Dr. Tabatha Barber says constant busyness and too many strategies create anxiety that drowns out what you actually need to hear. Quietness lets you listen to God, your body, and your business. She calls this the "novice in the new" mindset: treat each day as a fresh start instead of clinging to what worked before.
Now you have so much, and, and we can get, you know, into so many, like, I need to do this, I need to do that, I need to— like, even, even with, like, weight loss, I need to do this, I need to do that, I need to follow this, I need to do that. And then, like, that anxiety that it creates doesn't create enough space to really hear what God is saying to you, what your body needs. What our business needs. And so that's the state that I'm in. It's just that real, like, getting quiet so that I can really hear, because quietness creates clarity. Like, going back, like, I— this season in our business and even my personal life, even my weight loss life, um, it's like if I keep looking back I'm holding on to old things that will never shift me. So if we're holding back onto things that used to work for us in our business, or used to work in how I used to lose weight, or, you know, uh, used to how I did things spirit— even spiritually, it's like they're dead. Like, I just have to be like, I'm new every day, and my body's new every day, my mind is new every single day. Has really helped me to not— I mean, I, I take the old stuff as learning lessons, but the new stuff as, um, as growth. So I heard a great statement, statement, and it was like, would you rather be, um, uh, an expert in the old or a novice in the new? And it was really powerful because of all the way things are changing. Um, in our whole world. And, you know, and it even goes back to our bodies. Like, I would rather be a novice in the new. I would just rather set my mind to figuring out and recreating new solutions for myself.
