Stretching and growing is so interesting isn’t it? Most people don’t believe this about me… probably my closest friends know it best, but I am actually extremely shy. I well up with fear at the thought of being in a room full of people that I don’t know!
Crazy for somebody who has been an international speaker and on stages of tens of thousands to say that isn’t it?!
But that is different from being in the crowd. Stretching myself and going to an event all alone without anyone I know in the room is difficult, and I’m doing that more and more. I’m at an event nervous as hell, to the point of tears about going into that room. Where is the stretch for me today? Its in not energetically shutting down. I have been gifted with amazing energy that people are wildly attracted too…until I am in a room full of strangers.
See, my typical way of behaving in those in the situations is to shut down my charisma, shut down my power, become a wallflower if you will.
People often perceive me as mean, or harsh when I shut down like that as you can imagine. When you are a person with a ton of energy naturally, shutting it down will “appear” mean. And that is definitely not who I am.
So I am committed to showing up in this room full of hundreds of people with all my brilliant power out, stretching and growing to be my best self. I feel fear, oh yes, but am NOT scared, because I am moving through it.
Where are you stretching and growing these days?
