I’m Baaaack!
It’s been a while. And I’ve been thinking about writing this for a good six weeks now but few things stopped me.
We all know getting back in the swing of things after you’ve gotten OUT of the swing of things is so much harder. Every time I experience this (whether it’s with eating healthy or exercising or writing my emails or insert any other good habit here) I promise myself I’ll never fall out of the habit again because getting back in feels SO much harder. And while we’re discussing it - why are only GOOD habits hard to get back into? The bad habits just seem to happen.
Anyhow…when I finally got my tush in the chair to write, I came up with nothing. NOTHING. How could I have NOTHING to say after five months?
But when I got super honest with myself, I realized that it wasn’t that I had nothing to say. I mean let’s be honest. I ALWAYS have something to say. It’s that my perfectionist self was looking for the perfect thing to write that would have people say “I’ve missed these emails in my inbox!” The biggest thing that stopped me was worrying about what everyone on the other side of this email might think - both about the fact that I hadn’t sent an email in so long AND that the one I’m sending is only OK! When I finally got tired of my own bullshit, it took me about sixty seconds to remember the mantra that my good friend and colleague, Brian, shared with me a couple years ago when I was WAAAAY overthinking something in my business. The mantra goes like this:
NO ONE CARES. NO ONE CARES. NO ONE CARES. NO ONE CARES.
You say it four times in a row and you can even sing it a little bit. And when you really wrap your head around it, you realize that NO ONE CARES is the most freeing mantra you can have!
How often do you find yourself worrying about what other people might think? The fact is, most of us have very little time to think about all of the things going on in our own lives, never mind worry about anyone else. So I’m here to give you the good news:
NO ONE CARES!
You might be wondering if I’ve totally lost my marbles in the five months that I’ve been absent from your inbox. But the fact of the matter is, this is cause for GREAT celebration! If no one is really thinking about you and how you live your life, you can stop worrying about it! And if you stop worrying about what other people are thinking about you, you are FREE to just live and take some risks and make the choices that work for YOU.
So go on! Do that thing that you’ve been thinking about for a while but were afraid of what other people would think…because hallelujah! NO ONE CARES!