The Accomplishment That Passes Right Through You

Julie Holly: Have you ever asked yourself, "Why do I move on so quickly after accomplishing something I worked hard for?" Today, we'll look at what makes it feel safer to keep going even when things went well. Before we wrap, we'll walk the Identity-Level Recalibration pathway together, and we'll give one moment from your own life a little time to register.

Julie Holly: Welcome back, or welcome, to The Recalibration, where high-capacity humans realign who they are so they can move from pressure and performance into peace, presence, and clarity without losing their edge, that God-given gift of ambition, adrenaline, and excitement. I'm Julie Holly, researcher, coach, and founder of the Identity-Level Recalibration Pathway.

Julie Holly: Before we go further, there are two things I wanna share with you. First of all, I wanna invite you into a training I'm offering next Tuesday afternoon. It'll be offered from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Pacific time. It'll be 60 minutes. We start on time, we end on time. And during that training, we are going to talk about how do you change without starting over.

Julie Holly: So many of you are accomplished. You've had decades of experience behind you, and you are looking maybe to retire, but not retire in the traditional sense. Or maybe you're looking to transition a career and use your skills, talents, and ability in a new way just to bring some excitement. Maybe you are in your 30s and you are ready to make your first transition like that, and you're thinking, "I don't wanna start over from scratch. I don't wanna go back to the beginning of my 20s. But how do I actually do this?"

Julie Holly: That's what we're gonna be talking about during this training. How do you change without starting over? You have amazing things contained within you. You have amazing experiences, and so we're gonna tap into that, and we're going to do a live coaching session.

Julie Holly: With the last training, there were over 125 people registered for that training on LinkedIn, and I'm gonna be honest and let you know behind the scenes, not everyone attended live. There was a room of nine, 10 of us actually live, and those people that were there felt it. They were able to engage. I was able to coach in real time and provide that micro shift, that micro recalibration in the moment.

Julie Holly: So if you are on the fence and you're thinking, I wanna see what it's like to work with Julie. I'd like some support on this exact topic, how do I change without starting over? Then make sure you register for that event. If you head to julieholly.com, at the very top of the website, you will see a link you can click to register for that event.

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Julie Holly: Because I don't know about you, but some of my favorite podcasts I discover because I look at podcasts that I may also enjoy based upon what I'm listening to. This just helps those type of things surface for other listeners who are going to benefit from this content. Thank you so much for your support. Let's dive in.

Julie Holly: I opened with a question similar to this: Why do I move on so quickly after accomplishing something I worked hard for? The truth is, moving on can feel so much more familiar than pausing, especially when solving the next problem is something you enjoy and even a way you've learned to feel secure. You can care deeply about what you've accomplished and still have very little practice letting it sink in.

Julie Holly: There were a couple of years where I was traveling, I was delivering keynote presentations, doing breakout rooms, and having so much fun. And so there was a sequence, right? I would finish this talk that I've spent a lot of time preparing and practicing and then delivering and then getting off stage.

Julie Holly: When you get off the stage, where you walk, you generally find people right away. And so there isn't a buffer. There isn't a little window break, I mean, maybe 30 seconds where you have a little break between being on stage and being around other humans. And when you get around those humans, it keeps that high, it keeps it elevated, and it's so much fun.

Julie Holly: And then you walk out of that conference room, and you're around lots of people, lots of new ideas, lots of opportunities, and everything just propels itself. I never created or found a space to allow myself to simply soak in the moment, let it settle, and then return, return to normal activity. And it became the familiar pattern, a pattern well worn in my life where I was just looking for the next opportunity, looking, how can I stay in this elevated state?

Julie Holly: Because that was the familiar state that I had. What I found as I was reflecting, though, is that I wasn't always like this. And this may resonate for you. You may always have been a high achiever, high performer, or you may be like me, where you had a particular moment where that switch got flipped on. And once it was flipped on, I did not know how to turn it off.

Julie Holly: I've only learned how to downshift within the last couple of years, and I am still practicing that. That will probably be part of my lifetime practice. What I noticed as I was reflecting in preparation for this episode is that through elementary school, through middle school, through high school, I felt safer being in the average zone.

Julie Holly: Average felt safe. And let me piece that apart for a moment. If you are excelling in your academics in school or you're excelling in a sport, then people are going to look at you. One of my best friends was valedictorian in middle and high school, and everyone knew, oh, she's the smart one.

Julie Holly: And so she had this label on her, and there was this expectation that she knew and that she could perform academically. And so that felt a little unsafe to me. And then on the other spectrum, if you were not performing, okay, you're getting pulled out, you're having remediation, and so there's this different attention that is put on you.

Julie Holly: So there's a level of that that feels unsafe. It's interesting for me as I look at both ends of those spectrums compared to average, I felt shame on either side. If I tipped the scales and I was on the brighter side or the athletic side of being really successful, there would be pressure. I could disappoint people.

Julie Holly: If I disappoint people, I'm going to feel shame, and if I feel that shame, I'm going to lose my sense of belonging. And so you can hear that spiral. The same shame existed for me as I modeled it out on the other side as well. Well, I'm underperforming, and so there's shame associated with that, embarrassment, humiliation.

Julie Holly: I think that's really interesting when we start piecing apart what happens when we go to either side of the spectrum to say there is a reason why many people want to be average, why they want to be in the middle. Nobody is looking to you for anything magical. The expectations for you are pretty nominal.

Julie Holly: It's just, hey, that person, they show up, they get things done. They're good at what they do. They're dependable. You can count on them, but you're not counting on them on either side of the spectrum. You're not counting on that person to either lift everyone up or create a situation where maybe everyone is waiting.

Julie Holly: And I hesitate to say dragging everyone down because that feels off. But in our minds, particularly as kids, that is how that gets labeled. So we're gonna just be real about that. It's a little embarrassing, but I remember running track freshman year of high school for the very first time.

Julie Holly: I was not a runner whatsoever prior to that, and I was doing sprints, the 100, the 200. I was also doing those with hurdles. And I remember the tension, the anxiety, everything that I would feel culminate before the race would begin, and I would want to go all out, and yet I would shut down, and I would not allow myself to go all out, to say, "I am going to put everything I have out here on the track today."

Julie Holly: And so I held myself back, and I kept myself average. It's interesting because there are stories that we tell ourselves when we are in moments like that. And when we look back into those formative years of middle school, high school, college, we're really able to access some interesting information about who we are and how we show up to the world.

Julie Holly: In high school, I believed that grades mattered, and so I did apply myself. I took accelerated classes, extra math classes that I never needed to take, and I felt so free when I entered into college. I thought, "Oh my goodness, the only thing that matters with college is simply getting the degree, and if I have the degree, then that's all I need. Nobody is ever going to care about my grades in college."

Julie Holly: But when I realized that God was calling me to step into education, to leave the business program behind, to step into the education program, everything changed. All of a sudden, my GPA actually mattered. And so the days that I spent, air quote, if you're watching on YouTube, "studying" while in the middle of the river in Yosemite Valley, suddenly the classes that I had not attended because attendance, did that even matter?

Julie Holly: They don't even take attendance. I can study on my own. I am smart. I am capable. I can go and I can learn this on my own, come back, take the test, write the papers. I'm fine. And so I spent a lot of time my freshman year of college in Yosemite Valley rock climbing, bouldering, just enjoying nature and the wilderness, and not enough time applying myself to my academics.

Julie Holly: When I wanted to step into the education program, all of a sudden that was a big deal. There was a GPA requirement to apply to the program, and I did not meet that GPA requirement. And what was interesting is that I had a very interesting experience where it was very clear to me, not a voice from heaven, but just a very clear knowing that was so much greater than me, that I was supposed to go into the education space versus a business space.

Julie Holly: I've talked about it on past episodes. I went home. I was on my lunch break. I dropped all of my business classes and got into the classes I needed to step into the education program. That's a whole different podcast episode. I've talked about it before, but super cool the way God shows up and the way God works.

Julie Holly: In that moment when I wanted to step into pursuing what God was inviting me into, and I might not be able to because of my choices, that was a really hard moment. That moment began with shame and embarrassment and frustration with myself. And amazingly, I was able to shift from that shame and embarrassment into sorrow and grief.

Julie Holly: I was so sad that I knew where God was calling me and that I may have sabotaged, that that might not be a possibility because of the choices that I'd made. And you may have felt that way at times also. Maybe you have that feeling of, "I didn't apply myself." Maybe you did something unscrupulous, and so you think it's disqualifying you from what God wants in your life.

Julie Holly: Like, "Well, God can't use me because, well, you know what? I burned the bridge with my previous employer," or, "I dropped the ball on the projects that I was supposed to execute on." You might have other things. Maybe you did something that was questionable in your business place or in your marriage or fill in the blank, and you think, "There's no way that God can use me." And so we have that choice, just like I did, where we can stay in those lower feelings, or we can shift into that sorrow, into that grieving process, and that grieving process is more vertically aligned. That grieving process can take place with God. And that's what happened with me.

Julie Holly: I was talking to God about it. I was apologetic. I was asking God to forgive me for not stewarding my time and my brainpower well. For me, that was a moment that absolutely flipped the switch. From that point on, I was overcompensating. I was aggressive with my academics. I was taking 18 to 24 units every single semester and making the dean's list while doing that.

Julie Holly: And let me just tell you, these were not fluff classes. I wasn't taking basket weaving or something like that. These were real classes, chemistry, mathematics, things that required so much brainpower from me. And at the end of that, I was able to finish a five-year program in four years. I had graduated with honors, and I learned to stay in that sympathetic state. I learned to stay in that zone of achieving and accomplishing. I did not know how to step out of it.

Julie Holly: So when I finished college, two weeks later, I got married, and two months after that, I began my career in education. What I now recognize is that that was a birthplace for my love of struggle. I had become very deeply familiar with struggle.

Julie Holly: So let me tie the world that I opened with, the keynote presentation and going off stage and just staying in that elevated state, and this point in college where the switch was flipped. And I was in that state for two and a half decades. What I learned through that experience in college that stayed with me for all those decades is that I found fun, delight, pleasure, excitement, joy in the process of the puzzle. I kinda looked at it like an adult's Rubik's Cube. It's like, "Okay, well, what classes do I need? How do I get into those classes? How do I pass those classes?"

Julie Holly: And then all of that just transitioned into every area of life. The puzzle of life and the reward. Oh my gosh, right? The reward of it, to be invited into opportunities. So that's the reward that comes later down the road for me with being in these environments where people viewed me, rightly so, as someone who was competent and capable, ambitious, driven, all of the things.

Julie Holly: And so those opportunities were like magnets. They would just come my way, and with every single one of those, it was like a new Rubik's Cube delivered straight to me, and it was so much fun. The truth is, as I was writing out this episode, I was writing in my notebook. I do that a lot. I write in my notebook a whole lot.

Julie Holly: And this expression flowed right onto the page effortlessly: lusting after the struggle. And I was thinking about how many of us, we wouldn't say it in that way 'cause that kinda sounds gross, but that's really what it is. We have become so deeply familiar with being in the process that we don't know what it's like to be on the other side of the process.

Julie Holly: We don't know what it is like to actually celebrate. And so what do we do? We do whatever we can to create homeostasis once again. Instead of, I'm gonna take a moment and I'm gonna celebrate this and I'm gonna enjoy this, and then I'll start the next project 'cause I'm not lazy.

Julie Holly: And we definitely don't want to be perceived as lazy, and so we stay in the flow of that process. And the reason why I'm kind of highlighting the joy of it is because those of us who are classic high performers, high achievers, we genuinely find pleasure, joy, and delight in the rigor of the process.

Julie Holly: It is intellectually stimulating. It is invigorating. The demands feel good. And I'll say this for me, and I'm not gonna put you in any box, but I'm noticing a pattern in my life. What I know now, being diagnosed with ADHD, is that that kept my dopamine going. Every one of those things was such a positive thing that it was a dopamine hit, and it was a really positive dopamine hit.

Julie Holly: So if I think about 2025 and how rough 2025 was for me personally and professionally, and if you're new to the show, I talk very openly about 2025 in a lot of previous episodes, so go back and have fun with those. I'm not gonna get into the details of it here. But that was not the right kind of dopamine fix. That was a negative reward. So if I was a child, that would be the same thing as me getting negative attention from my parent, arguing with my parent because now I'm getting attention and that is giving me dopamine.

Julie Holly: I believe that's also directly correlated with my ADHD. The other element of that that really feeds into the dopamine, and again, I'm going to say mine because I'm not gonna put you in the box. But I recognize now, having spent the last several months researching ADHD, is that there is urgency involved, there is demand involved, there is novelty involved, there's a timeline involved.

Julie Holly: There are these different pressures involved, and that pressure feels good to my brain. It actually helps release all the dopamine and all the other yummies so that it keeps me engaged and going. What's crazy is that if I'm in an email thread and there's just a lot of back and forth between a group of people, I recognize I have a tendency to check out because I'm not getting any dopamine from the interaction.

Julie Holly: That's like a little sidebar bonus, and I'm gonna be sharing a little bit more about my own ADHD adventure because I have found that many people in my life are also on the spectrum of ADHD, self-identified or officially diagnosed. And what I found for myself is that it has really helped me understand myself.

Julie Holly: It's allowing me to show up, to create, and to engage in a way that I'm actually able to reclaim capacity because I understand what is going on in my executive functioning, and that's allowing me to save so much capacity and to be able to put that into creativity or relationships or other elements of life that I'm called to.

Julie Holly: So I'll just be sharing little bits and pieces, I'm sure, throughout other episodes. I hope you find it helpful for yourself or maybe someone you care about. I know I touched on this earlier, but I wanna just circle back to this concept of staying in motion.

Julie Holly: And what happened for me was that staying in motion, that felt safer than pausing long enough to celebrate. Walk off the stage and just stay in that activated zone, finish the project, go on to the next project. I affectionately call this the Land of Next. It's that habit of reaching for the very next project or milestone so that you can stay in motion.

Julie Holly: It feels really healthy. So you finish the Ironman, you finish the marathon, you close the deal, you are on to the very next thing. What's interesting about this, and I'm gonna write an article about this on Substack, is that there's a danger to the Land of Next that we don't talk about.

Julie Holly: There's a danger when we don't choose to pause and celebrate. I want you to know that staying in constant pursuit, staying in constant motion is actually hijacking the best parts of us. That may sound a little dramatic. I get it. Here's what I mean by that, and I'm gonna share this from my own personal experience, not from yours and not from my clients'.

Julie Holly: What was happening to me was that I was being pulled in a lot of different directions. Everything was sexy, fun, and cool. It was like, oh my gosh, that project over there in the commercial real estate space, this project over here on the content creation side, this project over here with the nonprofit, this project over... I was just like, "This is so much fun." And so I was spread thin.

Julie Holly: The best of me was being hijacked because instead of putting all of my effort into a few very meaningful projects that would have depth and substance and staying power, I was being spread across the plains. There's that expression of being miles long but, like, an inch deep versus having substantial depth, but maybe just a small puddle.

Julie Holly: Part of my journey over the last couple of years has been to identify what is actually distracting me, what is drawing away from where I could go deep and make a meaningful impact. Which leads to a really important question. And that question is, why? Why do we need to stay in motion? Yep, dopamine. Super beautiful. What else is underneath the hood if we give ourself permission to look?

Julie Holly: There's another element beyond the best parts of us being hijacked. So I guess I'm unearthing a few different things, right? We have the dopamine for some of us, I think for most of us. And then we have the best parts of us getting hijacked, and then there's often, if we go down to the root, down to the core identity, there's oftentimes a fear. Now, the fear itself is going to be a little nuanced for each of us. Sometimes we might be afraid that we'll lose respect, that we'll lose relevance.

Julie Holly: These are real fears. These are real concerns that we have. And you may have your own nuance. That was just a few, and there are so many to choose from. For me, my fear oftentimes comes down to the root of belonging. And what's interesting about that in this particular context is that if I was pulled off the path of success, however you wanna look at it, I would actually feel like an imposter. Isn't that interesting?

Julie Holly: Because a lot of times we think of imposter syndrome as, I'm trying to aspire into something and I'm not that yet and so I feel like I'm an imposter. Like I don't belong here. Hear that, belong? And in this case, I would actually feel like an imposter if I were underperforming. That felt weird.

Julie Holly: That didn't feel normal or natural or comfortable, and so I felt like I was an imposter and I needed to get back onto the path of success, not necessarily because I needed to have all the accoutrements that come with success, but because underperforming didn't feel natural to me. So that was a huge paradigm shift, right?

Julie Holly: Elementary, middle, high school, I could be middle, average, felt really great about that. The switch got flipped in college. Being average or underperforming, that felt off. It's interesting to see how all of that evolves over a lifetime. The truth is most of us don't take time to synthesize that or to alchemize that.

Julie Holly: And when I say alchemize that, that really is getting it to its purest form. It's saying, "Okay, I'm going to apply so much pressure, so many chemicals or heat or however the substances are," you know, as a scientist is alchemizing something, "but when I am finished, I'm going to have an end product that is tangible and that I can see is beautiful and spectacular."

Julie Holly: With all of this, there can come that natural fear of downshifting. What's the fear of resting? What's the fear of pausing to celebrate? 2024 was a very defining year. I remember having my first multi-day Conscious Investor Growth Summit at the Coeur d'Alene Resort. It was so spectacular. It was absolutely exceptional.

Julie Holly: And a lot of these things that I can share with you now, they were present. I just hadn't alchemized them yet. I didn't have the words to be able to articulate it. I was in the middle of living it. But what I can look back on now, and I can see that was the early marker of the recalibration taking place in my life.

Julie Holly: And that is that as I was at that Growth Summit over the three days, I would find these pocket moments where I would just look at what was taking place, and I would allow myself to absorb and take it in. This was a massive project, putting on a large event for multiple days with people traveling across the country to come, having multiple speakers delivering extraordinary presentations throughout the weekend.

Julie Holly: All of this took substantial effort, substantial organization, and I could have stayed in the Land of Next. I could have stayed as an outside observer of the event, and at times I was. And so some of those times I would look as the event owner and organizer, I would just look and allow myself to be in awe that so many of these amazing high-capacity humans were there at this event that I'd organized.

Julie Holly: They came, many of them as strangers, and by the last day, so many of them were talking like close friends. You've heard me say on other episodes, there was a lot of business that took place because of the Conscious Investor Growth Summits that I held. People got to know each other, and I happen to have really extraordinary people in my life, and birds of a feather usually like to unite together.

Julie Holly: It just worked out so beautifully, and I allowed myself permission to absorb, to enjoy, to celebrate all of the hard work that I had done, all of the effort. Instead of saying, "What else do I have to do? What's the next thing?" It was, "Wow, this is so magical." I'd allow myself time to have pocket conversations with people and hear what's going on in their life, and being able to have presence with them and serve them and celebrate with them.

Julie Holly: There would be this small core group of close friends that we would get together, and we would have a cocktail and we would just enjoy and talk about what we got from the event and celebrate what was taking place and laugh and reflect, and it was my way of celebrating the event with friends.

Julie Holly: And that was a new process for me. I was literally recalibrating. I don't have to move on to the next. I can pause here. I can enjoy. I can enjoy the company of my friends. I can enjoy the success of what was created, and yes, I can move on to the Land of Next, but I'm going to enjoy this moment first.

Julie Holly: And to be fair, I know after one of the summits, three days later, I was hopping on a plane to go do a keynote at a friend's large conference, and on that flight, I was brain dumping all of my ideas for the next Conscious Investor Growth Summit. It was absolutely spectacular. And what I wanna highlight with that is that we're never trying to tamp down our ambition.

Julie Holly: What we're saying is, we wanna make celebration a normalized part of the process. We want to honor celebration as much as we honor the struggle. So struggle takes up, let's say, 95% of the process of any project. There is stepping into the project, figuring out the process, actually executing on the process, and golly, maybe that's even 99% of the process, right?

Julie Holly: And most of us take less than 1% to celebrate. And what I'm encouraging every one of us to do is to say, let's break that process down a little bit further, and let's do some micro celebrations along the way. Let's pause. Using the Growth Summit, for example, I might celebrate that the venue is booked and the dates are set.

Julie Holly: Celebrate that. And it doesn't mean I'm throwing a party. It doesn't mean I'm calling all my friends together. It just means I'm gonna take a moment to pause and celebrate. That's a great accomplishment. That's a big deal when you are organizing an event to have the venue booked, to have the dates on the calendar so that you can start promoting it and marketing it.

Julie Holly: But creating a process where there's actually a pause to celebrate that is incorporated. It honors it. I wanna stay here for just another moment. I've thought about this in other contexts, particularly with athletes. My daughter is a cross-country runner, and we've talked a lot about the importance of rest.

Julie Holly: We've talked about it here on the podcast as well. But a lot of times athletes, they will view their time training physically or being on the field or in an event as the most important thing, and they don't wanna take the time to rest. They don't understand rest is actually part of the process.

Julie Holly: Rest is valued. It should be cherished. It is our friend, and that process isn't finished until we take that time to rest. Same thing is true with celebration. The process really should never be finished until we have actually taken a moment to say, "Well done. Great job. We accomplished this piece of a much larger puzzle. This is cool."

Julie Holly: If you like puzzles, and I love puzzles, it's almost like finding the edge pieces of the puzzle you're working on. You've got all your corners, you celebrate that. You find all the edge pieces and they're all connected, you celebrate that. And now you start working on sections. Similar concept.

Julie Holly: We wanna take the processes, the puzzles that we are working on, and we wanna celebrate the little victories along the way. I'm celebrating that the website julieholly.com is live, and I am celebrating that the Recalibration Collective is live. And it is so awesome, and if you're not part of the Recalibration Collective, I just have to say, I 10 out of 10 encourage you to be there.

Julie Holly: The trainings that I'm offering there, they're so good. And the Collective is not intended to be a place of hundreds of people. I see it as being a place for 30, maybe 50 people. I might cap it, in all honesty, just because I want people to have a meaningful environment, and I want them to connect.

Julie Holly: So if you ever attended a Conscious Investor Growth Summit, you want to be in the Collective because those are the kind of people that are in the Collective, and we're doing trainings and a book club, and it's really cool, and it's incredibly reasonable to be part of it. So you can head to the website, julieholly.com, to check it out.

Julie Holly: All right, it's your turn. We're going to take time to walk the Recalibration pathway together, and I wanna remind you that I am going to include 20-second breaks between each of the five stages as we go through. I'll speak from my own habits: I am a voracious content consumer.

Julie Holly: I love hearing, learning, listening, all of it. But integrating is critical. Integrating is where we take what we have learned, and we actually integrate it into our lives in a meaningful way that just allows a micro-recalibration to take place. So we're not looking for a magic wand moment. We're not looking for everything to be dramatically different.

Julie Holly: We're just looking, how can you take all of these concepts and affect one part of your life in a beautiful way? As we have those pauses on the pathway, please invite yourself to sit with that for just 15, 20 seconds. And as always, let's take a moment to just take a couple of breaths. We're going, we're ambitious, we do rigorous things.

Julie Holly: That's exciting and it's good, and we don't need to slow any of that down. We just need to understand our process. So I wanna encourage you to take a breath in, and you might draw that breath in through your nose for as long as you can. And when you are drawing that breath in, see if you can feel it all the way down at the bottom of your tummy, filling your whole chest and lungs and abdomen with just fresh, beautiful air.

Julie Holly: And when you are completely filled, I want you to hold it for just a moment before releasing it.

Julie Holly: And when you release it, remember, you can be like the air going out of the tube. You wanna push. Don't just let it go out a little bit. Actually push that air out. Allow yourself to hear it.

Julie Holly: You may even feel yourself contracting like an inflatable donut, you know, that you would take to the beach. That might just be contracting.

Julie Holly: Allow yourself to just take a couple more breaths in that same way as we step into Recognition. Recognition is just simply noticing what is. We're going to see what's driving us. There is no shame, no judgment, no criticism or condemnation when we are recognizing. I wanna invite you to remember a moment when your attention jumped from one thing to the next thing. You were in the Land of Next. Where did your attention go as soon as that was done?

Julie Holly: Then we move into Release. Release is simply discerning what no longer needs to be carried in the same way and releasing what no longer belongs. We're gonna set down what no longer needs to come forward with us. In Recognition, you found that moment where your attention was jumping from one thing to the next. And as we are in Release, I want you to consider what switched on felt like it protected. What feels at risk if you pause here for just a moment?

Julie Holly: Now we move into Reclamation. Recovering, claiming, or bringing forward what does belong. Because what still belongs comes with you. Maybe you can bring back enjoyment that already belongs in the work you're doing. Maybe you're reclaiming and holding onto the pleasure of seeing the puzzle solved, of seeing the final product, the outcome.

Julie Holly: Maybe that outcome lands in your bank account. Maybe that outcome lands in you attending an event for someone important in your life. Take a moment and think of something that you're still in the middle of. What's one part you'd like to enjoy for a moment?

Julie Holly: Let's step into Reinforcement. Reinforcement is simply practicing and gathering lived evidence in ordinary daily life. This is where that new rhythm comes, just one ordinary day at a time. Allow yourself to take another breath here, and as you do, picture that moment and actually name what you appreciated about it. Stay with that detail for just one breath, allowing it to integrate into your nervous system.

Julie Holly: So often we have experiences, but we don't stay with them. We don't integrate the good experiences into our life. Allow yourself to answer to yourself, what did you enjoy about it?

Julie Holly: We transition now to Renewed Momentum. Moving forward from a place that is more integrated with who you are now. We move from what matters. There is nothing wrong with ambition. There's nothing wrong with being excited about the next project. When we are moving from what matters, when we're moving from that deep alignment, all of those things are a beautiful gift in our life.

Julie Holly: So as you think about what's next, what do you want to remember about this?

Julie Holly: Friend, before you move on from one small thing this week, pause long enough to name one thing you enjoyed about it. And remember, all of the Season 5 podcast episodes are available at julieholly.com. And when you go to the individual episode pages, there are extension questions that you can step into.

Julie Holly: You can copy and paste your answers so easily because I don't wanna track all of your things. Nothing to submit. It's just there to encourage you to reflect, to take the content deeper. If this content today has been meaningful for you, I wanna encourage you to go check out that webpage to look at those extension questions, to take this content deeper into your life.

Julie Holly: Check out The Recalibration Collective. That is a place where we get to practice together. We have two live trainings a month. We have the book club. It is a place where I am posting content that is not the same content I'm posting anywhere else because it is a very private community, and I love that so much.

Julie Holly: Also, while you're on the website, that is your place to go register for the next live training that is open to everybody, taking place next Tuesday from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Pacific time. That topic is going to be how do you change without starting over? I hope to see you there, and if you know someone that is in a season of transition where they don't wanna lose their spark, they have a lot of experience and knowledge, and they want to utilize that effectively, and they also want to move from what matters, they want to move from wholeness, then share that with them as well.

Julie Holly: Remember, this is a daily journey, and you're exactly where you need to be today.