Ashley has decided that she’s a walking oxymoron….

“I am a dreamer. I dream big. I get halfway through and I'm fizzled. I love ready, fire! And then I'll aim later. But then I'm also a perfectionist, which means everything has to be right in order for me to get it done. I can't do it, right, I won't do it at all. I get stuck in analysis paralysis, and I don't actually fire. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim, aim, aim and I never get to the fire point.”

(She’s kind of a mess.) LOL

Heather is a perfectionist. (She’s also kind of a mess)

“That is actually why it took me so long to finally do what I tell everybody else to do. Isn't it amazing how the doctors make the worst patients?”

Heather’s story:

A while back I decided that I needed to put myself on my own macro plan and actually follow it. I was terrified to do it because I am a perfectionist. I will not do something unless I know I will win. I will be the best. There's no chance of failure or I won't do it. I heard myself saying, I don't think I can do this. I'm going to be starving. I'm going to…. I can't, I can't. I don't want to have to measure everything. I started saying all the things that all my clients say and that I always talk them off the ledge about. Then here I am Little Miss Hypocrite refusing to put myself out there because why? Because I was afraid, I was going to fail.

It's scary to really find out who you are and to take that person and put that person in a new and uncomfortable environment. But that's where the change happens. That's where the magic happens?

Finding what you're good at is a really good starting place. Because that's where we're comfortable. That's where we feel successful. That's where we are happy. That's where we know we can already do what we want to do. Then take it one step further.

Are you a morning person? Are you night person? Are you a perfectionist? Are you a dreamer? What are your natural strengths and abilities?

In your house, you know where your strengths and weaknesses are. Ashley just met with client that she said I love where my kitchen is. I know where everything is. Everything has its home. Everything is set up where my family can put things away. I know that I don't need to buy anything else because I know what's in my kitchen. My mudroom and office on the other hand, are complete chaos and total disaster.

She knew what she liked. “I want my mudroom and my office to feel like my kitchen.” She started with something that she knew was good, then took it one step further and said, “I can work on this to get it to where I want it to be, but this is really uncomfortable.”

This is what I love.

This is what I'm good at.

This is my starting point.

This is where this is where I want everything else to meet.

Where she was weak, she got the help.

Pride gets in the way and you don't want to admit that you don't know.

But that's why coaches exist. Look at the NFL, the NFL still has coaches, they still have trainers, they still have the people that are there to make sure that the best of the best are going one step further and playing off of their strengths. Let's make sure that you are growing in the meantime, and that you're not stagnating. You don't you don't see how much farther you could go unless you have someone like a great coach behind you saying, “Nope, you can do that better. You can throw that ball farther; you can run that much faster. You can climb that mountain faster.”

We want you to identify your own strengths. What are you good at? What are you naturally inclined to do? Then we want you to go find somebody that can help you. Take it to the next step. Go find a coach. Stop talking and do!