I fulfilled one of my personal dreams this year, but not without headache and heartache along the way. While I knew that this play was going to be all worth the twists and turns, there were things that stood out to me that I thought I was prepared for but turned to be the most painful yet fascinating and necessary experiences I have ever had. One of my favorite coaching lessons that I read from Jen Sincero in her book You Are a Badass and could fully relate to during this process is this:
Birthing your dreams is like … giving birth. Conceiving the idea is the fun part (hopefully), then you go through insane amounts of fear and excitement and dreaming and planning and vomiting and growing and thinking you’re crazy and thinking you’re awesome and …show more content…
I learned that there is a time and a place to give and ask for feedback. Sometimes people will give you negative feedback in an emotional manner and that if you respond in an equally emotional manner, you and the person you are speaking with are communicating to parts of the brain that is not entirely receptive to reason. So not only is the person that is giving emotional feedback not entirely speaking through logical, if you are also in an emotional state when you are receiving the feedback, you will be receiving feedback in way that again does not make entire logical sense and may not be necessarily always true. It shows how easy it is to think that a small thing can have the most awful effect on something. I have been told by people who care about me that I tend to be completely enthusiastic in the beginning and ignited and excited, but then when the going got tough then I would wither away and become uninterested. I am grateful for this because this feedback is giving me valuable lessons to see what activities and subjects and life paths are simply not for me to