Sometimes heading into a new week with big events can feel like overwhelmingly like diving. The friday before I almost always want to last forever feeling like before the storm, saturday I want to pack in as many things as possible to feel like I had 2 days in one and sunday I spend wandering & resting until a 6pm cutoff. The whole weekend emulates the feeling of shutting off my eyes, bracing myself for a soft landing and waiting for it all to be over.
It recently dawned on me – that the point of these moments is not to close my eyes shut and wait for the big moments to pass me by – but to make the most of them. Similar to the experience of gliding through the air during a freefall, we can glide through any big moment without any of the anxiety, hesitation and wariness associated with it. And eventually, you don’t even perform well in those moments if you’re just trying to rush through them. The more you resist, the more the fear persists – and that’s definitely not you setting yourself up for success.
Glide, like water.
Instead – a proposition. What if we let go of the anxiety, quite literally. Glide through it all. Dive in headfirst, eyes open, ready to take it all in. Whatever happens, happens, but you’re excited, you’re like water, flowing through everything and anything that comes in. A big week only means you got an eventful life, and we’re not about the mundaneness. It’s not within your bailiwick to think about what people think, how they react or what they do. What is germane is you being you, like no one’s watching.
Try that. A day just living like no one’s watching. How different would your day be? Make that a week. How different would your week be?
Part of becoming fearless is leaning in.