Listen to the "What Ifs"

I remember last year at this time having a pit in my stomach.  I kept thinking,"This is the last year I'll be home with the boys.  I'll have to find a full time job next year when Carson goes to school.   I'll miss summer days of no schedule and water gun fights.  I'll miss being able to visit family in the middle of the week.  I'll miss being home during Christmas break with the kids.   I'll have anxiety about snowstorms and where the kids are going to go when the daycare is closed but we still have to work."

I knew it was inevitable but that first year home flew and the second went by even faster. 

I had flirted with idea of becoming a Beachbody coach.  I saw my friend, Paula, and she made it look fun!  She was getting in shape, helping others, earning an income, and I thought that it "might" be for me. 

But, no.   Those kind of things are for other people.  Not me.  

You see, I've failed.  Miserably sometimes.   And I don't just mean little failures.  I mean failed at a job so badly that I don't even put it on my resume, failed.  Oh, and that was a sales job just in case anyone thinks you have to be good at sales to be a coach.  

So, no, coaching wasn't for me.  

Or was it?????

Coaching seemed fun.  I would get to help people with their health and wellness again.  I would probably be more accountable to my own fitness goals if I were helping others.  I would get a discount on Beachbody products.  

Maybe if I worked hard on myself and for others, I just MIGHT be successful. 

Maybe if I found people who were ready to see real results and trusted me to help them, I could help more people than I ever did before.  

Maybe if I truly believed this could happen, it would. 

And it did.  

The last 10 months have been a whirlwind.  I've met and become friends with people I would have NEVER met without Beachbody.  I've reconnected with some of my favorite people from years past.  I've helped people get real results and pass those new healthy habits onto their families.  Recently, I've started to grow my own team of people who want to help others, too.  It's a place I honestly never saw myself but now that I'm here, I can't IMAGINE how I would feel if I had said NO instead of YES.  

I would probably have that pit in my stomach.   I would probably be sending out resumes, filling out applications to jobs, and scoping out the fastest routes to area hospitals.   I would be thinking of which daycare I would send the boys to and who was going to pick them up on what nights.  

I had every reason to say NO to this opportunity but the pit in my stomach and the "what ifs" made me say YES!

Saying YES has allowed me the opportunity to enjoy every second of this summer!    I'm not stressing about the fall because I'm STAYING at home.  I'm teaching a couple of classes and helping change lives both for my challengers and my coaches.  I've found my job when the kids go back to school and I can do it AND be with them!

Thank goodness the "what ifs" won!  

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