Altitude Adjustment

Life at a Higher Level

Archives for May 2020

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I see you

I see you running on a hamster wheel that never stops and just keeps spinning faster and faster.

I see you trying to work like you don’t have kids and parent like you don’t have a job.

I see how defeated you feel when you look at the overflowing kitchen sink, the laundry that never seems to get caught up no matter what you do, that bathroom that hasn’t been cleaned in who knows how long, the packets from school that you keep meaning to get to but the kids haven’t even started yet.

I see you saying yes to one more Zoom call, one more committee, one more late night trying to get caught up, one more, one more, one more because who else is going to do it?

I see you burning yourself out day after day after day with no end in sight.

I see you.
I know you’re tired.
I know it’s relentless.
I know you feel stuck.
I know you’re ready for a break from being the strong one all the time.
I know it feels like that’s never gonna happen.

So let’s figure it out. Let’s get you off the hamster wheel so you can breathe again. Let’s get you a freaking BREAK already. Because you can’t keep going like this. And you don’t have figure this out by yourself.

Book a free session for yourself, gift one to someone you care about, or both. Even when we’re apart, we don’t have to do this alone. Sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/altitudeadjustmentintro

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Life is happening right now

It was a gut punch when I realized I’d been waiting for my life to start—like there was some magical green light when things suddenly would begin happening, and nothing mattered up to that. And the start line kept getting farther away instead of closer.

When I’m in my 20s I’ll have my shit together. Then, game on.
No, when I’m in my 30s.
No, when I’m married.
No, when I have a house.
No, no, when I have kids.
Noooooo, no, no, when I finish school.
When I’m debt free, that’ll be it.
When I get through my to-do list.
When my business is up and running I can get started.
No, no, when my NEXT business is up and running.
And on
and on
and on.

When I was waiting for my life to start, the start line kept moving. Nothing was enough. I was buffering endlessly.

And here’s the thing. Life is happening right now. Imperfectly. Beautifully. Constantly. Right now. And when I kept waiting for it to start, I was missing that it was already happening.

Have you been waiting for life to start so you could do The Thing? Be The One? Take The Chance? What if your start line could be right now? Let’s find out.

Apply here to start your transformation journey.

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Dreams aren’t just for other people

I don’t know about you, but I was a dreamer when I was a kid. I had big dreams and big plans because that was the only kind I knew how to have. I lived huge because no one had told me yet I was supposed to be small.

But then someone told me dreams were for other people.
Changing the world was for other people.
Writing books was for other people.
Having wealth was for other people.
Traveling the globe was for other people.
Living as if anything was possible was for other people.
Who did I think I was?

The older I got, the smaller I became.

I learned not to talk so much.
To be quieter.
To take up less space.
To be practical.
To be acceptable.

I disappeared in to the life others created for me, a life that made *them* comfortable. I lived it, but it wasn’t mine.

I built walls around my dreams, my plans, my possibilities. I told myself I didn’t want them, that they were silly, that I was ridiculous, that it was selfish to want something for myself.

And still, a voice inside kept saying, “This isn’t it. You know this isn’t all there is. What are you DOING? This is not your life.” I tried to make the walls higher to block it out, but unlike me the voice wouldn’t stop talking.

So I decided to join it.
I stopped apologizing.
I stopped pretending.
I stopped silencing myself.
I stopped asking permission.

I let the joy back in.

Dismantling the walls brick by brick has changed everything.

One of my favorite poems is “Mending Wall,” by Robert Frost: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out.”

What are your walls protecting?
What’s on the other side?

Let’s find out together.

Apply here to start your transformation journey.

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What if you’re not doing it wrong?

What if you’re not doing it wrong?

What if you’re doing it right and it’s just hard?

What if how you’re feeling is perfectly normal?

What if the reason you can’t get through the to-do list isn’t that there’s something wrong with you—but that the list is just too damn much and you don’t have to do it all?

What if you’re not failing at all?

What if what you’re doing isn’t just good enough—what if it’s more than enough?

How would that feel?

When are you ready to feel that way?

If it’s now, apply here to start your transformation journey.