There is No Limit

April 9th, 2015

"There is no limit"

I have to admit that I am having a difficult time deciding exactly where to start. A lot of people have that defining moment, the moment that they consider to be the spark that started the great fire that is now their success and happiness. Or they have the low point- the rock bottom that ricochetted them back into normalcy, eventually leading them to what they have become. I struggle to pin-point either of those moments in time when it comes to reflecting on my life journey. My defining moments have been sporadic, happening when I least expect them and usually when I am not looking to find them. At times, when I am at a crossing point and need to make a decision, a defining moment re-surfaces to me. Things people have said to me that didn't mean anything at the time pop back into my memory and save me.

"There is no limit"

This January, I began a second job as a beach bodies coach. This is not the subject of my first post so I will skirt around it, but warm up to it now because it has become a huge part of my life and will be the subject of many future posts, I am sure. The coach of my first challenge group (Ali, for future reference) asked me a question and a decision had to be made. She asked me "would you like to become a coach, like me?" She of course told me all of the benefits and was extraordinarily convincing. I wanted to. I wanted to very, very badly.

The problem was, I am a middle and high school music teacher and director of theater at the school. For about four months out of the year, I am so busy with putting a production together that I am barely a person. How in the world would I find time to be a coach?

"There is no limit"

Last year was my first year at this school. In order to ease me into the theater program, another teacher with many years of theater experience took on the role of head director with me as the assistant and musical director, with plans of transitioning me into becoming head director the following year (NOW). About half way through, I vented to her saying, "I am already so busy with teaching classes, putting on two concerts (I was K-12 last year), organizing choral festivals, and working on this production. For the first time, I feel like I have met my limit, and I am terrified to have to do even more next year! I don't know how you are doing all of this!"

Her response was "Your limit? Haven't you learned yet? There is no limit."

"There is no limit"

She spoke those words to me over a year ago, but there they were- like they had been waiting in the back of my brain all of this time just waiting to float back up to the front and help me to make this decision.

I said yes and started my coaching business in the midst of what I formerly referred to as "hell month". If there were a limit, I most definitely would have found it by now. Trust me, there is no limit.