Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.<\/em><\/p>\n~Edgar Allan Poe, \u201cThe Raven\u201d<\/p>\n
October is always busy, and although every year I say that I refuse to double and triple book my schedule, I always do. This year has been no exception.And I leave myself exhausted and emotional. Pinholes into my energy are poked and I am prone to illness and an overall sad feeling, mainly from sleep deprivation. We all have done it. And many of us still do it despite knowing better.<\/p>\n
Last Thursday I began to see the results of October. I sat in the Holly Township Library awaiting to give a lecture. It was an area that I had never visited before, and wondered if anybody would even show up to hear my talk. I posted my insecurities on Facebook and seconds after the crowd slowly rolled in \u2013 until it was standing room only.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do this every single time!\u201d Chuck smirked as he drove us home.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo what?\u201d I innocently replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou doubt yourself. And ironically you are the one inspiring others. How does that work?\u201d he asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n
I laughed. He was telling the half-truth. I wasn\u2019t always insecure, but the last couple months had been filled with obstacles and tests. It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t believe, because I did and I do \u2013 but \u2013 well I had an encounter with someone who informed me that \u00a0I couldn\u2019t succeed and if I tried they would try and stop me at all cost. I suppose that voice planted into my subconscious was making me doubt. And then there is the way that I was raised. Success equated to ego and ego was bad. I was still trying to fight that false belief. Mix in lack of sleep and it was a prime recipe for\u00a0scaredy cat.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t get home until after 11 p.m. that night, only to have to get up at 5 a.m. and head out to do a motivational speaking event with a sprinkle of readings. The event was held at a large expo center that was currently housing several meetings and conferences besides for the one I was attending. One of those conferences, directly across the hall from where I was sitting with a sign that largely said \u2013 Kristy Robinett \u2013 Psychic Medium & Life Coach, was a conference hosted by Governor Snyder, the Michigan Cyber Summit 2013. Politicians, secret service, military and police were everywhere and many of them commented on me and my sign. Chuck sat nearby and I could feel his protective energy grow larger as my scaredy cat began to come out. I felt the urge to run away and avoided eye contact with those snickering and pointing at me as if I was the bearded lady at the carnival. I could also hear them saying in their head \u2013 \u201cWhat a phony!\u201d and just as I was about to look for an espape of some sort, two FBI agents came up to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cPsychic Medium, huh?\u201d the one said and laughed.<\/p>\n
I politely smiled and nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cProve it,\u201d the other said to me.<\/p>\n
Normally I would smile, shake my head and say \u2018no thanks\u2019, but something told me to not do that. Namely his mom.<\/p>\n
Next to the\u00a0prove it\u00a0agent, was petite lady with short blonde hair. Her face was gentle and loving and she asked me to give him a message.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mom is right beside you. She says she is sorry that she passed last year when you were on the cruise with your wife and daughter. She has your brother with her too. She asks that you call dad every so often. He isn\u2019t the easiest to get along with, but he does love you and he does miss you \u2013 and you are just like him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned ghost white and started to tear up. He looked over at his friend who just stood there staring at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere isn\u2019t any way you could have known any of that. Damn!\u201d<\/p>\n
He grabbed my business card off of the table, wiped his wet eyes with the back of his hand, and walked in to the bathroom without a goodbye. His friend just followed without a word.<\/p>\n
I took a deep breathe and then looked for that inner scaredy cat, but she wasn\u2019t there. I heard my guide say to me, \u201cYou are not the image that they think you, you are the image you create for you.\u201d And isn\u2019t that the truth?<\/p>\n
Our fears and insecurities are based on the possibility, not the actuality. It is time to kick your inner scaredy cat aside! You are better than you see yourself. You are more gifted than you treat yourself. And so honor yourself the way you want others to honor you.\u00a0Don\u2019t be a scaredy cat.<\/p>\n
You won\u2019t always get the opportunity to peer into your own demons, nor will you want to. You may run away and hide, but don\u2019t hide for too long because it is then that you begin to lose yourself.<\/p>\n
5 Things to Scare the Scaredy Cat Away<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Take a\u00a0step\u00a0<\/strong>towards what scares you. It is okay if you feel threatened at first. But don\u2019t allow the fear of the moment to jade your intuition.<\/p>\n2.\u00a0Envision<\/strong>\u00a0what you want (and not what you don\u2019t want) and like a movie, see how you want it to be played out.<\/p>\n3.\u00a0Write<\/strong>\u00a0your story the way that you want it go. Actually get out a paper and pen out and write it. Write out the things that scaer you and really look at it. You will probably see that it isn\u2019t as scary as you think.<\/p>\n4. Stay\u00a0productive.<\/strong> The more time you have time to over-think, the more time you have to create false ghosts. Have a go-to creative project \u2013 knit, crochet, paint, write, cook, bake, read, etc.<\/p>\n5.\u00a0Believe<\/strong>. Even if you don\u2019t feel that you have anything to believe, you sometimes have to fake it till you become it.<\/p>\nFear holds us all back from our own success in all aspects of our life. Isn\u2019t it time to kick the scaredy cat out?<\/p>\n
Believe,<\/p>\n
Kristy Robinett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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