You are ready.

If you’ve asked the question “Am I ready?” here’s the answer: YES! Your heart knows it, don’t let your head talk you out of what you know on a deeper level is true. We see it all of the time. It’s the belief that next class or the next book or the next guru will be the one that gives me what I need to fulfill my life’s purpose. What happens when you buy into that belief is that you spend all of your life and time and money (all of your resources) going after the next thing that will prepare you to do what you were already prepared to do when you came into this life!

Don’t buy into the marketing or the hype that you need anything other than what you already have. There may be tools that you’d like to add to your repertoire or certifications that you must have (e.g., to be a nurse in a hospital, you probably can’t really show up and say “I’d like to be a nurse” without having the license and training), but you can embrace your path and your guidance and pursue your dream without crossing all of the t’s and dotting the i’s. Remember, all you are doing is being who you truly are.

Once you decide to pursue your dream, everything will change. There is power in YES! but there is even more power in YES! with action attached. Sometimes, the action is making a decision about what makes you happy. If you don’t know that part, it’s more difficult to be happy. That would be like going to the grocery store to get “something” and having a hard time finding it. You will always have a hard time finding it if you don’t know what it is you’re looking for. And the only person who can tell you what you’re looking for is YOU.

Don’t let that scare you. You get to decide what you want over and over and over again. It’s not just a one-time thing. If you find that you don’t really want something you thought you wanted, that’s ok. You might want to look at whether you REALLY don’t want it or whether your head talked you out of it. Either way though, it’s YOUR choice to make. Just like you get to decide what you will have for breakfast, then what you will have for lunch, then what you will have for dinner today, tomorrow, and every day. You choose. You. Choose.

It’s a process that you are highly qualified for. In fact, you are uniquely qualified to do the thing you came here to do. No one else will ever do it the way you do it. That is your gift.

And, regardless of how many butterflies you have in your stomach when you think about it, you are ready.

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