During a call that I had with one of my MBA professors, he told us that he doesn’t give out marks easily and we had to work hard for them.
“You have to prove to me that you are worthy of the achievement. I want to see the hours that you have put in.”
Now, I really like this professor as a person, but I looked like this as he was speaking because this message is detrimental to our wellbeing and it goes completely against everything that I know now.
I don’t have to prove my worth – my worthiness is guaranteed by virtue of the fact that I’m breathing.
Working long hard hours doesn’t necessarily get you the results that you want. And struggling and stressing about not putting enough work in, is practically guaranteed to diminish the quality of the work that you produce.
This messaging is what creates a mentality that leads to burning out.
And I should know because I burned out of my last business so badly that I had a prognosis of a slow death by starvation after developing a digestive disorder as a result of overworking …
… because the messaging above was drummed into me at an early age.
But there is another way …
There’s a way that the work gets to be fun.
When you get quiet and still so you can hear the intuition that guides you through your easiest route, that struggle, stress, and strain no longer exists…
Because it feels fun to do the work…
… and because thoughts and ideas pop into your mind that fast-track the process.
This is what I taught my client who became fully booked for the first time in her 20 year business, within 3 weeks of working with me.
We do not have to live in the old paradigm of working ’til you drop otherwise the reward isn’t deserved…
I see no sense in living that life anymore.
We’re here for the fun…
We’re here for the fulfillment…
We’re here for the enjoyment of the experience of living.
So take a deep breath,
And as you breathe out,
Release the story of struggle …
Release the energy of proving your worth …
And know that there’s another way.
