you already did the hardest
thing you'll ever do.
You already did it, and I don't
know what that thing was for you.
The divorce, the death, the
diagnosis, the bankruptcy, the betray.
Whatever that thing was that happened that
split your life into before and after.
But I do know this, you survived that.
You are here listening to this breathing
existing, and now you are scared
to do the next step of your life.
Welcome to your mini memo drop.
Here's what's going down.
Your brain forgot to update its resume.
It is still running.
On this old threat system that got created
from before you proved that you were
indestructible, before you survived.
That thing that you know that happened
that should have destroyed you.
Your brain is still acting like
you're that person who hasn't yet been
tested as if you don't have receipts.
You didn't actually walk through
hell and come out on the other
side standing fully intact.
So now everything feels
equally threatening.
An uncomfortable conversation feels
as dangerous as a cancer diagnosis.
Making a pivot in your business
feels as scary as a divorce.
Raising your prices, charging what
you're worth, claiming your value feels
like it might actually kill you because
your nervous system cannot tell the
difference between, Hey, this might
be awkward and mm, this might end me.
And that's not weakness on your part.
It's not a defect, it's a filing error.
Your brain misfiled your survival
story instead of filing it under proof
of what I can handle, it got filed
under things that almost killed me,
so let's never risk anything again.
Wrong folder, wrong
lesson, wrong conclusion.
The thing that should have broke you,
that was your doctorate in survival.
That was your masterclass in not dying.
That was your brain literally
rewiring itself to handle the
un handleable and you passed.
You're here, but your brain didn't
update your security clearance.
It's still treating you like a
civilian when you are special ops.
So here's the software update.
Next time it feels like something
is too scary, too risky, too hard.
You say this, I've already
done things harder than this.
Not as an affirmation, it's a fact.
It's data.
It's evidence that your brain apparently
forgot to enter into the system,
the thing you're afraid to say, the
conversation, you're avoiding the price.
You want to charge the boundary that needs
to be set, the move you need to make.
You've done harder things, you
have survived worse things than
someone being disappointed in you.
Your brain is treating
you like you're fragile.
When you have documented proof
that you are titanium, it's
running this pre- trauma software.
When you've already been upgraded
to the Bulletproof version,
the worst has already happened.
You are still here.
Everything else is just paperwork.
Stop letting your brain gaslight you
into thinking you can't handle something.
You've already handled the UN handleable.
Your resume is stacked.
Baby.
Your brain just forgot to read it.
Time to remind it.
Who the fuck you are.
Go bet on yourself.