We are Hard-Wired for Change
We are all hard-wired for growth & change!
One of the most profoundly OVERLOOKED but LIFE CHANGING phenomena in the world is… to have a VISION for the highest, best version of your life AND then to get to work to make it your REALITY!
Reflecting back to almost 12 years ago when I didn’t have a VISION for my life - I recall feeling foggy, unclear and restless. I was a corporate executive working 60 hours a week - driving 90 min to work and 90 min home. I was working in an industry that was NOT my area of INTEREST or expertise BUT I needed to help pay our mortgage, feed our small children and pay for their very costly competitive dance lessons. Who has, like me, ever taken a job just to collect an income?
Well there I was.
The challenge was that I was growing increasingly anxious about my lack of passion at work. I had no sense of fulfilment in my job. I only had 11 days off out the whole 365-days a year so I had to take a leave of absence just to attend my girls dance competitions. My eldest daughter has a health condition cystic fibrosis and I had to take her to Sick Kids every 3 months it was stressful, long days, and I would field calls and emails from work while trying to navigate the difficult tests and emotions my young daughter was undergoing. I wasn’t challenged in my job and while I worked hard, I only received a 2.5 % pay raise (which wasn’t even the cost of living) after 3 years of growing the business.
C-R-A-Z-Y!
When I learned that I could partner with an established luxury brand, with NO overhead or inventory AND build a business part time alongside all of my responsibilities, including my job, that lit a spark of HOPE inside my soul that I hadn’t felt in a really long time. HOPE that I could actually change my circumstances without giving up my job instantly - since I needed that income while I grew my eCommerce business.
The question asked of me when I first learned about the uncapped POSSIBILITIES of this eComm biz was…. “If you keep doing what you are doing now… where will you be in 5 years from now” got me thinking. I realized I didn’t have a VISION in my life. I didn’t have a plan! Up until that moment my plan was- maybe change companies in a few years. But I would still have someone else telling me how many vacation days I got, when to take lunch or when I was WORTHY of a raise!
The person presenting the business went on to say, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result!” Well I honestly think I was CRAZY to have done that for 20 years and ignored the growing pain of “quiet desperation” that weighed on me everyday from the moment I opened my eyes.
Okay so now let’s talk about VISION again. The definition of vision is… “the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.”
BOOM! Learning about a business that could allow me to CREATE a life by my own design, work it from my phone, help other people, get healthier and earn amazing money if I worked at it and gave it time…. that provided me with major WISDOM… and as author and poet Maya Angelou so beautifully said… “When you KNOW better you do BETTER.”
Learning about this alternative way to have flexibility in my life and career was the “BETTER” I had been longing for!
SO I jumped ALL In with my soul on FIRE!
I plugged in to the success of those around me.
I fell in love with the brilliant eComm industry, the products changed my health, I fell in love with this brand and I started to DREAM AGAIN! I will tell you something….it felt SO GOOD TO dream again! I saw success all around me from different ages 18-80 year olds, different backgrounds; doctors, lawyers, engineers, corporate executives, nurses, teachers, fitness enthusiasts, nutritionists, students and stay at home moms, and I began to cast a BIGGER VISION for myself, my family and the impact I could make by helping other people all over the world live their best lives!
Here is my take away:
Q: You want to have a good life? What should the AIM be?
A: Do something that’s worth doing. Live your life the way you want to live it.
You could become an inspirational example to others. Take the vision and possibility of a beautiful future and turn it in to something good. Your life doesn’t have meaning without an aim (mic drop right there!) As humans we need “meaning” to sustain us through the challenges and adversities that life will inevitably throw our way.
So if you feel an internal PANG for change… if you have that inner feeling of KNOWING that you are meant for MORE than your current circumstances… I encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and create change! TRUST, KNOW & UNDERSTAND the truth that as human beings we are WIRED for growth and change!
You are going to be BETTER than OKAY with change - you are going to freaking SOAR!!!
Grateful to be on this journey with you! I BELIEVE IN YOU!
Thank you for being here.
Never forget one person can make a difference…. that one person is YOU.
With so much love,
Your friend,
Kim xo
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