Every next level requires a deepening, a recommitment, a remembrance of the vision you are creating.

When Spike and I first made the decision to stay in Australia, we made the commitment not knowing when we would return.

He thought a few weeks

I thought a few months.

And here we are over one year later.

I joke we packed for three weeks and are now staying for three years.

Back in January, a deepening to the commitment to live here happened again.

It wasn’t just my dad’s death. That was also the time our visa was about to expire. 

WE HAD A DECISION TO MAKE - A DEEPENING. A RECOMMITMENT.

1. Do we go back to family, friends, and the familiar, in the face of tragedy? 

2. Or do we continue to lean into the vision we set forth eight years ago - traveling the world, raising our kids in different countries, experiencing new cultures, and enjoying the freedom in this pandemic-free paradise?

We also had to look at the life that we were currently providing to our kids, and the fr...

Fear inspires no one. Sure, it motivates. Of course, you can really get moving with fear, but ultimately chaos and fear don’t inspire.

Inspiration is divine. It’s soul connecting with soul.

Courage is inspiration in motion.

Having the courage to admit when you’re scared.

Having the courage to go into the arena.

Having the courage to do what someone else won’t or believes they can’t.

That inspires.

Courage ignites the flame of possibility in others. Fear snuffs it out.

Inspiration is hope. 

It’s an example of the possibility that there can be something greater, something beyond, something worth going for.

ACTS OF COURAGE LEAD TO PURPOSE.

For usually, when you’re acting with courage, you don’t know how it’s going to play out. Heck - whoever does!

Courage is taking that aligned action, and moving forward in faith.

It’s Divine.

It’s aligned.

It’s not always what someone else said you “should” do or what “would be good for you.”

It’s sometimes defying logic, reason, and the ...

Ever not “feel ready?” Like, someday, somewhere, out there in the future, there will be a day when you feel ready to take that leap, move to that country, start that business, find that relationship, have that baby.

Look, I can tell you honestly...

I don’t feel ready. For any of it.

But then again, I never did. 

I didn’t feel ready to leave my ex.

I didn’t feel ready to become a partner in a quarter of a million-dollar start-up.

I didn’t feel ready to commit to a relationship with Spike. 

I didn’t feel ready to be bought out of my eCommerce business.

I didn’t feel ready to hire a coach.

I didn’t feel ready to coach.

I didn’t feel ready to start another business. 

I didn’t feel ready to start having sales calls.

I didn’t feel ready to have a baby.

I didn’t feel ready to move to Australia.

I didn’t feel ready to take my income to multiple 5-figure months.

I didn’t feel ready to double my income last year. 

I didn’t feel ready to lose my dad.

I didn’t feel ready for ANY o...

I don’t feel the need to perform. I don’t feel the need to achieve a fucking thing right now.

I am totally 100% content at this moment with just being.

And I’m sitting with the weirdness and the greatness of that.

I MEAN HOW OFTEN, AS A HIGH ACHIEVER, AS PARENTS, AS BUSINESS OWNERS, DO WE GIVE OURSELVES THE PERMISSION TO JUST BE?

To NOT do?

To NOT perform?

To NOT achieve anything other than full presence and enjoyment at this moment?

To NOT “be on” all the time for everyone. 

To NOT need to achieve any goal other than being?

And to actually be 100% content and okay with that?

It’s one thing to compare yourself to others and how they are performing, what they are doing.

It’s totally another thing to compare yourself to a past version of yourself.

At some point we evolve beyond looking to other people to compare ourselves to - we know that’s a lose-lose scenario.

But, comparing ourselves to ourselves - well, how do we escape that?

Especially when we’ve achieved a lot.

Espe...

I don’t write content to write content. 

I don’t do it because I “have” to. 

I don’t make podcasts because it’s the latest coolest thing that all the “legit” coaches are doing. 

I didn’t start a Youtube channel to be cool or to get a Streamy or to be some “influencer.”

I don’t send emails because I “need to stay in touch with my list.”

I don’t sell my courses to just hawk some random shit I threw together because “everyone’s got a course” these days. 

I didn’t make Mindful Monarchs just so I could have some passive income streams coming in.

And I don’t coach because it’s the latest trend, or a hot industry, or the thing that some marketing guru said I “should” do to have multiple 5-figure months. 

I DO IT FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ALONE…

I can’t NOT.

I feel like my soul is starved if I don’t serve someone every day. 

I lose my voice when I feel I haven’t fully expressed my gifts. 

I literally physically feel like I am about to explode if I haven’t written something - an...

Ever felt out of step? Off the beat?

There is a feeling when you are living in the flow of faith and possibility...and when you’re not.

When you’re stuck in frustration and overwhelm it feels like you’re the Universe's dance partner with two left feet, tripping over yourself, fumbling, tumbling, and stumbling trying to hold it together with some modicum of grace.

Trying to find your groove can just feel so trying, right?

So stop trying.

SERIOUSLY, THAT’S A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM IS YOU TRYING TO HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER WHEN YOU’RE CLEARLY IN NEED OF A RESET.
It’s in those moments of funky-off-beat rhythm that you STOP.

STOP the music.

Press pause.

Recalibrate.

Reset.

Take a breather.

Take five.

I remember back in ye olden days when I was dancing, there was one part in this Spanish dance that I just wasn’t getting. I kept trying to get it perfect in practice. My Russian teacher kept yelling at me.

“Kimberly!” he’d shout in his thick Russian accent, “It’s da-dah-da-de-dah-de ...

Have you ever received feedback for your work that blew you away? 

Like, I’m talking knock you off your socks, holy cow, “damn I am awesome” level of validation for the soul-work that you do day in and day out every day? 

IT’S EASY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU’RE OPERATING IN YOUR ZONE OF GENIUS TO GET LOST IN THE PARADIGM OF NATURALNESS (BECAUSE BEING IN YOUR GENIUS ZONE FLOWS WITH SO MUCH EASE) TO FORGET THAT THIS, THIS IS WHAT SEPARATES YOU FROM EVERYONE ELSE.

We forget - because it’s BECOME WHO WE ARE - that there are people who struggle in this or that area that we have just freaking mastered.

That’s why I share this today with you.

This email is NOT from me. Heck, it’s not even written by me. It was written by Lara Zielin to her Author Your Life community about her experience in our High-Performance Consult Call…

With her permission, I am sharing it with you - her vulnerability, openness, and candor speak VOLUMES to the type of work that we will be doing together in the How to Clai...

Oops, I did it again. Yes, I pulled a Brittany. No, I didn’t run off and get married...again. I caught myself doubting myself. #OhNoSheDidnt

Yes, even now, even after the Universe mother-effing DELIVERED LIKE A MOFO last year in #alltheways, I still caught myself spiraling last week in a story of “not being supported.”

Ah, fear.

Doubt.

My old friends. Good to see you again. Thanks for the lesson...again.

I dove deep into this self-limiting belief of “not being supported” in our latest coaching workshop with our Mindful Monarchs Membership on Monday. 

BECAUSE, REALLY, THE WORK IS NEVER DONE.

And having coached high achievers now for the past five years, I’ve noticed that it’s not really “new level, new devils.”

Typically it’s the same motherfucking devil that keeps showing up...just in different forms.

Sometimes it’s in the form of your body.

Sometimes it’s in the form of your business.

Sometimes it’s in the form of your relationships.

The point is, not where it shows up in ...

Consistently throughout these past trying months facing the deepest fear and acceptance of loss I have ever known after losing my dad, I have been told, “You’re so strong.”

Or, “You’re the strongest person I know.” I don’t say this to brag. My mom has too.

And I’ll be honest, I am strong and I’m tired of being strong and I’m proud of my strength at the same time.

Sometimes the “strong ones” struggle most when they feel anything but. 

And that’s how I’ve felt on and off for the past few months since my dad’s death.

IT IS IN ACCEPTING THOSE AREAS WHERE I AM WEAK, ALLOWING YOU...HECK, ALLOWING MYSELF TO SEE MY OWN WEAKNESSES THAT I HAVE GROWN SO MASSIVELY.

Strength is forged in the fire of fear.

Fear of the unknown.

Fear of loss.

Fear of the process of becoming more than you thought you could, or rising beyond what you thought was even possible.

...even fear of your own success and greatness.

In fact, I’ve found having coaching high achievers for the past five years, that the f...