Overcoming A Critical Diagnosis | BE Moment

I’ve been quiet for a few weeks.

We were waiting for some medical test results back for someone I love and it triggered me to a really difficult place. I didn’t post on social media or record podcasts, because I was frozen in a place of not being able to move forward.

 

It was hard...not only waiting for the results but also the frustration of feeling like my life was on hold. And I’m SO glad that they came back well. But this pattern in my life has happened again and again, and I really dug deep to ask myself about how we are all receiving diagnosis or feedback of EVERYTHING constantly.

 

Cancer - 38.4% - someone I know, in my circle, will go through this again.

 

It’s not the diagnosis, but how we address it, that ultimately creates what happens out of it. We can choose whether we look at it as a crisis or challenge.  Are you allowing the diagnosis of where you are at in your business or in your life at to be your crisis or your challenge?

 

Are you saying “I can’t” or how can I?

How often are we self diagnosing? Or going to someone who isn’t credible to get an opinion?

 

You don’t have the time. You don’t have the resources. You’re not experienced enough. You don’t have the following. These aren’t a death sentence on your dreams, they are the diagnosis of the person who is giving you an opinion.

 

The reality? Most negative opinions come from people who haven’t had success in what you’re doing. It seems impossible for them because they haven’t done it, or haven’t done it successfully!

 

If you ask someone who has done the things you want (balancing kids + a career, creating their own business, enriching their relationship), they’ll tell you HOW they did it, the challenges they overcome and how you can do it. If you ask someone who hasn’t, they’ll give you every possible reason you can’t, because that’s all their brain + experience knows.

 

So recently, I was personally diagnosed with severe Mthfr. The Mother - f-er gene. Severe genetic mutation!!!  - 30% of people have it, 10% have a severe form.

 

Two thoughts - a crisis. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.

A challenge - what’s the best methylfolate. How can I detox my body, since it doesn’t do it the way it should?

Tips:

1. Stop seeing things as a critical diagnosis when they are really a challenge.
2. Get the professional opinion of someone who is an expert because they’ve done it!
3. Replace I can’t with how can I. That will CHANGE the way you look at any challenge.

 

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