It was about 6.30am and I’d just come back from a SUP. I was getting ready to start work and found myself brushing my teeth, putting laundry in the washing machine and making the bed — all at the same time. It was only when I realised that I was about to spit out my toothpaste all over the floor that it was pretty stupid to be trying to do a whole bunch of things at once.
A reminder to us that all we needed to do was focus on our own practice. Nothing good would come from looking around the room. Either we’d fall into a place of self-doubt because we didn’t feel like we were doing good enough or we’d jump into our ego because we thought we were doing better than everyone else.
On my ride back home, I kept thinking about it. Stay on the mat. I realised that this aligns so closely with where I’m at in my business.
Just last week, I came across this awesome quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (an American poet with a rad name)
‘Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare think’.
It seemed super relevant to me after that surf lesson, and even more so when I thought about how we could apply that to entrepreneurship. I work with so many clients who struggle with (the super common) Impostor Syndrome. Where, despite external evidence of their competence, they still hold this belief that they are, in some way, a fraud, and that they’re not good enough at what they do.
It’s been a week now since I left Bali for Australia, but my head is still spinning a little from the experience at the Surf + Social Good Summit (in a good way !).
I started writing this post a few times over the last few days, but somehow the words wouldn’t flow, or I’d have too many different things to say and not enough time to say them. So I figured I needed to let the dust settle.
I need to remind myself that sometimes, good ideas need a little time to grow & evolve.
But there are, however, a few things I that feel pretty certain about. Three lessons, in fact, that showed up for me in Bali, that I think might be worth sharing.
