As I reflect on my challenges and work on putting my book ‘Passionately Failing Towards Success’ together, I realize how much I have learned over the last 5 years. How much pushing and encouraging myself to do things I did not want to do has helped me fast track my progress. How my willingness to fail and try new things publicly, however extremely vulnerable, has helped me be more fearless. Today, I have already completed 3 weeks of my challenges and I realize I am still just as scared as I was in my first blog 54 weeks ago. I think that is the nature of growth and learning. We never get to the stage in our lives where we go, “You know what? I have learnt all there is to learn, I have done all there is to do, I have finished my life journey”. Just like a game, we can’t get to the next level until we complete the current one. As Google said, the purpose of levels in a game is to give you one main objective that you have to work out. Once you work out the objective you can progress through it, finish and move on to the next level. Levels can be straight forward, linear, or essentially small, curated open worlds. They serve as a tool to mark progress and gradually increase difficulty. That last line ‘increase in difficulty’ is exactly how I am feeling. I feel I achieved so much last year and the previous years. However, I am currently going through my biggest life lessons. I am having to dig deep at the moment to figure it all out. I am working through how to utilize everything I have done, studied, worked towards, know & what I am good at for the purpose of growing my Maia Dreams business, my career & initiatives. I want financial security and freedom so trying to figure out how to do that all requires some big work ahead of me.
All I know is that I will never be in this place again no matter what it takes. I'm overwhelmed & scared but there's no other way anymore "my ships have been burnt". "Ships have been burnt" is a saying from approximately 1,000 years before Cortez's Aztec conquest, Alexander the Great also burned his vessels when he and his army arrived on Persian shores. By burning the boats, the great general committed his army to winning over the Persians who greatly surpassed Alexander's army of men. In other words, I have no choice but to figure it out, stay committed & win!
It has been emotionally draining and I have experienced a myriad of emotions that at times have made me feel exhausted and debilitated. However, being aware that this is my life lesson to learn at the moment has offered me some relief. I know, as I work through it all, that the outcomes will greatly serve me in the long run to get closer to my goal of financial freedom. A few other areas that have been helping me at the moment are:
Pray and Communing with God
Asking People for Help
Talking it through with the Right People
Not Giving Up
Continuing to commit to my 3 Challenges.
So, this week has been a journey of epic proportion intense emotions and deep moments in solitude while in discussions with God and my Mumty. However, I have continued to stay committed to my daily routines as a part of my 90 Day Challenge to improve my Discipline and ‘Take Relentless Consistent Action’. I have stayed committed to working on my yearlong challenge of ‘‘Passionately Failing Towards Greatness’ and that is continuing to never give up no matter how hard it gets. Being willing to face the repercussions of decisions made and the outcomes of those choices and decipher my next steps. I have also stayed committed to doing my 30-Day Maia Self Growth Challenge that helps me track my progress daily. So, this week has taught me that life lessons and experiences are unavoidable and the best way to deal with them is taking one step at a time and facing it head on.
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