I See You

Yep, you.

I see you reading my emails, liking my posts, and even if you don’t reply or comment, I can feel your positive energy and your head nodding up and down and your spirit yelling out silently, “Yes! Yes! YES! That is true!”

I see you with the fire of ambition burning inside you, untamable and unruly at times, always wanting to create and grow and wanting…more.

I see you feeling the heat and incessant demand of this flame, uncertain about how to manage it in a healthy way. Sometimes it fuels you to great accomplishments and sometimes, you’ve learned, it burns.

I see you striving to play all of your roles perfectly: beast mode boss or business owner, engaged and loving parent, committed community member, attentive friend, healthy human being. I see that sometimes showing up in all these different roles wears you out and you long for rest.

I see you tossed about in the unsolicited and often volatile waves of public opinion because let’s face it, to do ANYTHING in today’s world elicits a response. For as long as you remember, when you use your gifts, you get some stuff done. It’s just who you are. Getting stuff done means you also get lots of feedback…some positive and some negative that stings in spite of your best attempts to ignore it.

I see you with the swirling brain, full of a non-stop borage of ideas and thoughts and I see you wishing at times you could turn down the volume of your thinking and quiet all the noise. I see you at times escaping this noise in unhealthy ways and it makes me sad.

I see you skeptically considering the idea I keep throwing out there that perhaps, just maybe, you could really work less and earn more. Gasp. Really? Yep, I see you wondering if that could work for you. It goes against much of your programming that yells at you to push through and that taunts you with the false but vivid warning that the only way to fail is to quit.

I see you behind walls life has taught you to keep high and thick, isolated because your strength, brilliance or beauty intimidates people and you’ve learned to keep the shiniest parts of you largely hidden so everyone else feels more comfortable.

I see you reading my words in the quiet moments between meetings, carpools, or when everyone is finally in bed and wondering if you have the courage to reach out and to prioritize an investment in YOU. Maybe it’s in a group or one-on-one coaching engagement, or maybe an online course, but everyone’s needs around you feel pressing and they take priority.
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​I see you.
I really, truly do.