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Aug 10, 2023Liked by ❤️ Jenny Blake

So much wisdom in this post, Jenny. Thank you for putting words to what I've felt 1 billion times 💛

Fellow softball player and multi-year coaches award winner here 🙋🏼‍♀️I was the 3rd baseman who got the yips (never knew this was a thing?!) And it was so bad that I wouldn't let my parents attend or watch the games! Ugh.

Now The Business Yips—that churn in my stomach when hitting publish on whatever it is (email, podcast, social post, website) every.single.time. What keeps me going is thinking about the ONE human it might help, and that tips the scale.

Thank you for your courage to talk about the hard things—you're the MVP in my book ;)

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Jenn, are you serious?! Can't believe you're a fellow softball player AND that you had this too!! Amazing they still kept you at third base — that's a badass position! I can only imagine how awesome you were when on fire . . . and for when the yips arrived, well, just happy to know neither of us is alone in that! 😭 I guess it taught us some sort of resilience at an early age?! I love that thinking about the ONE human you'll help gets you over the hump of hitting publish — you are MVP in my book too!! And coach's award . . . which is hilarious that we both actually became coaches ;-) Thank you so much for reading and leaving this comment today, I'm truly blown away by how much we have in common!

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Aug 10, 2023Liked by ❤️ Jenny Blake

Ha! Maybe the coaches award should be a pre-req for being a coach ;) It is so fun to learn about our commonalities and shared perspectives🌟

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May 19Liked by ❤️ Jenny Blake

I know this is an old post, but just wanted to say thank you for sharing your story with such honesty, it truly resonates. In my case, I never was a sports player, but I had similar feelings of disappointing others just by not being able to do things that came natural to most people (do a forward roll or crossing the monkey bars). Now as an adult I've been trying to make the pivot from employee to freelancer / business owner for a couple of years now and this feeling persists to the point I'm thinking of quitting before even starting. Your 49/51 ratio is a good way to start moving forward even with fear, doubt, awkwardness, you name it. Thank you 🧡

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Thank you so much for taking time to read and comment, Juanita! It means the world to me — and I know you can do this re: launching out on your own! If you can "make it" in this environment, everything truly will seem downhill after that — this is my hardest year in thirteen years of self-employment, so I commend you for sticking with it even through all the rapids of the early days!!

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Steve, thank you for such a thoughtful comment on this post!! I LOVE this insight: "In reviewing past successes, I had a fairly major insight recently: *none* of my successes have come from following someone else's path or metrics."

That would be such a good exercise for us all to do: make a list of our biggest wins (internal shifts and external moments) and acknowledge all the moments we went our own way. I love seeing how so many of yours came from building something yourself—that's always my favorite way out of "the yips" too :)

These two keys (being conscious about curating the environment and how you're keeping score) are such a helpful addition to this post!! Thank you again for engaging in such depth—it's really an honor :D

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