BECOMING UNSTOPPABLE in 2024 đ„đȘ©âš
In todayâs post weâll chat thruâŠ
â How our CHOICES impact our journey.
⥠The 4 stages of TRANSFORMATION in becoming UNSTOPPABLE.
âą How you can join the UNSTOPPABLE SELF VISION WORKSHOP.
LETâS DIVE IN. đ€
Happy HAPPY 2024 friends. đȘ©đ„âš Iâm so freaking pumped to be back on the blog kicking off a FRESH YEAR with yaâll. đ„ł In 2023 my biggest goal was to just get this community UP and RUNNING. I wanted a space where women could come and be poured into each week. A space where we were real + raw about the journey of living a life on + for a purpose. And a space where we didnât feel so alone in our journeys + the uncomfy spaces along the way that translate into growth.
And as we head into a fresh year, I am committed to creating more and more of that type of content for YOU. The woman who knows she was made for more. The woman who deeply desires to wear her hats well. The woman who also wants to make sure she cares for herself along the way, too. This past year I coached myself a lot in making what I was calling at the time âbest self choices.â Things like hitting my water goals, sticking to my meal plan, cold therapy, movement, getting outside for dog walks, limiting alcohol, getting quality rest, journaling, meditation, and the list goes on...
And the more and more I showed up to these choices, I began to realize that while, YES, I have the potential to feel like my BEST SELF when I do these particular things (hence the nameâŠBEST SELF CHOICES), I also realized that this dance is delicate. I donât always get it right. Can we NORMALIZE not being perfect every single day, yaâll? Can we NORMALIZE that even though I DO the things that help me FEEL my bestâŠ.Iâm a freaking human and I donât always ACT my best?
I started to realize that my choices donât always leave me as my âbest.â And thatâs the reality of the human experienceâŠnot every day is going to be your best. We have highs and lows and inbetweens. I realized, that these choicesâŠthey actually DO something entirely MORE powerful. When I show up to these âbest self choicesâ (even if Iâm not âat my bestâ) they help me become UNSTOPPABLE. Bc consistency is my game for the things that help me move the needle towards my best self. Does that make sense? I hope soâŠbc
This YEAR I want to help you become UNSTOPPABLE.
The kind of you who is focused. Intentional. Clear. And consistent AF.
Hereâs the deal, though. Being unstoppable doesnât mean you never experience fear or face setbacks. Itâs about not allowing fear or failure to dictate your next best choice. Itâs about peeling back the layers one by one that have covered up your truest, most confident self and stepping boldly into the life you were created to live out and lead.
I know I call this a SELF CARE sisterhood, but to me, self care goes beyond the bubble baths. Real self care is a deep ownership of the life you were given. And thatâs where I wanna go this year, together.
So to startâŠhow do we become unstoppable in 2024 and beyond?! Letâs dive in.
BECOMING UNSTOPPABLE in 2024: The Four Stages of Transformation
If you know me you know Iâm a junkie for all things personal + professional growth / development. I love going to events and I love making sure on my calendar every year I have a couple virtual events sprinkled in the mix. A few years back I attended a virtual event called the âUNSTOPPABLE WOMAN SUMMIT.â It was led by Karissa Kouchis who is a part of the Tony Robbins team. I love this event because itâs curated for women and itâs just electric.
During the event we got this framework for becoming unstoppable and itâs honestly stuck ever since. Nothing Iâm going to share with you is mind blowing today but isnât that how it goes? The most transformative things are usually found in the simplest of daily practices. My goal is to help you walk away from this time together feeling a little more confident and with a little more purpose, so that you can get after all thatâs laid on your heart in the year to come and beyond.
Stage 1: GETTING CLEAR.
The journey to becoming unstoppable begins with getting really freaking CLEAR about your current foundation. When we were building our home in Dallas I couldnât start with adding in all the fun decor and inner projects. It started with getting the ground prepped and ready to HOLD the kind of dreams we had for that space. Your journey is no different. If your foundation is shakey then everything you build on top will also be. You want something you can stand on.
When something is OFF we tend to feel it, right? Especially as women. Itâs those internal, gut feelings. Part of growing into our most unstoppable self is not allowing those inner knowings to go unheard. We have to listen bc the quicker we can get to the root of why something is off, the quicker we can rebuild. Maybe itâs that the work you once loved has become more like a cage holding you back. Or youâve outgrown a relationship. Or maybe you canât really put your finger on it but you just know that lately youâve been feeling a little blah.
I know for me a lot of times in my journey I was the thing that was holding me back. Can anyone relate? Tony Robbins says it perfectlyâŠ
âWe only grow our life and business success to the level where we have placed chokeholds on ourselves.â
Chokeholds, in this case, could be limiting beliefs we have or mental fears we rehearse over and over againâŠbasically anything thatâs stopping us from getting started. And bc of these, we die inside our head even before our real biological time is upâŠnever taking the chance to design the life, relationships, health, business, etc that we dream of. TruthfullyâŠjust settling. Thatâs where that blah feeling comes in. Weâre no longer living in alignment with our potential and that feeling is a sign itâs time to level up.
So whatâs holding you back? What are some of the ideas or dreams youâve allowed to die out in your mind? This is where we bring them back to life. Where we AWAKEN those dreams that have laid dormant. Where you realize that if itâs laid on your heart, itâs for YOU. Get clear on what it is you want to achieveâŠbut ALSO get clear on the type of woman you desire to be. Instead of just thinking âI want to lose 10 lbsâ becoming unstoppable is owning the fact that you are a healthy woman who takes care of her body.
Truth bomb, friends. Itâs a form of self abandonment when you resist making a change you know could improve your life.
Get clear on what you want. Own it. Make it YOURS.
Stage 2: CREATE A VISION.
One of the greatest human desires is to have a life marked my meaningful pursuits. A piece of scripture I love says that the people will perish where there is no vision (Proverbs 29:18) and I canât agree more. The times in my life when Iâve felt MOST LOST are the times when Iâve lacked vision for where I want to go. When Iâm just living the same day on loop. Gosh friendsâŠthere is nothing worse for your performance in life than to wake up and simply go thru the motions of living over and over and over again. I donât want that kind of life and I have a sneaking suspicion that if youâre hereâŠyou donât either.
Most people get stuck in step one bc they KNOW somethings off and probably even KNOW what needs to change. They get clear. They see the gap. And then they get discouraged. But if you want to become UNSTOPPABLE you have to move THRU discouragement into action. If you feel discouraged and you stop that simply means you stopped allowing yourself to be in PROGRESS. But if you can feel discouraged and move THRU it, this means youâre GROWING. Discouragement is simply a mirror of what you donât know or the skills you donât have, YET.
So what do you really WANT with your one precious life? This is about envisioning a future that aligns with what YOU actually want and then setting the stage for profound and lasting change. But hear me outâŠjust because you envision all these amazing things doesnât mean you need to rush thru January and get it all done. Thereâs time. I promise.
At the top of last year I was looking at a blank slate. I had recently laid down my fitness coaching business and was looking at the year ahead just ENVISIONING all I could do. And TBH it was A LOT. So I took time to get it all out of my head (where it felt really freaking overwhelming) and onto something tangible I could see + hold. I grabbed a marker and a white board and wrote out all the really cool things I could do in the year to come. Things that would align with where I wanted my life to go and a foundation that was strong enough to hold me through it. Nothing was off limits. Nothing was too small or too big to write down. If it was an idea I had for the business that I thought I could be good at ONE DAY I wrote it out.
Why am I telling you this? Because after I wrote out that list I did something most people arenât going to talk about in a blog about being UNSTOPPABLE -
I SLOWED DOWN.
I took everything in. Looked at what made the MOST sense to start first that would help ALL THE OTHER goals eventually happen. And then I gave it an entire quarter to implement. I grabbed my calendar and assigned a FOCUS to each quarter based on the goals I had set. By the time I got to the end of the year I was BLOWN AWAY at how much I had created + checked off of that original vision in such a short amount of time. And itâs bc I got clear, I grabbed onto a vision, and I worked through it in BITE SIZE chunks.
I donât know what your vision looks like, but I do know that it probably feels really overwhelmingâŠlike how do I get THERE from HERE?!
I get this. Which is why Iâm telling you youâve GOT to slow down. There is no rush on your calling. There is no hurry to get your purpose. You are living it out everytime you show up and do the dang thing.
Stage 3: MAKE IT REAL.
This transitions into the next stage of becoming unstoppable and thatâs where we MAKE IT REAL by DOING THE DANG THING. Thinking about change is one thing, but living it is another. You actually have to DO things and LIVE the transformation out in order to get to the results you desire. Transformation is when we make our dreams + goals REAL. Itâs a growing season and friendsâŠyou know I say growth looks good on you but IT. IS. HARD. I donât think this gets talked about enough and I want to normalize that there will be struggle on the way to your goals.
As children, many of us learn about the life cycle of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly. The story, as I would tell it to my students + how you probably remember it too, usually began with a very hungry caterpillar hatching from an egg. The caterpillar eats ALL the leaves, growing bigger and longer and then one day, it stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon. From there, the caterpillar transforms its body, emerging as this beautiful butterfly. Like magic, right?
And thatâs a fairly accurate and fun way to tell in a story or remember as a kid. But thatâs not really the whole story. That cute little picture leaves out some pretty significant details. The change inside the chrysalis is slow and gradual while the caterpillarâs body literally digests itself from the inside out. Yaâll. DIGESTS ITSELF. And if thatâs not enoughâŠthe caterpillar is attacked by the same sort of juices that it used in its earlier life to digest food. The same things that once were GOOD for a caterpillar are now destroying it. Thereâs a reason we feel growing PAINS, yaâll bc this is what it feels like when youâre remaining in spaces + around people youâve outgrown. If you were to open up a chrysalis at this stage, what was once a caterpillar would look like what they call âcaterpillar soup.â
This is what it takes to become the butterfly. Thereâs a breakdown involved. Thereâs a transformation that often happens in spaces no one else can see in order to get us to the next level.
MAKING IT REAL IS THIS SPACE.
This is a growing season. A season of change and shedding. Of letting things fall away that can no longer come with us. Of allowing new things to grow in their place. This is the space to surrender and just be.
Most people donât love this step. Thatâs why most people donât become unstoppable. If youâre lucky enough to get clear on what you want with your life and then bold enough to cast the vision, donât stumble in this step. The struggle is part of the process. It is refining you. It is remaking you. Honor the struggle.
The people who quit are the ones who think struggle shouldnât be there. But what if the struggle is placed there to see if you really want it? There are a lot of people who are casual about life. So they give up on the first onset of struggle and this is why they arenât UNSTOPPABLE. But friendsâŠavoidance is a great strategy for short term comfort. It really is. You can avoid the discomfort of change all you want. Youâll be comfortable for awhile. But itâs also a great strategy to guarantee long term suffering. So pick your hard.
Hear me on this: You donât have to have the big fancy things in order to make your vision come trueâŠwhat you need is to be in motion towards the desires on your heart. Itâs the daily forward momentum towards the things that matter to you. Expect the struggle. Honor the struggle. Move thru the struggle.
Thereâs a story of the vine and the branches in the Bible that says âHe cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.â
A few years back I was studying this passage and really marinating on it. I began to think about wine country, naturally, because itâs such a beautiful image of vines and fruit. And I got to thinking about when a branch is being pruned, it happens with a tool that a person is holding in their hands. A gardener canât prune a plant far awayâŠthey are close. So if Iâm being prunedâŠif Iâm in the struggleâŠI also remember that God is near. In your most uncomfortable moments of being pruned, molded, shaped, refined this year, please know that God is so so close in that process. Heâs cutting away all the things that canât come with you to get to the vision you have. Heâs lovingly doing it so you can be healthy and growâŠnot to stop you.
So when you face trials this year, know that itâs the pruning. That itâs a necessary part of the process. And that God is near.
Stage 4: MAKE IT LAST.
The last stage is when it really gets fun. Itâs my favorite part of this process. Itâs where we make MOMENTUM bc weâve built so much CONSISTENCY. Itâs in this space that you truly start creating the life of your dreams bc itâs become an integrated part of WHO YOU ARE. Thatâs when you know youâre becoming UNSTOPPABLEâŠwhen you can embody your goals as simply a piece of WHO YOU ARE.
And a huge part of âmaking it lastâ is continuing to grow + make moves towards your best self even when youâve lost the energy or motivation you once had. Because hear me out:
FUTURE YOU is depending on CURRENT YOU to keep the promises PAST YOU made when you were really excited.
How do we do this? Well I want you to remember that energy is generated. I donât want you to HOPE you have energy or HOPE you have motivation. Hope isnât a strategy unless youâre a victim. I want you to learn how to GENERATE it. I want you to walk into your day creating the kind of energy + motivation you need to keep showing up to your calling.
Think about itâŠa powerplant doesnât have energy, it generates it. What a powerplant does is it takes energy from one source and transforms it into a higher source so it can transmit it. As humans we complain about our energy all the time. And so often weâre trying to find energy in all the wrong places. How are you managing your energy throughout the day? Is it with hits of caffeine or sugar or scrolling social? Because all of those things can give you a dopamine hit pretty quick, but it doesnât last and itâs not real. What about LIFE GIVING REAL DOPAMINE hits? Movement, fresh air + sunlight, cold therapy or a cold shower, meditation, and hydration? Youâre either being intentional and generating the energy you need or youâre simply going thru the motions. And to âmake it lastâ you canât go thru the motions anymore friends. This is where we live with FOCUS + INTENTION.
And Iâve talked about this beforeâŠthe idea of energy management. We all have the same hours in the day and our bodies all have different times when there is MORE energy naturally for each of us and less. For me Iâm at my best earlier in the day and a spike usually late afternoon. But try getting me to do anything creative right after lunch or in the evening Iâm usually toast. Iâve learned this about myself and bc of that I give myself strategic resets throughout my day. Iâve also learned that when I host workshops or trainings, like the coaching calls I do for The Sisterhood Membership or when Iâm in a big launch phaseâŠthose are really high energy moments for me and I know that the following days after I have to take intentional time to be alone and refill my energy tank. Iâm learning how to manage my energy in ways that work for me and in order to make it lastâŠwith whatever it is youâre trying to achieveâŠyouâve got to do the same. Seasons of push + intensity are going to be important, but also seasons of rest and going inward. It all matters.
Like I saidâŠwe all have the same amount of hours in the day. The difference is that some people are managing their energy in productive ways and other people are burning themselves into the ground. So go back to what I said about the long gameâŠabout slowing down. About remembering that you have time to accomplish all of this, but you wonât if youâre burnt out. And you canât be UNSTOPPABLE if youâre completely empty, right?
OKAYâŠLOVE THIS BUT WANT EVEN MORE?!
For the FIRST TIME on January 15th, Iâm hosting a VISION BOARD WORKSHOP to kick off the year. Itâs called YOUR UNSTOPPABLE SELF and my goal is to help you create a VISION for 2024 that makes you want to show up and make PROGRESS towards it. So often we skip the KEY STEPS of becoming UNSTOPPABLE bc we dive right into action and then get burnt out, overwhelmed, and frustrated when we donât make progress.
I want this year to be DIFFERENT. I want to teach you how to become UNSTOPPABLE.
In this LIVE workshop youâll get:
âș a digital/printable goal setting workbook that will help you reflect on the past, create a vision for the future, and bridge the gap to make those dreams a REALITY.
âș a 90 minute workshop where Iâll guide you through the process of creating a vision board that not only aligns with the goals you set for your BEST, most UNSTOPPABLE self, but also reflects the habits, behaviors, and routines you need to adopt as well.
This goes BEYOND visualizing your "dream lifeâ and then letting it collect dust for the rest of the year...youâll be creating a deep sense of OWNERSHIP for who you are when youâre AT YOUR BESTâŠlaying the foundation for a year that can truly be UNSTOPPABLE.
âș and then youâll also get a digital vision board template via Canvas to help you create your vision board OR use as a guide to make a physical one if thatâs your jam, too.
Can't make it live? No stress â once you snag your ticket to join us you will have access to ALL materials, including a replay of the workshop after itâs over.
If the start of the year has you feeling excited for a fresh start, but unsure of where to begin. Or maybe you see the goals you have but the gap feels really freaking big. Or you just keep finding yourself on the same hamster wheel each year feeling like your efforts arenât actually getting you to your goalsâŠTHIS IS FOR YOU.
If youâre ready to make 2024 + trulyâŠBEYONDâŠUNSTOPPABLE, then Iâd love to have you join us in the YOUR UNSTOPPABLE SELF VISION BOARD WORKSHOP. đ€
As we step into 2024 and wrap this up I hope + pray you can embody these 4 principles of becoming unstoppable - getting clear on what it is you truly want to pursue + who you want to be, taking time to craft that vision for where youâre headed, put in the work and make the journey REAL by doing the dang thingâŠeven when itâs tough, and make it last by being the kind of woman who doesnât give up.
Your journey is unique and there is NO LIMIT to the potential you have my friends. I want you to walk away feeling that and believing that. Remember that future you is depending on current you to keep the promises youâre making right now. Consistency is you superpower this year. And the power to be unstoppable is IN you. I know this bc youâre here. Youâre growing. Youâre learning. Youâre reading a blog about BECOMING UNSTOPPABLE. So I know you want this for youâŠand I want it for you too.
Iâm rooting for you and I canât wait to see how 2024 is the year you truly become UNSTOPPABLE!
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