For the most part, I’m an intrinsically motivated kinda gal. But I’ve come to realize that this is only true up to a point.

It’s taken me a while to understand it, but I now see that my energy for self-motivation in any given day (or season of my life) is finite, and that it’s much harder to access around new and scary things, especially when I’m already needing to be self-motivated around many other things in my day-to-day life.

Here’s an example:

Currently, I have a well established habit life around…

• Healthy eating
• Going to the gym
• Doing yoga
• Hiking
• Good sleep hygiene
• Writing these emails and social media posts each month
• Fueling my soulfire through regular singing, dancing, and ceremony
• Keeping my home and home office tidy
• Practicing Spanish
• Reading books + listening to podcasts
• Time-blocked deep work (for long-form writing + visioning)
• Checking in with my grown and mostly-grown kids
• Napping

That’s a lot of things that require intrinsic motivation! (Keep in mind that my kids are almost all grown.)

So, when I began experiencing gut stuff this past year (fun!) and it became clear that I was going to have to start an elimination diet to discover the source of my symptoms, I knew I was going to need some support.

Elimination diets are hard, and given everything else I was motivating myself to do every day, I didn’t have any motivational energy left to figure it out on my own.

So I hired a nutritionist (shout out to Lauren at Planting Roots Nutrition!) and six months later I’m feeling sooo much better.

Also this year, it became clear to me that I’d reached a business plateau. My team and I had exhausted our internal resources (and drive) for figuring out how to reach our next goals.

So I joined a kickass business coaching program specifically designed for people whose businesses are in a similar stage of growth to mine. Holy shit, I’m three months into this 15-month program and it’s transformed me as an entrepreneur already (huge thanks to Eleanor Beaton and the entire team at Safi Media)!

Time and time again throughout my life, when I’ve let go of the idea that I have to figure it all out myself and found or invested in the right support, my growth, healing, wellness, or business’s wellness have been taken to the next level.

There’s just only so much energy any of us have on any given day to motivate ourselves, and accountability is queen when it comes to doing new or extra hard things that we feel resistance around.

Can you relate? What is it that you could use support and accountability around at this point in your journey?

So done with hyper-individualism,