on the bus, drive 20 minutes to campus, go to class until 12:30pm, get to work at 1pm and work until 10pm Monday-Friday. Then I got a full-time job at a dental office as an administrator and started going to night school. I felt like I was just spinning my wheels and never seeing my kids. Then I interviewed at a professional sales company that told me if I got good at sales and training others to sell, I could open my own office and potentially make 6 figures. I threw myself into being the best. I opened my own office a year and a half later. I worked 65 hours a week and never got above a $40,000 salary. I was exhausted, sick and weak. My business failed, and I closed my doors. A month later, my cousin called and said they were looking for someone to fill a position at their studio. Every job was a step in a better direction that gave me incredible experience, but I felt like I was in trapped and couldn’t find my way out. After getting head-hunted for a position as the director of a young non-profit, I thought I had finally created the life I’d been trying to achieve. Five months later the non-profit job LITERALLY became a non-profit job for me. The money promised to come through didn’t and my dream job and paycheck came to an abrupt halt. After all these years of hard work, and some horribly broken hearts, I knew something in me had to change. I remembered as a child and young adult feeling like things always worked out for me. I became aware that my mindset had shifted during those hard years at the end of my marriage from “Everything always works out for me” to “What if it doesn’t work out?”. Therefore, from then on, nothing worked out for me. I was facing everything with thoughts fear and loss and hurt behind it. That’s what I kept getting in my life, regardless of how good and kind and loving I tried to be.
I had been learning to meditate and quiet my mind, but I knew I needed something more. I studied a lot of teachers and gurus who taught the benefits of positive thought and the law of attraction, but it wasn’t until this past year that things unlocked for me. Since then, I have seen amazing positive shifts in my life, including fulfilling work that supports my family and allows me to use my speaking and entertaining talents helping coach others how to shift their mindset and live the life of their dreams.
