Procrastination is the biggest expense

I’ve spent the last few instalments of my blog expanding on the conversation I had with Sarah Reilly. You can find her at www.SarahReillyCoaching.com; she posts a lot of content; you could dig around her site for days and continue to be inspired.

Sarah and I both believe that, as coaches and entrepreneurs, its essential to continue to invest in mentorship on our own. I believe this to be true because you never really see your blind spots. In Sarah’s words…

This is one of the primary benefits of coaching, is not just that we will help get you to your dreams because we can, and it’s awesome. But once you get there, and your nervous system wigs out, then there has to be someone around for you to calibrate to.

You have to be able to bring the crazy ideas and the crazy thoughts and all the rest of it to someone who says yes, this is a 100% fine, you’re fine. I’ve been through it, and this is what I want you to do. These are tools for managing and manipulating your nervous system in such a way that it is playing on your team rather than just going completely rogue and running off into the desert without you.

You don’t have to suffer through this and you certainly, and here’s the kicker, you do not have to let the self-sabotage pattern win. It’s completely unnecessary. Getting a coach and making sure that your business grows exponentially, or that your life gets exponentially better, or making a little bit of progress then sabotaging the lot and costing yourself all of that stuff and all of the time you put into it.

Procrastination is the biggest expense in anyone’s life, because the opportunity cost of what you could’ve done with that month runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, within about 90 days or less.

The big question I had for Sarah because this is something so important to me, was, what does life amplified mean to you?

Let’s finish our conversation with Sarah with her final thoughts…

Life amplified is what life is supposed to be like. Because I think the matrix right now requires that we exist and that we’re productive. I think what most people think of life is not inherently life amplified. I think it’s the drone state. So life amplified is where you step outside of the factory for a second, where you climb off the hamster wheel, and you say okay, amazing countries, amazing vistas, amazing opportunities, amazing people. I’ve only got 80 years on this planet if I’m lucky, touch wood, and I want to have the full human experience. How do I get to Aruba? How do I meet that person? How do I publish this book? How do I learn Italian? How do I sample French food? How do I meet the turtles in the Galapagos? How do I see the toucans? How do I have the human experience? How quickly can I get there? How quickly can I see it? How much can I see? What can I do?

I think for me life amplified is what living was always supposed to be. And what we’ve sort of forgot about because of all the have-to’s. I have to get to work, and I have to pay that bill, I have to get that sorted, I have to please that person, I have to not say that around that person. I have to call that person.

A life amplified is everything that sits outside of the have-to’s.

Thank you to Sarah for sharing her thoughts with us. Remember to follow Sarah, and keep your comments and emails coming, I read them all!

As always, it is my greatest honor and privilege to serve you. Thanks for spending a few minutes with me this week. And in the meantime, turn down the volume on your negativity, turn up the volume on your purpose, so you can live life amplified.