The Real Annie Sanchez
Stories, lessons & hope from your favorite life coach & business strategist
In April 2023 I went to the Vipassana Center in southern California for a 10-day silent meditation course.
On my 12-hour drive home, very much in a dreamy, psychedelic-like meditative state, I started crying while thinking about my sister and my mom, my grandma and myself as a kid.
My crying turned into deep sobbing.
Dear Words,
Why are you so hard to find when we need you most?
You're amazing at helping to express love, fear, frustration, excitement, concern, grief and so much more. You have a very important job which is why I'm here.
Basically everyone I know, work with, coach and observe lately is having the same challenge — conveying our complex, layered feelings and ideas. Literally finding words is the issue.
Some recent examples:
And my honest to goodness truth — I’m anxious A LOT of the time.
I heard someone who runs a multimillion dollar company say, "Entrepreneurship is the fastest and most challenging self-development journey anyone will ever go on."
Truth.
It's 2022 and I'm living in a dreamland, doing dream work with dream people while toggling between sobbing in a heap on the floor and busting out strategies all over the wall.
Like, if someone else was watching you move through your day like a movie — what would they say about you? What would they think? What would they feel? How would they describe you to a friend?
I’m in the middle of an ongoing conversation with someone about the words we choose to describe things.
Are the words you’re choosing conveying what you mean?
Are the sentences you string together telling the story you want to tell in the way you want to tell it?
Time is the strangest things... it feels like more than a few days ago that the inspiration struck me ️yet, that's all it's been.
I'm curious, have you spent time with what you've believed was possible and/or are dreaming into for 2023?
Don't get me wrong, it is 2022 — I don't want you to get caught up in the future.
There is no greater medicine for a future you dream of than to be here now.
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