Learn to celebrate your wins

In the past 15 days or so Christina and I have invested more money into our business, 

well,

her business and my soon to be business, 

than we invested in our gym before it we opened.

Quite a scary thing to do, 

bet on yourself in such a big way. 

There is always a safety net of a job but I've never really had one of those and it's not what we want or came here to do. 

The thing is, there is nothing we can do about it but do our best work.

Seek to help people and hope that we create something that connects. 

Something practical that solves a problem for people in an entertaining way. 

Fear is a funny thing, 

Its just an alarm, a warning that's saying 

"Pay attention or you'll lose something you love". 

But at the same time, when we dig into it, our brain created the story that caused the fear to be present in the first place. 

Then like an annoying librarian it brings up every similar story from our past adding validity to that story. 

A story likely written by us as a child. 

We are wired for the negative so there will never be a shortage of negative back stories.

They are keeping us safe, or they think they are, but equally, 

they suck. 

What we forget is that we are
the story teller.
and the librarian. 

But the stories from our past that created our successes are far to seldom told. 

We don't celebrate our wins
We don't share our victories 

We don't look back at our frequent triumphs over adversity. 

We don't tell the stories that remind us what we are good at. 

and they are there, over and over and over they have occurred. 

Go back,

Have a look 

Remind yourself how good you are, 

Show yourself why you'll win

Your brain won't do it for you. 

Re-live it now. 

Seriously, start writing.

Ed Ley