You don't need to believe in yourself to achieve your dreams

At first, anyway

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No matter what you’ve achieved in life by now, something much bigger is stirring beneath the surface.

You’re not expressing half of the magic, wisdom and power that’s inside of you.

And even though you know, deep down, what you’re capable of, you don’t always believe you can do it.

That’s okay.

That’s normal.

You don’t have to believe in yourself — at first.

I didn’t.

For most of my early-adult life I was depressed, carrying old trauma, starting things and quitting. I felt like I had so much to give, and wanted desperately to give it, but the voices in my head always said it was pointless.

When my first blog posts (on Blogspot or whatever people used in the olden days) got crickets, I couldn’t see how anyone would ever find me. Instead of getting curious about how to achieve that goal, I gave up.

It’s strange, how one can feel simultaneously full of delusional self-confidence and yet also feel like a total loser who God has forgotten.

But one day, I grew tired of quitting, tired of living a life that didn’t reflect what I knew was inside of me, and decided to commit.

In that moment, I chose something new.

Before self-belief comes blind faith.

I picked up the idea of blind faith from some Buddhist teacher in a long-forgotten book, but the idea changed my life, and helped me build a business around my soul’s gifts.

So often, high-achieving women like us wait to have proof that our real dreams are possible before pursuing them.

But proof takes time.

Proof requires staying committed long enough to see results.

And the problem with developing self-belief before you have proof…

Is that you’re not yet the version of you capable of achieving the goal.

If you’re someone who hesitates.

Someone who breaks promises to herself.

Someone who doesn’t yet have certain skills — 

That version of you doesn’t command belief.

But that’s not who you are at the core.

At the core, you’re so much more.

Self-belief isn’t about lying to yourself.
It’s about seeing your potential, and devoting yourself to develop it.

Your potential is like a Polaroid. A very specific image impressed upon your soul.

At the core, you know who you’re meant to be, what you’re meant to create, and how to feel into the path forward.

You feel it through your intuition and emotions, telling you, “yes this way.” Or “no, not that way.”

But you don’t always listen. Not just because you don’t believe. But because you don’t have faith in what you feel.

Your faith is in what’s fully developed, the things you can see, and not the vision that offers so much more.

The dissatisfaction you feel, the longing for more…

That’s the sacred call from your visionary soul to create the work you were born to create.

What stops us from the blind faith required to release our soul’s true work, is past painful experiences, combined with limiting beliefs from our families and society.

When we try to express what’s inside of us, give shape to the light of our souls, all we can connect to is painful emotions or negative thoughts doubting our potential —

But those aren’t the voices of our soul.

Those are the voices of our conditioning.

That’s exactly why blind faith matters. It becomes your compass when your thoughts are fearful, or your heart is full of pain.

Blind faith says, “this moment might not resemble the vision inside of me, but I know that if I keep going, everything will become clear. Everything will make sense. This is part of the process.”

With blind faith, that’s exactly what happens.

You process these thoughts and feelings, because you know they’re only coming up to be released.

They’re only coming up because those are things in the way of the life, business or creative vision you’re meant to build.

And once that release occurs — which is how I help my clients and members — that’s the exact moment your next-level vision or one-of-a-kind creative work comes clear into sight.

Another layer we must navigate, that blocks us from blind faith, is primal, survival-related fears.

Fears of how expressing our full, unadulterated selves, will disrupt our lives. Affect our relationships. Leave us cast out, alone to die, because we weren’t willing to sacrifice our souls to fit in.

This is part of the process of individuation, and why healing is such an important part of monetizing your soul’s gifts.

Attachment to receiving security, validation, love and approval from others will stop you from living your purpose.

Attachments stop you from having faith because you have a stronger desire to fit in rather than be who you really are.

You can’t fulfill your potential when the pain of being an outcast scares you more than the pain of not living the life you were born for.

The pain of dying only to realize you didn’t live the life you actually wanted, because you clung to the illusion of being loved. You’re not really loved if you’re valued for your false self.

Your soul isn’t scared of pain.

One, because pain is part of the process of growth. The death before the birth.

And two, your soul knows the plan. You don’t. But that’s why you need blind faith.

Believing in your vision doesn’t require belief in your SELF.

It requires belief in GOD (or whatever your spiritual understanding), and faith that you were perfectly made to bring the vision inside of you to life.

Faith is bigger than belief.

Faith allows you to plant seeds before having proof enough rain will fall for them to them grow.

As proof builds, belief strengthens. If proof wanes, faith persists.

Proof isn’t possible without a foundation of faith.

When you ignite blind faith, you’re acknowledging the power of your potential, and unseen forces.

You’re saying — 

I might not be that person right now, but I believe there’s more inside of me than I can see.

I might not know how to achieve my goals, but the fire of blind faith will light my way.

I might have given up in the past when things got hard or I didn’t feel like it, but I believe in this new dream so much that I’m willing to become the version of myself who persists.

Your smaller self will never get you where you want to go because no matter how evolved your smaller self is, it’s still infinitesimal compared to your higher self.

You can’t know where it goes.

And unless you decide to have blind faith, you never will.

That’s a decision you make daily.

Ask, every day:

How can I bring more of my soul forward?

What else can I let go of, to receive more clarity or courage?

How can I live in such a way that my potential develops inevitably?

This is the work we’ll do in my upcoming mastermind for creative and spiritual entrepreneurs who want to clarify their calling and turn their soul’s gifts into next-level income.

It’s called Gifted.

This is my soul’s true work. The work of helping high-achieving women release the emotional and mindset blocks covering the light of their souls, so they can release one-of-a-kind creative works, build legendary businesses or brands, and become the forces of nature they were always meant to be.

This is a 6-month mastermind with 12 live-recorded modules, and access to community for ongoing coaching and connection.

My special gift is X-ray vision that immediately sees to the root of all blocks.

If you’re ready to take your dream to the next level, join the waitlist for early-sign on savings and bonuses not available anywhere else.

Reply with questions! I can’t wait to guide your creative vision into reality!

And comment below — tell me about a time you chose faith, and what happened next.

All the love,

Suzanne