In this July 26, 2024 vlog, the creator reflects on day 19 of a 30‑day "following my dreams" challenge, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. After years of feeling stalled in her business, she describes a major breakthrough: a newly crystallized mission to help people discover and amplify their voice, building on recent work teaching on the Insight Timer app. She links this insight to the focused time she spent over the past 19 days on a novel rewrite, practicing French, and listening to her own aspirations rather than business pressures. She emphasizes the importance of temporarily setting aside routine to‑dos and business concerns to pursue what truly excites her, offering this as a strategy for anyone seeking a breakthrough. The video ends with gratitude toward supporters and a promise of more updates.
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Hello, bonjour! It is day 19 of 30 days of following my dreams. It is the 26th of July, 2024, the 26 juillet 2024, and it's very fitting, I think, for me personally, that today marks the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games here in Paris and that they are taking place on the send because today is the day that the tide has turned for me in a huge way. I mean, like, so big I'm having a hard time even talking right now. I'm literally gonna mark this date on my calendar. And without going into too much detail, I want to share a couple of things right now that might be helpful to you, and I'll share more of it later in the video, but For the past couple of years in my business, I have felt rather stalled. I have offered some amazing things during that time, I've helped a lot of people, and yet I still didn't feel like I had hit on what my real mission was. And that started to change earlier this year with some new work that I had been doing with people who wanted to get started on the Insight Timer app, being teachers on the app. And it has now really crystallized around something that I want to do going forward as my mission. And it's not even what the mission is, which I'm not quite ready to share. I may tell you a few details later in this video because again, I'm not sure I can contain myself. But the bigger point I want to make is that I believe the reason why I was able to come to this realization was because for the past 19 days I have been following my dreams. I have literally been putting in time and effort and energy into the things that have been calling to me to do for a very long time, especially the novel rewrite and practicing my French. But if you recall, if you watched any of the earlier videos, I might have even said it on day 1, that I wanted to be open to whatever ideas and opportunities might present themselves in relation to my entrepreneurial adventure, to my own business that I've had now since 2018. And so the fact that I have arrived somewhere that feels so secure, I mean, like, it's something that capitalizes on every strength that I have on every interest that I have, on what's really important to me at this stage of my life. I'm really getting choked up, sorry. It feels kind of like a miracle, and yet it isn't a miracle, is it? It's because I allowed myself even just a couple of weeks to do what I wanted to do instead of putting those things aside and saying, I've got to figure out this business problem. I've got to figure it out. You know, I need to start making more money. I need to, you know, offer something that people want and all that stuff. So if you are struggling to have a breakthrough around anything in your life, I highly recommend doing something similar to what I've been doing for the past 19 days. Set all of the to-dos off to the side, maybe forever. And focus on what you really want to be doing with your time and just go do that. So I will be back in just a moment and I will let you know what I've been up to today, and I'll tell you a little bit more about this massive breakthrough that I had.
It is just after 5 PM here, and I can tell by looking out the window that the opening ceremonies are probably going to get some rain, unfortunately. But that's just kind of the way it is. I have finished my work for the day, and I am just so excited to have landed where I have landed. I feel really, really good about what I'm going to be doing going forward. And it was so interesting because today I was listening to a talk that someone was giving about business and coaching and all of that, and they were saying that, you know, when we have conviction, when we know what we want to do, we just need to move forward and the how will make itself evident. and that is how I see this. I'm going in a new direction. I want to support people in a very new way about using their voice and being powerful as speakers and feeling confident, not just in what they're saying but how they're saying it. And even though I haven't offered anything like that before exactly, I know that it will sort itself out. It's important for me to listen to myself and to know that it's not only my voice that I want to amplify, but it's yours and it's everyone's who really has ambition to go out there and use their voice for good in this world. So that is what's coming up next for me. I don't know what tomorrow will bring, But right now I am feeling really grateful for you and for all of the support that you have shown me over these last couple of weeks or so as I've gone through this 30-day following my dreams adventure. There is still more to come, so I will talk to you tomorrow. A bientôt!
