Let's talk about how I got my life together. Now, this may sound like a crazy thing to talk about because I've written books for the last 10 years on how to get different parts of your life together. I have been on this podcast for six years talking about your strategies to get your life together. My career of coaching is telling people how to get their life and their business together. What am I talking

about? Well, nobody's perfect.

Before we get started, I do want to tell you. I want to tell you a story. And I'm not sure if I

told this story here. I know I've talked about it in one of the books, but when I was the most burnout in my whole life, it's January of 2021. The pandemic is still raging. No one knows exactly what's going on there. Everyone's still kind of crazy from staying home or forced to stay home or just

life being upside down. As you know, my husband battles with a pretty serious chronic illness. He wasn't

doing well, which isn't unusual. But two of my boys had really hit rock bottom with their battle against

migraines. Both of them spent a couple of months in their room. They were in so

much pain. I write about this phase in Remaining You while Raising Them, and it was so difficult for me to

read the audiobook that I had to have a therapist help me practice to be able to read that story.

If you listen to the audiobook of remaining you while

raising them, you will hear me fighting back tears as I just get through a couple of pages of text.

Super painful. I'm not going to rehash it right now. But I wanted to paint the picture really

quickly of a time in my life when I was burnout, when I was fried to a crisp,

and I didn't know what to do next. I had lost all excitement for life, excitement for work.

I just felt like I didn't have anything else to give. And one day, I was in my office praying,

and I said, Lord, just tell me, what do you want me to do? Help me. And let me preface this by saying 99.999% of the time when I ask for a word from the Lord like this, he does not speak to my spirit clearly. I tell these stories freely, but I don't want to set the expectation that I'm always hearing anything. Okay, I just, I want to preface this story with this.

So I'm as saying, help me. What do you want me to do? And here's the thing. On this day,

in this moment, he was so gracious. And in my spirit, I heard clear as day the words, get help.

And you know how sometimes when he gives you a word in your spirit, it will just

illuminate the context magically and you'll know what he's talking about. Like when you couldn't

even put it into words, you just, you know in your spirit what he's talking about. I knew that it

was time for me to hire my business coach again. I had forgotten the one truth that you will always go further in your

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