This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

I’ve given you all these different names for fear in the last few weeks and likely over time those are things.

That you may have even thought were part of your character or maybe they’re part of the character of your family.

And they follow a storyline so you’ve accepted them as kind instant companions.

But my question today to you is what excuse, what reason are you going to allow if any to derail your vision?

To stop you in your tracks?

To keep you smaller than you know you’re meant to be?

I hope you say no.

There is none.

There are none because those things can feel so big.

They can feel insurmountable.

And if you just decide that there’s going to be nothing that keeps you from your expansion.

Nothing that keeps you from figuring out how to navigate to your vision, then all those excuses are off the table.

When I was in college I was on the women’s rowing team at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

The first day of practice they told us that we would have practice every day no matter what.

We would have it. If it was minus twelve degrees and there was a blizzard, we would have it. If there was a lightning storm we would have it.

If it was 102 there would be no reason why the practice would not go on as scheduled.

What do you think that did for us?

When that happens, when you have non-negotiables, you don’t negotiate with them and you just go in.

And you figure out how to do whatever has to happen, whatever gets to happen for it to be completed.

It made us so mentally tough.

I would dare to say that we were the toughest mentally of any of the collegiate teams in the United States.

And that was because where we lived was cold and icy.

And during a good part of the training season, we were running through slush and snow and we weren’t able to row on water.

So we were rowing in these big holding tanks.

All these things that we could have complained about we thrived on them because they made us tougher.

So I’m going to ask you again what excuse, what reason, what trouble, what problem, what obstacle.

What variable is going to be bigger than you and keep you from what you’re interested in experiencing?

That’s my coaching for you today.

Oh and one more thing.

The difference between my dad and I, when we exercise, is that I leave exercise the time and how it looks up to an internal negotiation.

I leave the door open to possibly not doing it.

My dad doesn’t.

He works out like I did as a member of the crew team.

He works out every day he says he’s going to and he works out at the time he says he’s going to unless.

He gets up earlier to fit in in because there’s a doctor’s appointment or something.

Even when my mom was in the hospital with a broken hip.

He figured out how to get up early enough to get some level of workout in before we went to see her.

What are you willing to make your non-negotiable?

What is to you what is so set in stone that it’s done?

It’s already done.

And there’s no chance of it not being done.

Sending you love.