Hey guys, welcome to your Sunday pep talk, a little something to get you going as you start the new week or empower you wherever this finds you today.

Our conversation is going to be inspired by a poster that I saw, actually, and it was way too harsh to be the title of this episode, but the power that it brought,

I thought was so profound.

It deserved a moment.

The poster said, and I'm going to bleep it myself, F your feelings, stick to the plan.

F your feelings, stick to the plan. And that is so harsh and so

hardcore. And also, that can be a really helpful mantra. Allow me to explain. Because today's pep talk

is for the version of you that gets knocked off track by your emotions.

Now, I know not everybody is like me.

Not everybody is deep inside of paramenopause and feels like they are constantly treading

water in an emotional soup.

But I do think that many of us make decisions based on how we feel, not what is best. We don't do

that because we're weak. We don't do that because we're overly dramatic. We do it because we're

human. But here's the truth. While feelings are real, they are not facts.

You can feel like you're not good enough.

You can feel like it's not going to work.

You can feel like quitting or hiding or skipping the thing you said you were due or ghosting the appointment

or numbing out. But just because you feel like doing those things doesn't mean you should. F, your

feelings stick to the plan. It's so hardcore. But the message underneath, even if that tone is too intense,

the message underneath, there's something to that. Sometimes your emotions are going to try and run

the show. And that's when your higher self needs to step in. See, I think it's typically the higher, more evolved version

of ourself who made the plan in the first place. That's a version of you that sat down at the

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