You know when you see the blue sky and sunshine after weeks of rain? That’s exactly how I felt this week.
I think I’m finally out of the schmozzle!
This week felt great. My mind no longer felt chaotic, and I’m beginning to see how this period over the last few weeks was life speaking to me very loudly, calling me forward to my future self.
Discomfort is part of the growth journey, and through the messy middle of the last few weeks, I’ve come out the other side with more clarity and commitment to the future I’m creating.
This week I engaged a graphic designer who I’ll be working with for most of the year to help me create a brand-new product. It’s something I’ve wanted to create for at least seven years, maybe longer.
Before I share what that is, I’ll explain how I’m approaching this year a little differently.
The "Have" List
I’ve written a Have List. It was formerly my Want List, which had already replaced my To-Do List on my whiteboard.
The Have List is all the experiences and things I seek to have in my life. Some are big dreams that could take years, and others are little dreams that could happen this year. When I read the list out loud, I say, I have… as a way of acknowledging, in the present moment, that I already have these things, even if they haven’t shown up yet.
I changed it from a Want List because wanting made me feel like I was always living in the gap. Changing it to a Have List helps me trick my brain into feeling what it would be like to already have these things or experiences in my life. It puts me in a gain mindset. It also acts as a filter to see if what’s on the list is truly aligned based on how it makes me feel.
One of the things on my Have List at the start of the year was: I have booked a Human Design retreat in Byron Bay.
The retreat I wanted to attend was $6,500, not including travel costs. It wasn’t a small investment in myself.
For a couple of weeks, I kept seeing it at the top of my Have List and started bargaining with the universe. I told myself I’d only book the retreat if I had evidence I would hit my revenue goal for the half-year. That felt like a reasonable approach and probably one most people would take, but deep down, I knew I was back in my old trap of seeking certainty before commitment. I also had this underlying feeling that I had to earn the right before I could allow myself to spend money on something purely for the joy of it.
I decided to embrace trusting rather than seeking certainty and booked the retreat by the end of January. The day after, I had $9K land in my business account. A payment from a new client who had just engaged me to work with them.
At first, it was hard to believe the synchronicity. I was skeptical, telling myself this happened to other people, not me. But the more I have embraced trust as my currency over the last month, the more I’m seeing this energetic value exchange play out in ways I can’t ignore.
Bringing a Long-Held Vision to Life
The new product I want to create this year is something I’ve talked about with friends for years. I never had the courage to do it because it didn’t make sense financially, and it wasn’t my area of capability. I had no idea how to make it happen.
Over the last year, and especially after reading Who Not How by Dr. Ben Hardy, I’ve seen the power of finding the right people to help me get where I want to go.
When I randomly shared with a friend that my Have List included creating my own branded journals and stationery and that I needed a graphic designer with specific skills, she knew exactly who to connect me with.
I had no expectation that this would be something for 2025. It had been on my Want List for years.
I thought this year’s focus was writing my next book, not creating a journal product.
But everything is pointing toward this becoming a reality. My inner transformation is leading me to become more of my creative self.
Becoming Whole
I’ve also noticed the people choosing to work with me on negotiation training want both outer negotiation strategies and inner negotiation strategies. I’m seeing how embracing all facets of myself is making my work even more potent.
My vision for my journals is to create tools that help people do the deep inquiry and self-reflection needed to discover their truest expression. To find the path that allows them to create the impact they feel they’re here to make.
I’m excited. I spent yesterday evening on Pinterest gathering creative ideas to share with my designer, and I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to bringing this project to life.
This is me playing full out. Being all of myself. Not putting myself in rigid boxes based on what others might expect from me as a negotiation consultant.
I’m blending all parts of my life into one. I’m making myself whole again, and it feels blooming delightful!
What About You?
Where are you holding yourself back because it doesn’t "make sense"?
What part of yourself do you need to fully embrace, even if it doesn't fit the expectations others have of you?
For me, creativity is the part I starved in my corporate career and even in my negotiation consulting business.
I spent years thinking I wouldn’t be taken seriously as a negotiation expert if I showed this side of me, my deeper, more philosophical, spiritual, and reflective self. The truth is, being all of me is what makes me excellent at negotiation because the biggest negotiations we ever have are the ones with ourselves.
I know that when I elevate my own impact, I create space for you to elevate yours too.
I also know that not everything we do will make perfect sense to everyone.
Me creating a journal product won’t make sense to people who only see me as a negotiation consultant. But I'm so much more than the work I do.
Being all of myself is what makes me excellent in front of my clients, my audience, and the people who truly resonate with my work. That’s what I’m continuing to invest in.
So I want to leave you with this:
What if you stopped making sense?
What if you let go of the need to justify the parts of you that feel the most true?
What if you trusted that all of you belongs, just as you are?
I’m heading to Byron Bay at the end of the month to immerse myself in my Human Design, and I know it will deepen everything I create from here.
But first, next week I’m heading to Perth for some much-needed rest and relaxation.
Because life isn’t something we have to figure out. It’s something we get to live.
Trust yourself.
The path is unfolding, even when you can’t see how.
Keep going and keep growing.
Love Glin x
P.S. Three wins from my week:
1. The Currency of Trust. After a month of trading in the currency of trust, I've seen clearly how powerful this shift has been, not just with financial investment decisions and revenue growth, but also in how I've been showing up for myself and with others. I'm trusting myself more deeply than ever, and this experiment has been so impactful that I'm embedding trust as my core practice and way of being moving forward.
2. Saying YES to Having What I Want. I still can't quite believe I'll soon be creating my own branded journal product. This project feels like it will shatter many lingering limiting beliefs. Once it comes to life, there’s simply no way I can continue to entertain old stories and nonsense about why I can't have the future I want.
3. Date Day. John and I took some time yesterday to soak in the view at Mapleton Falls and go for a walk in the national park. We followed it up with a fresh cream and jam doughnut from Kenilworth Bakery. Yum. Such a wholesome day.
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