Charlie Brown Wasn’t a Loser…

If anyone asks me what my favorite cartoon character is, without a doubt, it’s Charlie Brown.
Think about it, how many Lucys do I know? How many times has she taken that damn football away from me before I kick it? How many damn times?
And don’t get me started on the little redhead girl? How many of those have I had?
My life right now is amazing. Don’t get it twisted, I love my life.
· My coaching business is starting to pick up and is about to blow up.
· I’m cultivating relationships on so many different levels.
· I’m writing as well as I have in my career, by a huge factor.
· I’m hosting a podcast with one of my favorite members of the human race.
· I’m recording a podcast on Friday with another one of my favorite humans.
· And I’ve lost 6 pounds in the past couple weeks.
And I can’t be with any of it. Because when I create really big things, bad things are a-brewin’.
Case in point:
I dreamed and worked for 30+ years on my book. I dreamed ever since I was a young boy to write and publish a book. Guess what happened before it even came out? Yeah, my dad dies.
At my old call center job that almost killed my soul, I must’ve gone up for seven or eight promotions. And I got turn down for each and every one of them. The one I finally got ended up being a disaster. But even then, I came down with a kidney stone the size of an almond that kept me out of action for a week and I never recovered my energy with the company.
I feel like I’m walking around with this doom cloud hanging over me. This cloud of impending disaster following me.
In other words, Pigpen and not Charlie Brown.
What to do? What to do?
I made a declaration at the start of the year that I was going to use this to set up the next 40 years of my life with power. And I’m doing a very good job at that.
But this doom cloud is getting old!
I’m proposing something that kind of scares me, but I think I need it.
I’m going to practice mindful detachment from the doom cloud. This won’t be an everyday thing, this may need to be an every hour thing.
This could be a major shift for me. And creating this shift can fully set up the rest of my life the way I want it to go. With the banging coaching practice, the New York Times bestselling books, the relationship with the rock star woman, the family, the life of my dreams.
This is the life I want. This is the life I deserve.
And you know something, when I get this life I could very well lose it. But am I going to be so scared of losing what I don’t yet have that I don’t even get what I want?
I’m done! The new life begins today.
I’m choosing to give faith to the process and I’m going to trust that things are going to work in my favor. And that sentence alone scares the holy living shit out of me.
Y’know something, Charlie Brown was beloved by his people. He was a leader. He was admired. And I think even Lucy liked him, she just hated herself.
I’m going to be okay. I’m going to be more than okay. I got this!
It ain’t nothin’ but a peanut.
