I am more determined than ever to get fluent in Portuguese.
Our little dance studio is growing, and every woman there speaks Portuguese as their first or second language. The newest member doesn’t speak English at all, so practice recently pushed the limits of my megre vocabulary.
It would be easy to say my life is too busy.
I’m working with clients, making new connections, creating a one-year program with the amazing Jasmyne Des Biens, birthing the Pantheon community, collaborating on a project in Japan, promoting the DragonHeart Quest, writing daily emails, and dancing for hours every week.
Where do I find the time to fit in an hour a day to study Portuguese?!?!!
The good thing is that I know how to do it.
If there’s something I want to do, for real, and it’s important to me, I know how to make it inevitable.
It’s a little trick I’ve used many times to manufacture time when it seemed like it didn’t exist.
Five minutes.
Do it for five minutes, first thing in the morning.
Before work, before breakfast (and I do love to eat my breakfast!) and definitely before email. Even before my morning movement.
I know I’ll do all those other things. But studying Portuguese is new and somewhat uncomfortable.
By setting a five minute minimum, I’m setting a low bar for success. With an hour goal, I usually stay on task the whole time once I’m there. And then, my study for the day is done.
It’s a solid strategy.
That’s how you manufacture time.
You don’t wait for space to appear. You claim it.
Will my trick work for you, too?
Maybe. But I know this for a fact.
If you really want to do something – like, really, really – you will find a way.
I feel the same way about the DragonHeart Quest.
I am determined to get 10,000 people to take the Quest by April 12th. Or give everything I’ve got to the effort.
Because creating and sharing from joy changes the world.
Already, I have two in-person DragonHeart pods forming. Weekly online gatherings scheduled to take the Quest together.
If you’ve been wanting to create…
If you’ve been wanting to share…
If you’ve been wanting to stop overthinking and start expressing…
Make it inevitable.
Join us.
I’m hosting weekly online DragonPods where we gather for 30 minutes, create a 10-minute offering, and support each other in sharing it with the world.
Thursdays:
7am EST / 12pm GMT
or
11:30am EST / 4:30pm GMT
From now until April.
Add a DragonPod gathering to your calendar here.
Yours in love and play,
Steph 🐲❤️🔥
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