Magic Moments
Some delight in the competition
While others fear its spell,
For competition shows the leaders,
Those who do it well.
The draft of another runner can send you on your way
It can make you faster, smarter at your play.
Leading does not always mean the first at every bend,
Great leadership is the quality of how you finished in the end.
- Cheri Ruskus
Happy Monday {First Name},
This morning, as I write and watch the sun coming up over my garden, I am contemplating week four of five of the race topic - competition. And the message that seems clear to share is how we tend to compete with our own self so much of the time – expecting more from ourselves than anyone else.
I guess that’s a good thing, right? And how we take care of ourselves to be our best is important too. Allowing ourselves to have a healthy ego, listening to our inner critic only when necessary, and knowing that it is okay to put recharge time into our calendar. Now mine came totally because life unfolded in a way that I had not expected.
After I sent the send button on last week’s letter, I headed from the hotel in Wyoming where I had been staying to a place for the next 3 days that filled my heart and soul. There I was by myself at a beautiful cabin on a most beautiful lake doing my quarantine routine that had to happen because of my positive covid test.
The great part was that I felt just fine having been vaccinated. I knew that I was divinely given this time to write and work on my Courage Circle that I will be teaching and coaching to entrepreneurs in October. There I was writing about courage – the courage to create and keep going and not hold back.
Just me with no one else around me for most of my waking hours for 3 days. The time was incredibly productive, and I got so much written and thought through.
Then on the last day I decided to take a drive and head towards the mountains I had been admiring to the north of where I was staying. The tips of them were slightly visible over the hills that surrounded the lake. I was in a remote spot already, but I felt the need to explore some more for a couple of hours and see what those mountains were all about.
As I drove the road from my cabin on the lake, I found myself quickly climbing in elevation. The road went to a one lane road and I realized I had also lost cell service. I pulled over at a look out point and got this picture which doesn’t come close to depicting how beautiful it was.
For a moment I thought, well that was beautiful I should head back, feeling a bit squeamish about the unknown road I was on. But then something inside of me said, "Cheri you have been thinking and writing about courage, but you are stopping now because you are uneasy about where this road will take you." So, yes, I listened and pushed myself to keep going.
It was a beautiful drive with wildflowers, aspens, pines, no people and no map to tell me where I was. The road got incredibly dicey at times, and oh did I mentioned I have some fear around heights?
Then I came around a corner and the view before me, blew me away. In front of me was a clear unobstructed view of the Wind River Mountain Range in all its majestic glory. A mountain range I have wanted to see in person for many years and had tucked that fact away somewhere in the back of my mind.
The experience of knowing that I had sucked up my fear, and because of it had this reward was indescribable in so many ways. It charged me to my core. And will stay with me for a long time to come. Discovering that I had been looking at the tips of their peaks for days and not knowing that it was the Wind River Range from my vantage point on the lake was amazing. It left me with so much strength to continue exploring on the mountain and in my work when I returned to the cabin.
Heading into this week join me for Tenacity Tuesday @VictoryGirl on Instagram tomorrow with Liz Canavan one of our Grow Circle coaches. We will talk about the tenacity to head into this particular fall season and a new school year! With the easy breezy days of summer beginning to wrap up, how do we keep from letting overwhelm step in. We will be talking about this and more…
Without a doubt it takes courage to fully be with yourself and love the process. To drop the thought that you must be with someone else to be happy and create. While yes, being with other people is awesome in many ways don’t forget the magic moments you can have with no one else around. You can be your greatest competition to win this race!
To Your Success and Victories,
- Cheri
Cheri Ruskus, Small Business Mentor and Possibility Thinker
cheri@businessvictories.com • 303-652-1718 • @victorygirl
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