🔥 Have you ever gotten asked a question and then think at first you got nothing. only to realize that there's so much that it all wants to come out all at the same time? 🔥 Recently, I was asked about a personal and or professional story that helped me stand where I am today. 🔥 It's a story of how I learned to become truly fully alive, eyes wide, nostrils, flaring, fully awake, expansive, and filled with a deep mental, physical, and emotional peace... and informed my entrepreneurial journey.
🔥 Have you ever gotten asked a question and then think at first you got nothing. only to realize that there's so much that it all wants to come out all at the same time?
🔥 Recently, I was asked about a personal and or professional story that helped me stand where I am today.
🔥 It's a story of how I learned to become truly fully alive, eyes wide, nostrils, flaring, fully awake, expansive, and filled with a deep mental, physical, and emotional peace... and informed my entrepreneurial journey.
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[00:00:00] Trina: Welcome back to the field guide to awesome [00:01:00] folks.
In my last episode, I spoke about emotional intelligence specifically on how to increase your EQ starting with a super simple 30-Second practice.
Highly successful entrepreneurial leaders tend to also have a higher than average EQ. So it's easy as busy visionary entrepreneurial leaders with many demands on your attention to get caught up in the busy-ness of business and to take your emotional intelligence for granted.
The problem happens when you are dealing with subtle stressors, like chronic tolerations and small frustrations. Or getting irritated at minor mistakes, whether made by you or someone on your team, a client or a vendor. Or Either dreading conversations or experiencing miscommunications or getting frustrated with team members for not delivering to your expectation. Or even noticing yourself [00:02:00] getting irritated at things you aren't usually irritated by. Then getting irritated at yourself for getting irritated in the first place. Or even noticing tiny mistakes or issues that slow your businesses. Momentum and give you that sinking exhaustion that has you girding your loins, ready to wade into fixing the things that should have been done right the first time. It's easy and common to have the thought of, well, that's the price of doing business. It doesn't have to feel that way though. Yes, mistakes and errors will happen.
And business will feel like work. And does require us to put in the effort. And we can't control anything outside of our own selves. But you don't have to feel like you're tolerating less than ideal and suffering through the process. There is a way to shift your own mental, emotional, and physical experience that can improve your results in your [00:03:00] business, get you better results from your team and give you a more fulfilling life as an entrepreneurial leader. I'm Sharing a simple 30-Second method. To increase your EQ to shift your mind, body and emotions so that you can start catching your mental, emotional, physical stress reaction either before it starts or before you get too deep into it.
If you missed it, make sure to go back and check it out.
but don't go yet, folks.
This week, I'm sharing a little story about how travel has transformed my entrepreneurial journey. As well as informed my resilience and self mastery coaching practice. I can't wait to share this with you. So stay tuned. It's coming up.
[00:03:42] Trina: Hey, Hey everybody. I'm going to share a personal story with you. Have you ever gotten asked a question and then think at first you got nothing only to realize that there's so much [00:04:00] that it all wants to come out all at the same time. Recently, I was asked about a personal and or professional story that helped me stand where I am today at first.
Yeah. Hi, drew a blank. There are so many moments. I remember that have formed me into who I am and inform me and drive my purpose. And I am overflowing with stories. So it's hard for me to pick out one single story, but one of the overarching stories of my life is my love of travel. Travel is for me, not just going on vacation, it's not a vacation.
It's not getting away from it all. It's not escaping from my day to day reality. To me travel is learning to be wherever I am. [00:05:00] It's immersing myself in being fully awake, aware, alive. It's learning that I'm safe wherever I am upon a re-entry quote, unquote, returning home to my normal life. I bring more and more of that into my daily experience.
I become more aware of my conditioned responses. Awareness increases the opportunity to choose how I want to show up differently when we're home. It's so easy to get lost in our default mode. Default mode is that state of being that is deep into autopilot and autopilot is grrreat for flying.
It's not so great for living a fulfilled and purposeful life. There was a day back in 1994, many moons ago. When I realized I'd been lost in my own personal autopilot, it felt like I was merely [00:06:00] surviving, traveling through a dark, foggy tunnel. When I looked backwards and looked forwards again, everything looked the same.
Gray washed out. No inspiration. I realized I didn't feel alive. It was at that moment, I knew something had to change and it had to be big. It had to be drastic. I hadn't heard the acronym BHAG yet, even though it was coined a couple of years earlier, but I had just had a glimpse of my first big, hairy, audacious goal.
I decided to backpack around great Britain for a couple of months. And this was way before I had access to the internet, mobile phones, digital cameras. All I had was a travel book called let's go great Britain, fabulous book, fabulous travel series. I planned for six months and I saved up enough to cover my [00:07:00] rent and car payments while I was gone.
And after buying my round trip ticket and my, Euro rail pass, I had $33 a day. I could spend on food, lodging and transportation. And at the time in pounds, it was 22 pounds a day. Not a lot of money. All while I planned and prepared, I told my family work mates and friends about what I was going to do. No one, one person, only one friend believed me.
No one else did family would laugh at me and tell me I wasn't going to go. That it was ridiculous. I remember looking at them with my head cocked to the side. Like a confused puppy and saying, don't you see every thing that I'm doing to get ready, look at all the things that I'm doing to prepare.
They continued to not believe [00:08:00] me up until the day I had to catch my flight from Boston to Heathrow. And I insisted that I needed a ride to the airport. My grandmother dropped me off at the bus station with a worried look and told me to give her a call.
If she needed to pick me up right back up, it was two months before I returned home and we saw each other again. It took a while years maybe before I understood what I was doing was so far beyond what those around me could imagine as possible that they couldn't see what was happening right in front of them.
And this was my first long-term solo travel experience. And I was hooked!. Again, and again, over the decades, I'd pack a bag, a small bag and travel for a month, two months or six months solo with a vague plan, my heart full of adventure, curiosity and [00:09:00] thrilled by the unknown. The more I flung myself into the unknown, the safer I'd feel I was building evidence that no matter what situation I was in, I'd be fine.
Whether it was exploring back alleys in Bangkok foraging for food and Hong Kong learning to live in Paris, Florence, Thailand, or Bali couch surfing in Singapore and Paris. I wouldn't even give up the hardships. I've had at least one cold or illness in each country. I've visited. I've defended myself from a pack of feral dogs and Costa Rica.
I had to brace worthy sprained ankles in Paris. I broke a tooth in Bali. Gosh, I thought that was a trip-ender. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. Only two instances of food poisoning. One of them was by eating the best Italian pizza from a Mexican restaurant in all of Southeast Asia, according to the sign [00:10:00] and thanks to the special ingredient food poisoning. I can now find a restroom wherever I go in the world.
I realized that I could choose my "hard". There will always be difficulties and hardships. Whether you stay in your comfort zone or you plot a path into the uncharted, choosing non-traditional paths can seem glamorous, fun, and exciting.
Some see leaving the traditional as giving up, taking the easier path. In actuality, forging your own path is also hard. If I had to choose between the "hard" of staying the same and the "hard" of growth, I choose growth. Every time I learned the less I carried the freer, I felt the more I let go of holding onto belongings or protective beliefs, because I might need them.
And allowed myself to release them and trust that whatever I needed would be there. My sense [00:11:00] of safety and freedom expanded. I learned that there are wonderful and amazing people everywhere. I learned to feel comfortable wherever I was. This kind of travel required me to open up my awareness. I learned to come out of myself and be very situationally aware.
I learned to turn off my autopilot and become more aware of my thoughts and my automatic reflexive responses. I learned I could choose how I felt. And that changed what I experienced each time I returned home transformed less afraid, more curious, my sense of adventure grew and I'm even more thrilled by the unknown.
I can still remember the first time I felt truly fully alive eyes, wide nostrils, flaring, fully awake, expansive, and filled with a deep mental, physical, and emotional peace. It felt like I was [00:12:00] flinging myself off a cliff with an almost painful joy, knowing that wherever I'd land would be awesome, truly awesome.
I wanted to feel that way as often as I could. So I embarked on the wildest trip of all entrepreneurship is perhaps the most profound journey anyone can undertake. The business side of things is essentially easy. You can find out how the, how to do anything online. The how to be part is the secret kicker.
We look up to those that consistently hit success after success and tend to think that it was easy for them, that they had a leg up that we didn't, that they didn't struggle. Their achievements seem so far beyond what we think we can accomplish. Sure. Some of these serial success makers had a leg up. And those that inspire me most have [00:13:00] started with nothing, either way, those that stay in the game and enjoy the process have had to transform themselves to become resilient, not just overcoming obstacles, but truly seeing obstacles as opportunities.
Entrepreneurship is a crash course in personal development and resilience. My podcast, isn't a travel journal, but it was inspired by my adventures. And the deep personal transformations I experienced life is an adventure. Entrepreneurship is a lifestyle of adventure on hyperdrive. Every weakness, every fear, every bit of self doubt is exposed.
The good thing is that once you see it, you can choose to accept it, decide how you want to be instead, and courageously traverse the space between as you embody your ideal self, then you get to do it again.
And again, it's a hell of a ride [00:14:00] and there's no one roadmap that holds you by the hand. Step-by-step that fits everyone. I use field guide in my show's name, because that's what we're all doing. Each for our own selves, we are creating our own personal field guide to awesome noting our vision and walking and running down our particular path, making fast decisions and when they work fantastic.
And when they don't give us what we expect. It's uncomfortable, but that's great too. Are unexpected results. Aren't failures, they're opportunities for us to grow. There are opportunities to see other paths. We take note of the results of our decisions. We ask other travelers on the road. What's ahead. We share our notes with those coming up from behind us and together we create a fuller, more informed experience.
We learn from our histories. We are all going someplace. We haven't been before [00:15:00] and we use both our experience and our vision of the future to inform ourselves because our point of power is in our present. So now it's your turn. I invite you to think back to a pivotal moment in your life that changed you fundamentally.
How did it change you? What became possible for you once you flipped that switch, what's your vision of your future and where in yourself do you need to expand your capacity to receive what your vision has in store for you? Remember your vision of your future is meant for you. You just need to expand your capacity to step into it.
[00:15:52] Trina: Thank you so much for listening. So far I've shared over 80 interviews with experts and [00:16:00] visionaries about their struggles. Their triumphs and what they've learned along the way. And there are more to come. I'll also be sharing more insights with you on how you can expand your capacity to receive the connection, alignment, freedom, clarity, and fulfillment that you desire.
On that note. Lies. We hate 'em, sometimes we love them. We get lied to all the time. And we all tell them. Next episode, I'll be sharing seven different perspectives of lying that we all experience at some point or another. I'll share how to recognize them as well as the worst type of lie that we need to recognize ASAP.
And stop it before it causes any more damage. Stay tuned for next week. You won't want to miss it.
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