In today's episode, I share the lessons I learned through a complex and emotional journey of navigating whether or not to create something I was asked to create.
Recently a friend approached me and asked me to write the foreword for her book. Immediately, I said yes. But as I thought more about it later, I realized I had responded fully in my ego, and didn't consider whether this opportunity was really in alignment for either one of us. So I swallowed my pride and reached back out to her. I admitted that I had responded too quickly and that I actually needed a little more time to think about it.
Which opened up a beautiful conversation where we put all the options and well as all of our concerns and fears on the table. And we talked through them all.
And in the end, when I stepped outside of my ego and stepped into my inner knowing, I ultimately ended up agreeing (again) to write the foreword for her book. Because I realized it really WAS in alignment. But I needed to be able to put my ego aside in order to create it in the way I was supposed to create it. And what ended up flowing out of me in the creation process was so much more beautiful and so much more powerful than anything I ever could have created had I attempted that process from a place of ego.
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