Hi, welcome holster Byron here. And I want to officially welcome you to week one of your failure to freedom course. So this week's affirmation is a really powerful one. And it's one that I really want you to take some time focusing on and meditating and working with, because this will set the foundation for the next five weeks to come in the hopes of really moving yourself forward out of your comfort zone and into the best life possible. So this week's affirmation is courage. And I feel like courage is such a pivotal, groundbreaking marker for us.

That is, in fact, we are feeling as though there's loopholes in our lives. And we are feeling as though that we can accelerate ourselves forward. But we're not exactly sure how, in order to make change, we have to have the courage to do it. So I want to read you some of my journaling notes and hopes to inspire you a little bit more towards This week's practice so having courage is the ability to confront. So what is it that you need to confront in your life right now? Is there a person that you need to confront?

Now I want to caution you that if you feel like I really got to say something to someone, take some time and meditate on what you want to say. When you muster up the courage. We don't want to be fueled by anger, we want to be fueled by empowerment and clarity. So when we think about courage equaling confronting, we really want to make sure that we're confronting things for the right reasons. For most of us, that which means confronting fear, discomfort, anger, uncertainty, and for me, the fear thing is such a huge component as to what was keeping me kind of in the septic tank of my eating disorder and keeping me at the foot of failure continuously over and over again was I was afraid. I was just Free of what people would think of me.

Afraid of being Rast afraid of being stupid and not understanding what was going on. Fear of people not liking me that was such a huge one. I've been a people pleaser most of my life. And so working on that has been such an act of courage for me to acknowledge why that was happening and to stop that. And so I have to continuously bring courage into my life on a daily basis, in order to say no, I'm going to stop this cycle. I'm not going to continue to act this way.

I need to be able to speak my truth, not be afraid of my truth and understand that you know what, not everyone's gonna like me. But that's not a reason for me not to accelerate myself forward. So I have to have courage every single day, to stand up for myself to believe in my business, to speak up for my family to speak up for my children to be a voice. And every single day I do that and with that, I do it with courage. So we can't practice anything consistently without courage, I would totally agree to that. Think about all the things in your life that you've pushed through from beginning to end.

I'm in a course right now. And it's really pushing some of my buttons and ruffling some of my feathers because it's things that I'm not used to. It's things that are making me uncomfortable. It's pushing me into a place of having to do things that aren't my normal routine things I totally can do. But it's making me have to reflect and look outside my comfort zone. Okay, how much do I want this?

Do I want to move from failure to freedom? Do I want what I say I want and I have to have the courage and the guts to keep going. Even though in my head, I may be feeling uncomfortable. So when I think about courage, I often think about Okay, acting and courage means that we are acting on what our soul yearns for. What our soul is. desires from us.

And we bring that courage in, when we bring in that like, I am so sick of being everybody's doormat, I am so done with just kind of moving through life. We have to have the balls to show up, so to speak. And I think for me when I look back in my life, and when I look at other people, and some people I would be angry with or I'd be like, oh, what are they think they are? It usually was because I was jealous. I was jealous because they had the courage to step up and do something in their life to get what they want. And quite frankly, I wasn't willing to I wasn't ready to.

I would see people in my field or business, doing things that I only in my head were dreaming of doing. Whether it be making a change in my business, adding something to it. Shifting directions fearlessly And I think that in order to do those things, one, yes, courage is a big thing. But how do we cultivate the courage that we cultivate the courage by believing that we're worth it? We cultivate the courage by saying to ourselves, either I need to learn to be okay with how things are right now. Because if I'm not willing to change anything, that's what's going to happen.

I have to learn to be okay with everything that is right now, in order for me just to not change anything. So when we decide that we're not, we're not happy anymore, where we are, where we're uncomfortable, and we're being pushed, we have to be willing to push be pushed, we have to be willing to get uncomfortable. We have to be willing to use our voice at the expense of maybe losing somebody or shifting our business or totally changing directions or whatever it is, no matter what we do, there's going to be a risk. But at this point, when I act encouraged, I will willing to take that risk because if I don't, I will never know. So this is A week, if you don't take that you will never know step up with courage, whether it's to speak up to somebody, whether it's to change maybe your direction in your business, or change your focus with your kids or whatever it is, know that you're going to get uncomfortable when you do that.

But the result is again, what this whole course is about moving from failure into freedom, and you absolutely deserve that freedom. And I'm here to support you along the way. All right, good luck this week. I'm here for you. From my heart to yours or my soul to yours. Do the work and I'll see you next week.

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