Woke up feeling anxious & small? Try this…
Have you ever had a fish touch your foot while swimming in a lake that you can’t see the bottom of?
Being a born-and-raised Montana girl (who spent more time in boats than in cars), I can confidently tell you that I have. & for an anxious 10-going-on-30 year-old who tended to freak out about things that she couldn’t see or control…let’s just say my heart has felt some sh*t.
But do you want to know the WORST part of it all?
It’s never a fish that touches your foot.
It’s always a piece of algae or a stick that you’ve completely fabricated in your head as a flesh-eating water-dweller.
And that’s not an all-too-uncommon experience in business.
If you woke up this morning feeling anxious or small, there’s some sort of story in your head unfolding about how that little piece of slimy algae is actually about to grab your foot and pull you under the surface.
You’re only gonna go under if you let it take you under.
If you have kids or used to babysit growing up, you know that kids want to show you EVERYTHING. Whether it’s big or small, everything is massive to them. So when my clients are moving through big emotions, I always invite them to imagine that their big emotion is a little kid, yanking on their pant leg, trying to get them to pay attention to something.
Just because a little kid smells bbq smoke, doesn’t mean there’s a house fire.
Just because their plate is empty, doesn’t mean they’ll never get food again.
Just because something touches their foot in the water, doesn’t mean it’s a flesh-eating piranha.
My job is to help you parent your emotions, so that they don't make little-kid like decisions.
This is a 5-question system that I walk my clients through when they’re feeling heavy:
What’s the pressure source?
Whose is it? (It's prolly not yours)
What are the facts (not the feelings)?
What in this tiny, toddler like emotion asking you for right now? What does it need?
How can you give that to yourself?
By creating space to see that chimney smoke ≠ house fire, you can make a big-kid decision for your business.
You are not your feelings.
The fact that you can have a thought means that you cannot BE the thought as well. Emotions that drain your power are just debris floating in a lake.
Not a big deal. Call it what it is, give it a lil hug, flick it off & just keep swimming. Feel better?
Good.
Now go take an embodiment walk, hit the gym, or roll through some EFT to get you back into your CEO magic. I’m here when you need me. Salute,
Hayds
