534: Waiting Is Ruining Your Life
\u201cSara, I\u2019ve been getting your emails for 7 years and I\u2019m finally ready to sign up for your program.\u201d\nThis is the email I got from a prospective gym member back when I had my gym.\xa0\nThis woman had been waiting for 7 year - SEVEN YEARS - to finally qualify herself to change her life.\xa0\nShe came in to check out the gym a few days later and we immediately hit it off.\xa0After about 10 minutes, she confided in me, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I waited so long.\xa0I keep thinking where I would be if I just decided to start earlier.\xa0I\u2019m so mad at myself.\u201d\nI have to tell you, I have had this conversation with so many women.\xa0We excel at waiting, don\u2019t we??\nWaiting to join the gym.\nWaiting to go for the promotion.\nWaiting to ask for the raise.\nWaiting to ask for help.\nWaiting to start the hobby.\nWaiting to take time for yourself.\nWaiting to take a chance.\nWaiting to say YES.\nWaiting to say NO.\nWaiting to do what you want to do even if no one else gets it.\nWaiting to go for it even if no one believes in you.\nWaiting to choose yourself.\nYou know you want more - but you\u2019re afraid of failure, worried what others might say, and filled with self doubt.\nYou wait because you think there will be a better time, a better option, another chance.\xa0\nYou tell yourself you\u2019ll be more ready next week, next month, next year.\nYou watch others go before you and you decide they are more capable, more qualified, more worthy.\nAnd you wait.\nWhile you wait, you compromise your dreams, your desires, your sense of self\nWhile you wait you chip away at your happiness and your worth.\nThe waiting is ruining your life.\nI\u2019m here to invite you to STOP WAITING.\nListen in to hear how you can stop waiting and start living a fuller life without regret.\nLink mentioned:\nJoin us for the Shameless Mom Con Collective\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices