Do your work — The Firegirl Blog

The problem with fear is that our cavemen brains haven’t evolved to manage it very well and they will do whatever it takes to chase us back into safety. Nausea, shaking knees, hyperventilation, panic, mental chaos, etc, all of which FEEEEEEL terrible.

Most folks think the answer lies in WAITING for those feelings to pass before making a move. The truth is, the feelings don’t pass, they just settle down until the next time you decide to turn off Netflix and change your life.

This pattern ensures no moves are made year after year, which is a sure-fire path to self-loathing over time.

Do your workErin KirkJanuary 21, 2021fear, Strategy for anxiety and fear Comment

38 days till 2021

But here's the thing. The God I serve wastes nothing, and while 2020 feels like a blowout there's no way that can be true. It's more likely that things less splashy than scooter rides along the Mediterranean have been happening under the surface all along. I just can't see them and they feel less fun.

Truthfully, I probably needed to pump the brakes on a few things, and since I wasn't doing it, 2020 pumped them for me.

Do your workErin KirkNovember 23, 2020Covid19, Do your thing, trust, life purpose, find purposeComment

Keep Laying Bricks

I’m showing up to my life and my business every day and choosing to do the next right thing. Our world needs positive leadership now more than ever, you and I can be on that team.

All we have to do is keep laying bricks.

Do your workErin KirkApril 2, 2020coronavirus, mindset, keep going, encouragementComment

Where is Your Head Today?

No, I want you to fully experience every emotion you have. Scream into a pillow. Rage clean. Smash plates. Space out in consternation. Cry your eyes out. Take the rage out for a run. Hear, see and acknowledge every part of you that is furious about this. Same with you health care workers. Let the rage out. Here’s your free pass to completely lose your friggin mind.

Better? Good. Now let’s get to work.

Do your workErin KirkMarch 25, 2020coronavirus, courage, mindset, small businessComment

Changing Your Life Is On You Boo.

If the responsibility for my outcome is not 100% mine, what chance do I have of creating a new one? If someone or something else has 20-30% of the responsibility for changing my life, (the weather, my spouse, the town I live in, my boss) and they don't do their part, what then?

Do your workErin KirkMarch 9, 2020blame, personal responsibility, change your life, midlfe, midlife coachComment

Just Do The Next Right Thing

So the question I have is where do you need to dream bigger? Where has life taught you to settle? Stop settling, pull the chocks and just take the next right step.

Do your workErin KirkFebruary 5, 2020Bob Goff, Courage, Just Do SomethingComment

How to Keep Moving Forward - Three Tips

I regularly catch myself expecting a Redwood tree outcome, when I’ve got a sapling’s time and weather invested. What helps is to observe the trees I planted that are growing and thriving. They’re not 300 feet tall yet - but of course they’re not, that only happens on Instagram.

That beautiful, wild thing you’re doing, you need to keep doing it, and here are three tips to help you.

How to Get Strong and Free.

So if you’re resigned to fear, inertia, boredom, isolation, selfishness, or aimlessness, YOU ARE NOT FREE. All that stuff is diminishing you, stealing your potential and keeping you from your good life purpose.

I’m not saying my life is easy now, it’s just hard in different ways. I had to confront my own fear, shame, loneliness, anxiety and love of control. Believe me, it’s a process, but you can’t get free and whole without swimming that moat, and the only way you become a good swimmer is by swimming.

The Scariest Thing I've Ever Done

In some ways, I was the best version of myself in Africa, because Mercy Ships, my colleagues and God forced me to be. They kept putting me in situations where I had to confront my fear of failure and relentless need for perfection. The Esther Project was a perfect example.

It’s tempting to want to run back there because Mercy Ships was the fire by which I warmed myself while I learned what I know about God and faith. However, there comes a time to build your own fire - so others can keep warm while they learn it too. This is why Girl Catch Fire exists.

Do your workErin KirkMarch 26, 2019Courage, mercy ships, make your life matterComment

Seriously, Is This All There Is?

If you enjoy the first three levels on Maslow’s hierarchy, every day, almost without thinking, who is better equipped than you to help someone who doesn’t even have level one?

Whether across the world or across the street, those people are everywhere, and you - middle to upper class American women - are in a position to send your elevator back down help them up.

Get Unstuck.
On Purpose.
Build a Happy Second Half…

And actually, that’s where your own joy and esteem is found.

Get Unstuck. On Purpose.Build a Happy Second Half…

And actually, that’s where your own joy and esteem is found.

Get Unstuck.
On Purpose.
Build a Happy Second Half…