Embrace Your Ambition and Create a Life Beyond Ordinary

Fitting in is a dismal benchmark.

If you want a successful (by your own definition), authentically happy life as an ambitious woman, you have to be willing to let go of caring so damn much about what’s “normal." Other peoples opinions of your goals, dreams + desires get to stop mattering. "What's normal," gets to stop mattering.  

Just because "everyone" else thinks it, says it, does it, believes it, or cares about it doesn't mean it leads to fulfillment, happiness, joy, expansion, or success. Please, don’t let what everyone else is doing -- or saying, to you, or about you - set your standards. Does “everyone else” have a life filled with passion, purpose + joy? Or, more importantly, does everyone else have the life YOU want? 

Nope.

Not by any stretch of the imagination. The truth is, most “normal” people feel sad, sick and lonely. That’s not a value judgement, that’s just the sad truth, supported by sad statistics. If you don’t want what “most people” have, you have to choose to do things differently, to BE differently. 

This is your invitation to STOP being normal and start getting weird! You know what’s not normal?  

⟡ deciding for yourself what works best for your family, instead of letting society, or your sister, or you mother-in-law, or the internet dictate how you should raise your kids, what your career should look like, or what a great marriage looks like

⟡ being kind to yourself, instead of berating yourself

⟡ being grateful for your body, instead of trashing yourself every time you put on a swimsuit

⟡ a commitment to continually setting and achieving goals that allow you to live your best life + create your biggest dreams

⟡ being willing to be seen, and look different than the woman next to you

⟡ investing - time, money and energy - in yourself + your dreams

⟡ unapologetically supporting yourself on your journey to doing, giving, and being YOUR best

Not being normal is weird. Being weird means being different. And being different is HARD.

But guess what? Your life will have hard either way. All versions of life come with hard. It's not a matter of choosing hard vs. easy. It's a matter of choosing what kind of life you want to create, and whether or not you'll show up for the hard that comes with creating it. 

Being an ambitious woman, an ambitious mom, committed to creating a life of freedom inside and out -- isn’t for everyone. It's def not the most common path. It's different, and if you really choose it, you'll have to let go of "normal," and step out into what feels a whole lot like "crazy" sometimes. But it's worth it, because that's the only way it gets crazy good. 

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