I’ve always been able to hear a shrunken desire in someone’s voice 💖 You can hear a person hedging before they’ve even finished the sentence, and it turns up in the first ten seconds every single time.

That’s exactly why I knew what was happening the second it came out of my own mouth!

I was on a call with Amy Scher, a beloved friend and an incredible author (she’s also the reason I’m published today 😍)

We were talking about my first book, Manifest Anything You Want. I had a plan mapped out already and I felt so sure about it – I was going to self-publish.

Amy asked why I wasn’t trying traditional publishing.  

Before I’d finished hearing the question, I was already answering it – something about how competitive publishing is, and how book deals go to people with much bigger followings and social platforms than mine.

Underneath my words, the message was simple: people who get book deals are other people.

I’d said all of it before I’d thought about any of it, which is the giveaway I know so well 😅

That answer came out fully formed, based on a decision I’d made about myself so long ago that I’d stopped noticing it was there!

Amy didn’t argue with me (this is exactly why everyone needs an Amy in their corner ❤️).

She knows what makes a book proposal irresistible to publishers, and she could see what I couldn’t see from where I was standing. She simply asked me to try, so I did.

What happened next changed my life.

I ended up with one of the top book agents in the business followed by a book deal with Llewellyn – the world’s oldest and largest independent publisher of mind, body, spirit books 🥳

I hadn’t become a different person – the only thing that changed was the size of what I let myself ask for 💖

The truth is the Universe isn’t running a background check on us 😄

There’s no committee somewhere reviewing your credentials and deciding whether you’ve earned the bigger version of what you want.

We do that part ourselves. We cross our own names off the guest list long before anybody has had the chance to send out invitations.

The small ask feels like humility from the inside but what it actually does is answer the question for the Universe before the Universe has had a chance to answer it for you.

I want to be clear about something here, because I know this can be a complicated topic.

If asking for something big makes you nervous, that makes complete sense to me – wanting big things has cost some of us before, and we don’t forget it.

You don’t have to feel confident to make the bigger ask. You can be completely unsure of yourself and ask the Universe anyway ✨

Here’s my invitation for you this week…

Take 1 Healing Breath of Brilliance (please see below on how to do this). 

Then take the desire you’ve been shrinking down to a reasonable size, and say the full-size version out loud 😄

Notice what happens in your energy when the full-size version gets to stay full-size.

As for that self-publishing plan of mine? It was a good plan and I’d have been proud of it. I’m just so glad Amy asked me a bigger question 💖

So how about you… what’s the full-size version of something you want?

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