You Decided You Weren’t Good at It

I've been heavily considering the decisions that brought me to where I am over the last few weeks.

Not one specific turn of events—more of a zoomed-out, this-led-to-this kind of reflection.

There's been a lot of disappointment over the years. Moments where the journey felt more like a nosedive off a cliff than anything close to a smooth path.

I think about the milestones I once dreamed about… and then surpassed.

Isn't it strange how even the best-laid plans can grow wings and turn into something else entirely?

I've wondered if my life looks different because I didn't have a clear vision until my 20s.

There's no clean way to know.

Last year, I started a project and clearly defined my role before we began.

I would handle A, B, C, and D—but I would absolutely not take on X, Y, or Z.

Not because I was above the work, but because I had already decided those things weren't my strengths. There are people far more experienced in those areas, and I didn't even want to try.

I was comfortable saying, "That's not my lane. Let someone else handle it."

Guess what tasks came back to me this week?

And you know what?

I wasn't terrible at it.

In fact, all the time I spent over the last year coaching other people on what needed to be done was the bigger waste of time.

Within 72 hours, I knocked out the entire stalled project.

It's done.

And it was far simpler than the work I usually take on.

I had built it up to be far more complicated than it actually was.

I was embarrassed with myself for not accepting it sooner.

We decide we are not good at things long before we've actually tried them.

So often, we reject opportunities because they don't align with the narrative we've built in our own minds.

It's time to live a little less afraid of being new at something.

A little less rigid in how we define what we're capable of.

I'm not telling you to perform heart surgery on a chipmunk.

I am telling you that you are capable of far more than you give yourself credit for.

The only thing holding you back is the limiting beliefs you have about yourself.

As soon as you release the "I am only" or "I can only" thoughts, this world breaks wide open, and anything becomes possible.

It only takes the tiniest amount of faith to bring a dream into reality.