When life gives you a yellow light

Have you ever heard the saying "getting a taste of your own medicine?"

I recently created a post about how important rest is and how it shouldn't be considered a "nice-to-have" but rather the thing that you give yourself as a foundation for you to create, do, and achieve.

And yet, when I recently started a new full-time job, I expected myself to put in the same amount of effort, energy, and time into developing my business as I had before I started the new job...

Something didn't quite add up.

And I was feeling the pressure and fatigue and how that was already seeping into what I was creating. But I didn't decide to create a business so that I could serve people "half-ass" or dread doing the very thing I love, simply because I don't have the energy to do it.

In Matthew Mcconaughey's book Green Lights he introduces the idea of life giving us green, yellow, and red lights. This new situation, to me, was a yellow light.

Why?

Because I set out to create this business and life from a place of desire, not need. From a place of flow, not hustle. And yet I was getting caught up with what I "should" be doing, the numbers, what other people would expect, and wondering "would people still believe I'm equally committed to my business if I don't post as much on social media?"

But none of those questions or worries were actually serving me or empowering me, so I had to take a step back and really look at my priorities, what's truly important, and what my highest self believes.

The thing is, there's really no point in deciding to create a life that you love, if you're just going to break yourself trying to get there the same way you would if you were following someone else's path, directions, or expectations.

So even if it takes you longer, makes you stop and reflect more often to make sure you're staying true to the real you, and makes you different from those around you - it doesn't make it any less right. And it doesn't make you crazy.

I recently heard Jamie Kern Lima speak at an event, where she said "you're not crazy, you're just first." And you might be the first to say no to things that "everyone else" does. Or the first to believe you're capable of more than what's "normal." Or the first to actually feel ridiculously in love with yourself and your life when everyone else says you're dreaming.

But hey, as far as I know, we've only got this one life. And somehow, in a universe that has billions of galaxies and in a world that has billions of people, somehow you've never met someone who is EXACTLY like you.

So maybe instead of worrying so much about why you're not doing everything exactly like everyone else, we can start to embody the beauty of the fact that no one else is quite like you and see what kind of life, love, and impact we can create by leaning into that fully, honestly, and irreversibly.

Are you ready?