What if the reason you’re not getting what you want… is because you never truly asked?
As we step into September, there’s often a sense of new beginnings, the echo of a school year starting, the shift into a fresh season, and in business, the natural tendency to look towards the next few months.
We start counting down: only so many weeks until Christmas, only so much time left to hit our goals, to make things happen. But maybe before we jump straight into lists and targets, there’s something deeper we’re being invited to do.
Maybe it’s time for a moment of radical honesty.
When was the last time you had a moment of pure, unfiltered truth with yourself… and even with those around you?
Where are you holding yourself back in what you’re asking for, what you’re wanting, what you desire?
Are you limiting yourself because you’ve been told it’s unrealistic?
Because it feels greedy?
Because you don’t know how it could happen?
If we only ever ask for the safe version of what we want, then we shouldn’t be surprised when we are left feeling disappointed.
It’s like walking into a restaurant and asking for “ice cream” and then being disappointed when you’re served one scoop of vanilla. You got what you asked for – but not what you really wanted.
You wanted all out Ben & Jerrys Fish food with all the marshmallow, toffee sauce, chocolateness thrown in too… but that felt too extravagant and unlikely they’d have it… so you just said ice cream.
Next thing you know the table next to you has it, they did have it, it was possible… you just didn’t ask for it.
So here’s the invitation: as we move into this last stretch of the year, where can you get radically honest? What do you really want?
The thing you’ve not yet admitted out loud?
Because the only limits that exist are the ones we place on ourselves.
Say it, speak it out loud, what is it you truly want?
Katy x
