Lessons from the Fog

When I stopped following advice and started listening to myself

You can’t outsource your knowing.

There were years I knew something had to change.
Not just what I was doing — but how I was living.
It started with mindset.
What mattered. What didn’t.
How to step off the mouse wheel I had built for myself.

So I read. A lot.
I watched the same inspirational videos over and over.
I remember sitting outside in Florida with a cup of coffee,
repeating the words I heard —
hoping if I said them enough, they’d finally feel true.

I also paid for many coaching programs.
Searching, endlessly, for my answer.

One coach told me,

“You know real estate — you should be a real estate coach.”

And I listened.
Even though deep down… I knew better.

I wasn’t convinced.
I wasn’t aligned.
But I kept going anyway.

Because I ignored the quiet truth I already knew.

And that choice — that silence — cost me.
It cost me time, energy, money… and trust in myself.

But it also taught me something no coach ever did:

✨ No one knows me better than me.

What I needed back then wasn’t a plan.
It was someone to ask:
“What do you want?”
“What’s whispering in your ear?”

Because following someone else’s map
just brought me back to the same question:

Is this really my path?

You can have support.
You can have guidance.
But at the end of the day — the path still has to feel like yours.

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📷 The image I’ve shared today was taken on one of those quiet walks when I finally started listening to myself again.

💬 What’s whispering in your ear right now?