Message from Wade
WELCOME TO THIS MAGIC MONDAY MOMENT
Kicking off your week with some thoughts around a favorite Disney quote (because in my world - Disney is life!).
original message date: 11/20/23
Happy Monday!
This week – I’ve surfaced a quote from the 2023 Disney/Pixar film, “Elemental”. (Side note – if you haven’t seen the film yet – you really must. It’s so good!). Wade Ripple said this as part of his heartwarming speech to Ember Lumen (I won’t give away the context or the reason for the speech…seriously, go watch it):
Here's how my brain works (this may resonate with you) - it likes to default to “nope, can’t do that” when I have new ideas or an inkling to make a change or a thought about stepping out of the zone of comfort.
Now, that doesn’t usually happen right away. Typically – the excitement of possibility is firing on all cylinders…..for a few minutes anyway. But then that monkey brain kicks in. The one that finds a million reasons why something shouldn’t or can’t happen. My brain will offer thoughts like:
→ You don’t have the time.
→ Nobody will buy that.
→ You don’t actually know how.
→ You could fail, and then what?
→ You’ve done something like that before – it didn’t work then, it won’t work now!
→ It’s too scary.
→ It’s too risky.
→ It’s too irresponsible.
You get it, right?
A million reasons. A million no’s.
But…when we bring awareness to the no’s and realize that our brain is just trying to protect us from ‘danger’ (failure, embarrassment, the unknown) – we can step back into a more logical place.
We can set the no’s aside and see that the benefits of the yes – the one and only yes – might just outweigh those million no’s.
Because in the yes could very well be where we:
✨ find out what we are really capable of.
✨ become the person who creates the results we most want.
✨ make the magic.
You get to decide: listen to the million no’s or open up to the one yes.
So…what do you think?
What is your brain offering a million no's to right now? What would the one yes be? What would happen if you listened to the yes?
Wishing you a wonderful week. You've got this!
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