Will You Dare To Bet On Yourself?

Hello, dear one!

Do you remember a time when you dragged yourself to a stressful job, coerced yourself into a lifeless gathering, or suffocated yourself to entertain a narcissist? 

How did you feel afterward? 

Yap, in your depleted state of being, you regretted and even hated yourself for continuing, which only begot more frustration and self-disapproval. 

If you didn’t stop that job, that meeting, or that person immediately, don’t blame yourself. Since birth, you’ve been programmed to honor your intellectual mind and discouraged to follow your heart and listen to your body.

What will happen if you decide to honor your feelings and bet your life on yourself?

Recently one of my mastermind group members dared to bet on herself.

She had been working with this client for weeks, but with no progress. Despite her efforts to help him with a new solution, he insisted on going back to his problems.

For weeks, she felt drained and frustrated. But she genuinely wanted to transition him to a better place. She kept going, enduring his lack of cooperation and self-actualization.

One day, after verbalizing her frustration in front of the mastermind group, one God sent messenger jumped in and asked her if she dared to honor herself, if she was ready to leap to a unknown space, and if she was willing to let go of this client and refund him, in full.

A week later, looking radiant and vibrant in her orange-red top, she shared a new story with the group. 

She FIRED her client and gave him a full refund, not the unused part, but every penny he had paid her for the entire program!

She walked away from the energy that diminished her. She still doesn’t know who will show up to replace him next, but she refuses to stifle her work passion for the wrong client. 

To some people, her choice might sound impetuous. After all, we’ve all been taught the virtue of tenacious effort even when things don’t work in our hearts.

In this case, the cost of keeping the client would have been exorbitant.

She chose to empower herself, “I feel so good. I feel so light. I feel so proud of myself.”

Proud she should be! She is a role model for her daughters that you shall bet on yourself in this lifetime, not on a government, a school, a career, a job, a company, a partner, or a friend. 

The minute you dare to bet on yourself, the Universe will support you. Jesus taught this when he sent his seventy-two disciples to preach the good news.

He instructed them to stay with families who would welcome them, and eat and drink whatever they offered. Stay and do not move around from house to house if they were treated well. Jesus reassured, “For the worker deserves his wage (Luke 10:7).”

You go where you’re valued and blessed.

But what about the families who didn’t welcome the disciples?

Jesus said to leave, and wipe the dust off their feet from the towns and families who didn’t welcome them. Cut them off with a clean slate.

Your time is your life. Don’t waste your life trying to convince someone who has no ears for you. Jesus reminded us that the harvests are plenty, but the workers are few.

Choose the right people for your harvest because they will value you and cause you to rise higher as a shining star.

One of my most admired content writers Alex Cattoni told a story about how three right friends made a difference for each other and the world, beginning in a steakhouse sharing ideas. 

When you’re hanging out or working with the right people, it’s like cruising life as Alex put: “The kind where you lose all track of time, share profound insights, drop crazy knowledge bombs, and inspire the hell outta one another.”

When my company gave me the ultimatum for a vaccine mandate last summer, I blessed my job and left immediately, knowing that I’m a citizen of God’s Kingdom. I belong to a space where I’m valued. God is opening doors for me that no one can shut.

As for my courageous colleague, the Universe is filling her barns, and the endless avalanches of abundance are pouring in. The Universe has her back! The power is in fearlessness.

If you don’t dare to bet on yourself, how do you expect others to respect you?

Why do I call myself a colonel? Either I get serious about living my life, or someone will make me exist or exit!