BOOM, BAM, BOW!

Those are the sounds that I make whenever celebrating a win - no matter how big. It's always boom to my fears, bam to the doubt, and bow to the victory (in that order)!

I've spent many days doubting myself or my capabilities but that only paralyzed my earning potential. Read that again.

I grew up in a military home and was the oldest child so often times the "invisible" perfection cape was what I chose to wear. No one told me to be perfect but deep down inside I internalized every situation this way. I felt like I needed to be perfect to set the example for my siblings. I felt like I needed to be perfect to prove my worth to my parents. I felt like I needed to be perfect to be loved. LIES, all lies I tell you.

Nobody walking this green earth is perfect! Anybody who tells you they are is lying. It is human to error and it is divine to forgive. I remember learning this phrase and really taking it to heart. That's what changed me and helped shape a better mental environment for me today.

As a young and successful entrepreneur I knew that I had to do things differently if I planned to succeed in this game I wanted to play and I needed to shift drastically in order to win like we all want to do.

I stopped looking at things as loosing and started looking at things as lessons. What did I learn? What could have been done differently? What do I want to or hope to happen in the future? How can I improve and get 1% better at this next time?

You see that shift? That shift created space in my body and in my mind to produce things that I am proud of. I now mentor hundreds of people virtually and in-person just by making that shift.

I am now a resource and go to but this wouldn't be possible if I lived in a place of perfection now would it? I encourage you to get curious instead of critical from now on. I encourage you to fail forward (it's something I heard Denzel Washington say in a college speech one time). Failing forward to me means that even if that outcome turned out to be a failure ( or less than expected) you take that and use it as fuel for your ongoing fiery momentum in life.

I hope that you BOOM, BAM, and BOW your next milestone and most importantly celebrate every win - especially the small ones because small is a part of the all.

Peace!

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