Resistance or Regret - Which Scares You More? | LAYC 87

Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast, where it's all about the

journey and the joy of discovering who you are now, deciding who you want

to become, and embracing your genuine identity, influence, and impact.

In each episode, we'll explore how life's experiences have prepared us for what

we choose to do next and how to create our Encore, write our own script, and

star in the next stage of our lives.

I'm your host, your Encore strategist, and transformation catalyst, Isabel Alexander.

Who do you think you're going to get the most resistance from when you

decide to stop being who you are today and start being who you want to become?

Kind of a crazy question, I know, might take a minute to go, what

the hell, Isabel, are you asking?

But think about this, if you're not really happy, with how your life is

today, whether that's because of the business that you're running, or the

relationships that you're in, or that little voice, the little bitch on your

shoulder that's saying, "You Coulda!

You Shoulda!

or it's the concern about Tick Tock!

Time is running out, there comes this moment where you just have to decide,

okay, is the discomfort of where you are now, staying in that box where

you are now, going to be greater than or less than the scariness, the

fear, the unknown of transforming into who you want to become next?

Dr.

Benjamin Hardy says it much more eloquently in his book, the, Be Your

Future Self Now, Be Your Future Self Now.

My own experience with that has been like I'm one of the test subjects here.

I've been going through this process of evolution for some time.

And I'll be very candid, I've been feeling embarrassed, I've been feeling

some shame around the fact that I feel like I never quite get it, that I have

been failing at, failing forward to my future self until, duh, it hit me one day.

It's not a destination!

Seriously, it is a journey, because as I evolve and grow as a woman, as

a business owner, as a citizen on this planet, I'm continuing to change

and I become a new iteration of me.

Whether I'm peeling back the layers of the onion or I'm putting on

another layer of just who I am now, hopefully I never ever get there.

I have now come to that conclusion.

Celebration, blow the horns, call in the band.

I truly hope I never say, that's it, I'm done, this is me, this is the best

it gets, because then the party's over.

What's the fun?

Even as seriously tough and scary, it is at time, and embarrassing,

and taxing, and stretching and growing in all imaginable ways.

Continually being in this pursuit of who is the next best version of me?

Who do I want to become?

Who am I reaching up to?

If not me?

It does take a minute to realize that if you don't make that choice to go

all in and find out and go through that evolution, that metamorphosis process over

and over again, then, as they say, you are living a life of quiet desperation.

I really had a breakthrough on that earlier this calendar year, when

I realized I did not want to live with regrets that I didn't try.

Even as intimidating as it seemed, and impossible as it seemed, starting from

where I was at that moment to get to where I really want to be when I tell

myself the truth, the raw, scary, honest to God truth, who I want to become.

I can't NOT try, because I won't be able to live with myself, and I will live a

life of regrets, and I will start to give up on living my best life if I don't try.

All of this seems whew, I get it, it's big and aspirational, but I'm sharing

this with you because I want you to know it's really worth it and that You can do

it, and you don't have to do it alone.

There are lots of others out there that have, are on this trajectory

of growth and increasing in value and experience in life.

And we're here.

We're forming a community.

We are creating foundations and impact and challenge and business success that

gives us the power to grant wishes, starting with our own, and then to

empower others with our example, and with our capabilities, and our resources.

So please, if you're thinking, No, it seems too frightening,

too intimidating, you know what?

And I do not believe in that expression, "Do it scared".

What I'm saying is...

Do it with a community.

Reach out and find the peers, the advisory groups, the masterminds, the coaches,

the experts, to surround yourself with, first trusting in your own heart and

your own vision and the voice that if you stop for a little while and listen,

you will hear clearly about who you have been on this journey of life evolving

to, and who you are intended to be.

And that everything so far has simply been the foundation for the next chapter,

the next level of your life experience.

And I'm excited.

I'm very excited to be here with you to see what you decide and I would

love to hear about your experiences and your questions about this.

Because I get it.

It is intimidating when you say I've never been that me before.

That's actually the whole point of it.

The journey is pretty cool.

If you think about, it's just evolution, moving a little bit every day in

the right direction to where you ultimately will be - IF YOU BEGIN.

So please begin with me as I begin again and again and

yay, life will be interesting!

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