Fear has a cunning way of diverting our attention towards obstacles and limitations, causing us to lose sight of our goals. But fear not; this video sheds light on the transformative power of unwavering focus.
Mary and Jill teach life and personal development skills to teen and tween girls. The concept of fear is prevalent and very relevant with all of us, despite your age. Fear does a really good job of making us lose our focus.
Today's conversation is all around perspective. To face the giant, we have to overcome the giant. But if we're not careful, the giant will take us directly off course. When we play small, that's when our goals and our dreams get cut.
In this video, we want you to literally take a calendar full of 30 days of things that scare you. Small, big, everything in between, and dance with those fears on purpose. What this will help you do is prove it to yourself.
Do you know what? Fear does a really good job of making us lose our focus. Now, if you don't know me, my name is Mary. This is my best friend and business partner, Jill. And we teach life and personal development skills to teen and tween girls. But we know the concept of fear is really prevalent and very relevant with all of us, despite your age. So we wanted to bring this conversation to you in case you're feeling what we're feeling right now. And today's conversation is all around perspective.
So those giants in your life, I know that you are on a path of success in your personal life, your professional life, and all of a sudden, you think things are going in your way, and boom, boom, giant. A giant can come in and totally take you off course. And what we really want to paint the picture of today is the fight is never about the giant. Right. The giant can seem all consuming in the moment, but that's what the distraction is. You have overcome thousands of giants in your life, and you probably don't even remember what they are right now.
So we want to make sure that in facing your fears, you're keeping your eyes on the prize. Right. They say that in sports, a lot of. But realistically, it's about keeping your perspective honed in on what you're actually working towards and not taking it off that goal. To face the giant. Yes, we have to face the giant. Yes, we have to overcome the giant. But if we're not careful, the giant, aka the fear, will take us directly off course. And one thing that we are mantra that we always say in keeping our focus is noticing when we should all over ourselves.
So we say, quit shoulding on yourself. S h o u l d. Right. Should. And what does that look like in a sentence? It means I should be further along. I should be doing what they're doing. I should be married by now. Oh, and this is the focus, right? We're in the flow. Like Joe was saying, we're on track. We're doing, we're doing, we're doing. And then we open our phone and we start scrolling on social media and we see that someone else is doing something else. And we start comparing where we are in our journey to where they are and theirs without having any context of their actual life.
And that's when we start shooting all over ourselves. So in this conversation, not only do we want you to remember to keep the focus, right. Our light, our energy is very powerful when it's focused. And when we start shooting all over ourselves, we lose our focus entirely. And you play small. You play small. And again, I know in other videos that we've said this, but truly, when we play small, that's when our goals and our dreams get cut. That's when we do the world of disservice. Absolutely. And you look back on your life and you're like, I should have done that 30 years ago.
That thing that I always wanted to do. I should have done that. And in a previous video, we challenged you to experience, experiment with fear every single day on purpose. And we're really giving you that goal, that challenge. In this video, we want you to literally take a calendar full of 30 days of things that scare you. Small, big, everything in between, and dance with those fears on purpose. So what does that look like? It's taking a cold plunge. Yes. It's trying yoga. Ooh. It's taking a day off of social media, not gossiping all day long.
It's not complaining all day long. It's cooking for yourself if you don't cook. And what this will help you do? We know it might sound silly. We saw a few eye rolls from here. What this will help you do is prove it to yourself. Right. We need evidence. We need to see that we've overcome past giants in order to know that our future self will be able to do the same. We see it in you. You got this. And trust us, we're in it with you. We're constantly battling our giants. And if you need a space, you have us.
You have this platform. And just know that. Stop shooting on yourself because we know we are going to benefit greatly one day from those goals and those dreams. Until next time. We'll see you. Bye, everyone.
