Cracked Pots

I know what it's like to feel invisible, to think it's too late to become what you've always wanted to be. You feel like it's too late to have more life. I felt that way too. But when I lost my brother to cancer, he made me realize I have way more life to live. And I discovered the choice was mine to live it or not. I know you want to become confident and empowered, and you deserve to step into that life you are yearning for. There is more greatness to come in your life. And I know you can feel it.

I've made a choice to live my big life.

Now it is your turn, to be empowered, and step into the life that has always been yours. It's time for you to step off the sidelines and into your own life, the one you were created to live, it's easier than you think. I believe in you. In fact, I am your biggest fan. So let's get started. I am so glad our dense, make us more beautiful and amazing. Women. so thankful. Our mistakes don't define us never have never will. That's a conversation I had with my daughter this morning, we were talking about how thankful we are that mistakes don't have to hold us back. That mistakes don't mean we're not valuable and worthy. That mistakes are only there to give us lessons. years ago, I read a book entitled God uses cracked pots, it was written by Patsy Claremont in 1988. Still an awesome read, I'm going to put a link in the show notes to this book, I highly, highly recommend this book. She takes a look at mistakes. she points out that we can laugh at ourselves. And we can learn from our mistakes. And God still uses cracked pots. I was in my late 20s or early 30s when I read that book. And I guarantee you that in the 20 years since I have made a lot more mistakes, some of them with more serious consequences than others. But even those mistakes that had grievous consequences, I am still a worthy human being. I am still a powerful woman with a message. Because my mistakes don't define me they never have and they never will. And they don't define you.

They never have and they never will. So why do we have mistakes in our life? Why can't we just all walk around perfectly perfect human beings, you know, like Mary Poppins practically perfect in every way. Why can't we just be perfect? Because mistakes teach us lessons. Because mistakes make us more amazing. Because mistakes make us more empowered. And because mistakes have lessons to teach us. Three truths about mistakes, grab your journals, unless you're driving, grab your journals and take notes. And if you are driving, come back to this and write these three things down three truths that mistakes teach us. Number one mistakes teach us lessons. Like the lesson that we're fallible, and sometimes we fall over and over again. And sometimes we fall so many times that we feel stuck. Listen, girlfriend, that's when we admit we are smack up against fear. And it's where we pick up our pow pow shoes, put them on our feet and race smack dab into the face of fear. Here's what happens. The fear disappears. doors open, people and opportunities appear seemingly from out of the blue. But they're there because you race towards the fear. And when you took down the wall, then people were able to see what you needed and opportunities were able to flow towards you.

Mistakes do that for us. Mistakes also teach us truths about ourself. You see, we want to cover up our mistakes. But listen up, that's a mistake. Mistakes tell your truth. Let go of the embarrassment shame blaming of other people for it. Let go of all that they're there so we can grow.

They're there so we can look in the mirror and really see ourselves. Mistakes take down the walls if we let them. Mistakes also teach us to take responsibility. Mistakes will say, hey, you need to look at your own role in this mistake, own up to it, do it differently next time. It is so empowering to own up to your own responsibility in those mistakes. Everything in your life is a direct result of you, your bank account, the condition of your house, your weight, your fitness level. It's all a result of you. But it doesn't mean that if these things are not in perfect running order that you are not worthy. It just means you've made some mistakes that you need to own up to and do things a little differently next time. those mistakes don't define you at all. Never have never will. I will keep saying that till I'm blue in the face until you believe it.

Those mistakes are not who you are. those mistakes happen to teach you a lesson. Mistakes teach you a lot about your integrity in that moment. Meaning were you over committed, were you avoiding conflict, not listening and breaking promises. You see you're out of alignment often when mistakes happen. So in my own life, I can look back and see at times when I made a lot of mistakes is because I was over committed. And I wasn't able to deliver on those promises. I was lacking sleep because I was over committed. And it all came down to not being able to say no. So I was doing things that were totally out of alignment with who I am, and with my core values. And it became this snowball of mistakes over and over and over. But they told me a truth about me. They told me carry you're out of integrity, you're out of integrity, get back on path. learn to say no, no is the most empowering word you will ever learn. No, thank you for thinking of me. But no. You don't have to say yes to everything. Keep yourself in your, in your integrity. measure everything up against your core values.

Mistakes will help you see that it's a lesson we get to learn. You're wondering why your energy is so low. You can't understand why you keep staying stuck in this mindset of scarcity and why you always end up in a victim mode. You would love to shift away from scarcity to abundance in your entire life. You'd love to get rid of all that anger and turn it into love. And you'd certainly love to get out of the loop of hopelessness and into a loop of aspiration. You just don't know how the answer is a daily practice of gratitude. I believe in this so much that I created an entire online program entitled unlimited gratitude, embracing gratitude, even when you're weary and worn, especially when you're weary and worn. And it is my gift to you. So if you head to the link in the show notes and enter the code coffee 100. at checkout, you will receive 100% off the purchase price. I will share with you in this program how this amazing power of gratitude is on your health, your happiness, your relationships and your overall well being. So head to the link in the show notes. Click on it. Use the code coffee 100 and I'll see you inside unlimited gratitude. So number one truth is that mistakes teach us lessons. Number two truth mistakes give us feedback and analysis on what works and what doesn't. Nothing will give you so clear a message as the consequences from a mistake. We learn habits that need to change. How can I use this experience to help me?

mistakes will help you to take a really clear look at the habits that you have fallen into? Do you need to change some habits? I share did when I'm out of integrity with myself. When I find myself over committed avoiding conflict. It's because I'm not saying no. And then what happens is I fall into this habit of staying up super late to get things done. Except that my body also likes to get up super early no matter what. And so I'm in this lack of sleep and the consequences. My health suffers a lot. I make mistakes. I don't do things at all Well, totally out of alignment and the consequences of me being sleep deprived, therefore making mistakes in fact so sleep deprived one time that I was working out on this sleeping probation, fell on a concrete floor and broke my wrist. That was a pretty severe consequence to a mistake of not listening to my own self. Very, very painful consequence. But I also learned that I had a habit that needed to change mistake gave me a lot of feedback and analysis on what works and what doesn't. What works is getting adequate sleep, what works, what doesn't work is not. So mistakes teach us lessons number one, and number two, they give us feedback and analysis on what works and what doesn't. They don't define us. It's just data, just like the number on a scale is data. mistakes, give us data. That's it. Number three mistakes inspire others. When we share our mistakes, we inspire others to live differently. I love this one. This is my all time favorite. My all time favorite thing about mistakes is that our mistakes inspire others. You see, we are so afraid to share our mistakes. Because we think they make us weak. We think people will look at us differently. But it makes us stronger. Also, many, many too many women shrink back in fear, because they are so afraid if I put myself out there, somebody's gonna find out something I did in my past, they're gonna find out all my mistakes. You know how you avoid that you tell them. You bring your mistakes to the light. You bring them to the light so that they can learn from your mistakes. You will inspire others with the mistakes you've made in your life. But you have to be willing to step out and tell people share your mistakes. Tell them please learn from my mistakes. You don't have to repeat these. This is what happened. They can't dig up a hidden mistake if it's not hidden. Be willing to share it so others can be inspired. When my brother was diagnosed with cancer, he knew his cancer was a direct result of lifestyle choices. And we started working together on his nutrition. And he wanted to inspire others to not make the mistake he made of eating fast food three, four times a day. He was on the road so much and he lived on fast food. And he wanted so much for others to not make that mistake that he was willing to share it in order to inspire others. He has been gone 10 years but his his life is still inspiring others he always wanted people to learn from him.

Mistakes teach us lessons. Number two, they give us feedback and analysis. And number three, my favorite our mistakes can inspire others if we let them. It is okay to fail. Your mistakes may be what someone else needs that mistake may have happened because someone in your life is going to need to learn from you. We learned powerful lessons from our mistakes if we let them our mistakes don't define us never have and never will. And all those dense, make us more beautiful and more amazing. more empowered. God still uses crackpots.

Here's your declaration. My dense are beautiful because get journaling, grab your journal, my dense are more my dense are beautiful because you are amazing.

You are fabulous. And I am your biggest fan. I love you and we'll talk again.