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Minamaliit ko sarili ko. 👉 I make myself smaller so that I don't scare people away. 👉 I quiet down and try to be the las...
02/05/2024

Minamaliit ko sarili ko.

👉 I make myself smaller so that I don't scare people away.
👉 I quiet down and try to be the last person to talk.
👉 I dress simply so that I don't grab attention.

and yet somehow, I still get told:
💥 "Your outfits are aggressively forward."
💥 "You're intense in how you show up and speak."
💥 "You're crazy!"

And my face like: 👁👄👁

All my efforts to be smaller and you're still saying that I take up that much space? 🤨

I got so frustrated with diminishing myself that I didn't realize that it was because I learned it was unsafe for me to be big. 🥲

So I judged myself for being the way I am - as if how I expressed myself was wrong in and of itself.

but if so many people love me as I am, then why did I struggle in loving me too? 😭

But I guess "You can't read the label from inside the bottle."

So maybe, I can start trusting the way my loved ones see me.
And slowly, I can start taking up space confidently once more. 🥰

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I was never good at posing in front of a camera. 🙈I had stage fright and I was scared of how I'd be seen. Or worse, perc...
29/04/2024

I was never good at posing in front of a camera. 🙈
I had stage fright and I was scared of how I'd be seen. Or worse, perceived.

I had a carefully crafted image of myself that I would always step into in front of an audience.

"What if they see through its' cracks?"
This translated to my stiff poses and how obvious it'd be how self-conscious and in my head I was in front of a crowd. 😫

I thought every one would judge my every move, every small detail and think how I'd never measure up to this certain standard.

I eventually realized that in thinking like this, people will never see me for me, but only as the person I present myself to be.

And it's so sad pala to think that way. It means that I will never have true relationships based on who I really am. ☹️

Because of this, I slowly started to get to know who I am and what I enjoy outside of what I'd like people to think of me. It took a lot of crying HAHAHA

In the process, I've lost many connections and I was brought to different places than where I thought I'd be.

💖 But I gained people who SEE ME for ME.
💖 I am in situations where my strengths and desires are valued for what they are.
💖 I am loved as I am, just as I am.

So now I get to pose freely. I get to smile freely.
I know who I am showing up as in front of the camera, and I now get to do it as myself, without the need to perform. 💅

Sana ikaw rin. 🌟

“Kat, I read your newsletter - I don’t want to read it na during work. Lagi mo akong pinapaiyak 😭"Little did this person...
26/04/2024

“Kat, I read your newsletter - I don’t want to read it na during work. Lagi mo akong pinapaiyak 😭"

Little did this person know that that’s my personal measure for impact with my newsletters. 💌

I LIKE TO MAKE PEOPLE CRY! HAHAHA

But not in a way that hurts them. In a way that allows them to finally admit what they've been scared to admit to themselves - whatever that may be, and highlight a new possibility for them.

I believe it's cause I'm a challenger. So when I have conversations with people, they almost always tear up. 🥹

I know it’s because these people are so tired of holding it all together, waiting for someone to tell them that it’s ok to put it down sometimes, that world isn’t going to end if you do so.

I know.
Because I was once there too.

Now I love sharing the process I went through in the mission of helping others recognize that achievement doesn’t have to come at the cost of yourself. 🫶

I’d actually been scared of launching my newsletter because I was afraid of being vulnerable and I felt like people already knew what I share. 😥
But I still pushed through.

In the last 2 weeks, I’ve consistently gotten a 62% open rate for more than 100 subscribers in my list. ✨

I’d like to say that’s a step closer to bringing my mission to life.

It all started by embracing all the chapters of my journey and the little things that make me my weird crazy self.

My life is my message. 💖

Your life is your message too.
When are you going to start showing up for that? You never know how much you’re going to impact someone until you do.
I believe in you! 🤗

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IT'S RAAAAWWWW!!! 🔥🔥🔥Gordon's famous for his rage in the kitchen. It IS called Hell's Kitchen after all. How about you? ...
24/04/2024

IT'S RAAAAWWWW!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Gordon's famous for his rage in the kitchen. It IS called Hell's Kitchen after all.

How about you? When was the last time you were raging and ANGRY?
Has it been a while? Or just yesterday?

Either way, did you enjoy it?

🚫 We often demonize anger writing it off as destructive.
🚫 We dismiss anger boxing it in as someone out of control.
🚫 We repress anger thinking it is an emotion that hurts.

But in reality, anger shows up when we feel the need to protect ourselves from a threat.

We come to believe that anger is destructive and unhealthy, especially because of our influences growing up.

😡 We see it in Pinoy Dramas where anger is used as an emotion to control and to invalidate someone else’s perspective.

😡 We see this in our online culture where trolls are prominent to set off people’s emotions and shape the narrative.

😡 We talk about controlling our anger, writing someone angry off, and ultimately just minimizing it to avoid conversations about it because… It feels like such a touchy subject and we don’t want to set someone off.

But there are actually many forms of anger.
And underneath it all, anger comes out because we feel that we are threatened, violated, or feel powerless to change some thing.

Your anger is a signal of unmet needs.
Your anger loves you.
Your anger is telling you something.

Are you listening?

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The scariest place to be in is the same place as last year.I recently did my monthly review to assess my progress and I ...
13/03/2024

The scariest place to be in is the same place as last year.

I recently did my monthly review to assess my progress and I noticed something alarming.

It was the same old story: the SAME frustrations, SAME 1% improvements and SAME goals as 30 days ago.

NGYEK. No wonder the nagging feeling that I wasn’t doing anything was so loud right before I’d sleep. Nothing had changed in 30 days!

I wrote the various plans and systems to change and that “I am committed to taking action.”

Despite this commitment, the pattern persisted. Over the next 2 weeks, I still found myself hesitating. I’d miss out on trade after trade, on certain opportunities and I still tell myself “It’s ok. There’s still another opportunity. There’s still next time.”

Until it got to the point where I predicted a trade, hesitated on taking it, and watched it TP right before my eyes, all frustrated.

Why do I keep allowing myself to miss out?

Turns out, I’d been procrastinating on my goals pala. And since procrastination’s not an issue of time management, but fear, I asked - what am I afraid of now?

Fear of success.

Ding ding ding! Here we go again.

There were 3 key events in the last 3 months that my brain condemned as failures and it triggered my old belief system:

1️⃣ “The higher the successes I get, the bigger the failures.”

2️⃣ “I'm afraid of enjoying the journey again so much then for things not to fall through according to my plans, that it's better for me to just stay small.”

3️⃣ “I’m afraid that the thing I am so proud of creating would fail again.”

Then, it all clicked:

💥 Why I was procrastinating
💥 Why I’ve been trying to fill my days with seemingly busy activities
💥 Why I’ve been frustrated with all the missed opportunities.

I was trying to justify my existence once again with the things that I’m able to accomplish, as if my existence as myself isn't enough.

Amidst this frustration and self-doubt, I know that’s not what I believed anymore. My worth is no longer defined by my achievements. That’s only a fraction of my identity.

I’m reminded of my own message - how to divorce your high achiever identity.

Divorcing your high achiever identity - the thought that you are only valuable because of what you’re able to do - is a lifelong process.

But ultimately, it’s about learning how to be safe in yourself so that you can realize you’re not boxed in the narratives that you’ve been conditioned to carry and evolve towards a more authentic you.

Ultimately, gaining a new fuel for achievement - one defined by freedom, love and authenticity instead of anger, proving and burnout.

How about you? In what ways have you been procrastinating your successes and have you been able to unearth what you’re afraid of?

If not yet, send me a PM! I still have 3 slots for my Achiever Recovery program where I help high achievers transform their fuel for achievement from anger, proving and burnout to a more sustainable fuel of love, freedom and authenticity.

“In order to be successful, to truly have what you want in your life, you must stop waiting to be told what to do and ho...
06/03/2024

“In order to be successful, to truly have what you want in your life, you must stop waiting to be told what to do and how to do it.

🔥Your goals.

🔥Your decisions.

🔥Your commitment.

If you can’t see the end result, how can anyone else see it for you?”

I recently picked up this book called Relentless by Tim Grover.

Let me tell you - this book has validated my experience as a high achiever more than any book I’ve read so far.

He described Relentlessness as
”demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more.” 💪

This perfectly encapsulates how my blockmate once described me.

💬 “Kat, you’re like a roaring train. If there’s a door in front of you, you’re just going to break it down.”

I felt bad the first time I heard it. I thought it was a bad thing. I’d often find myself in spaces where I lowered myself, my standards just so others could also keep up.

Otherwise they’d call me intimidating, too much, too demanding.

It was scary. I didn’t want to be ostracized. 🙈

But whenever I tried to chill out, it was just not IT for me. I’d get all antsy and itching to do something more. I knew I was lowering my standards for performance and I was not happy about it.

This book just gave me the confidence I needed to give myself permission to be just that. No apologies. No fear.

So throw out all the versions of Kat that you’ve met so far.

Because now, I want to be relentless.

Let me introduce myself again.

👋 Hi! I’m Kat.
I’m a Relentless Activator that enables emotional clarity for high achievers to thrive beyond burnout by divorcing their high achiever identity.

If this sounds right up your alley, let’s connect! 💖

21/02/2024

"Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about making yourself smaller." - Marianne Williamson

I love talking to Eldest siblings, Achievers and Analysts!! 📊I love it because it’s an immediate connection to being typ...
16/02/2024

I love talking to Eldest siblings, Achievers and Analysts!! 📊

I love it because it’s an immediate connection to being type A, responsible, dependable…

And also feeling…

😰 The pressure to get it right
😰 The paralyzing fear of failing
😰 The crushing weight of disappointing those we care about

After all, we grew up learning that if we don’t manage to keep it all together, we’re a **failure**. And so rarely, do we change our minds about things, and we stick things out and test and learn to ensure that we get things RIGHT!

Because Annie Duke says in Quit:

“If you abandon a belief, that is the moment **you admit you were mistaken.** If you set out on a course of action and change your mind, that’s **when you go from “failing” to “having failed.”** And if you failed, doesn’t that mean you made a mistake to start in the first place?”

That’s why it’s so terrifying to change, especially for people like us. Because change requires the humility to admit that you were wrong. And when we admit we’re wrong, we have no idea the consequences that’s going to happen next. After all, we “should have known better.”

As the Ate/Kuya, Achiever, Analyst - **I should have planned for this better.**

But that’s the thing, we’re never going to know any better. We’re never going to know any more. We’re not God.

Yet, in the quest to be the best, we fall into the perfectionism trap.

But perfectionism is actually the pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough. (The Artist’s Way, Julie Cameron)

So we’re constantly researching for more information, always seeing new mistakes to patch up and correct, always moving, moving, moving onto the next new thing.

The best we can do is to decide with what we have and roll with the punches. That’s what makes US the decision maker for our own lives. We live and die by our decision.

Albeit terrifying, we live, we learn and we do better. 🫡

So if you’re an eldest sibling, achiever or analyst who’s in transition to figuring themselves out, send me a PM!
I’m accepting 5 more slots for my Achiever Burnout Recovery Program and let’s see if it’s a fit to work together 🌟

You’ve got to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings or else you’ll lose yourself every time.Trust me, doing ...
17/01/2024

You’ve got to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings or else you’ll lose yourself every time.

Trust me, doing this is a daily battle.

There are so many days where I wonder why I couldnt just have chosen the easier path.

It was literally a battle as one half of me would beat me down with doubt and fear about what I was doing, and the other half was validating me and reframing the statement the other me would say.

Like that scene in the song The Ultimate Deception in the Journey to Bethlehem where Joseph was having an internal battle about his feelings towards Mary!! (omg fave movie musical lately!!)

Eventually it reminded me of what I learned from a podcast the other day:

🔥 Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
🔥 Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
🔥 Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.
🔥 Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

🔥The only thing that is doing the thing is DOING THE THING. 🔥

And beating myself up and trying to correct my emotion was also NOT DOING THE THING.

So I shifted it. Ok, fine, I still feel badly, but I’m gonna put on my big girl pants and do the thing.

I picked myself up and I did the thing.

The next thing I knew, I found myself in momentum, in flow and wondering why I was feeling badly in the first place.

Ultimately, it's our choice that determines the end.

What about you? How are you training your mind to become stronger than your emotions?

Read the full post and join in on this discussion at The Katalyst Circle - where we expand perspectives, ask the tough questions, and discover unconventional answers towards an unconventional life.

It was never about if you were capable enough, it was always about whether you liked it enough.One of the funniest thing...
15/01/2024

It was never about if you were capable enough, it was always about whether you liked it enough.

One of the funniest things I noticed is that the people I attract as my coaching clients tend to be achievers, even if they're not aware they are.

They're constantly wondering if they're enough, downplaying the successes that they've achieved, and thinking if there is something more they can be doing.

This can be surprising to some. Because these achievers, seem to have it all - the money, the societal acceptance, the success. "They seem to be at a state where they know what they're doing."

But, hidden behind all these, they're actually:

🏃 Always looking for the next thing to improve on

🏃 always seeing new mistakes to patch up and correct

🏃 always moving, moving, moving onto the next new thing.

As a society, we are conditioned to accept and reward this. After all it's what gets things done.

We always say that we must be growing or improving daily. We praise people for doing things beyond what is expected. And we come to expect consistent levels of output and successes.

Thus, becoming a never ending pursuit of the impossible - perfection.

"Perfectionism, is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again." - Julie Cameron, the Artist's Way

It is the constant repairing of what we have deemed to be broken, wrong, or a failure - our humanity.

Hence, we learn that emotions are unsafe, resting is not allowed, and ruthless rationality is king.

Achievers learn to betray themselves, their likes, and their humanity hoping that one day they will be enough to just....

Be human.

🤔 If I do this, THEN I will have more money.

🤔 If I do this, THEN I will have control.

🤔 If I do this, THEN I will be free.

But finding the solution in a material thing doesn't solve the problem. It in fact just snowballs onto the next thing that the achiever will latch on to. And the cycle repeats itself until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of making the change.

Only then, we come to realize that all that we've known to be right doesn't work anymore and finally do all the necessary changes to confront all that hurts.

And most people never do this, simply because it hurts.

But my dear, if you only looked at yourself through the eyes of another, you'd discover just how impressive what you do and who you are is. 🤩

No one else will be able to accomplish or do anything you have done, simply because they are not you.

And once you see yourself for all that you are, I hope that you fall in love with yourself.

And all the wonderful things that make you human.

You only have one life, why would you like to spend it proving to others that you are good enough?

I think you're plenty good and capable enough.

My challenge is - do YOU like it enough? If no, then why do it?

I hope you spend 2024 with the things that you like and bring you joy. The power's in your hands. It's your choice. 🌟

*Photo from LA Japan trip in Tokyo DisneySea as we rediscovered our inner children hahaha

"I gave up a lot to have this life of mine. My lifestyle comes at a high price that people don't really appreciate." a c...
10/01/2024

"I gave up a lot to have this life of mine. My lifestyle comes at a high price that people don't really appreciate." a client told me on our final coaching session.

I met her at a time where she recently walked away from a job that many people would die for, struggling with her ForEx trading journey and felt like every decision she makes needs a proper ROI before she takes them. She felt so far from where she wanted to be. And because of her past experiences, she felt that she couldn't fail to make any wrong moves with her life.

3 months later, and her conclusion with her life is...
"I'm finally here. The future me I wanted to become is so much nearer than I thought. "

And where's "here"? 🧐

It's waking up without an alarm, savoring the sunset daily, trading the forex market confidently, feeling peace with her choices.

Because, in the end, it's her life to shape. It's her definition of success to follow through with.

Her words made me pause and consider my own journey, as I'd recently been questioning where I stand today compared to where I thought I'd be by now.

But recalling all I gave up to get here – the paths I rejected, the consequences I faced, the tradeoffs I chose – has shaped who I've become.

I may not be where I expected, but these experiences have transformed me into someone I never imagined.
I'm meeting a new part of myself every step of the way and that makes the pursuit of my goals all the more rewarding.

How about you? What significant tradeoffs have led you to this moment?
For sure, those choices created the person you are today. 😊

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2023 ends in less then 10 days ‼️As the year comes to a close and another one looms in the horizon, I want you to really...
22/12/2023

2023 ends in less then 10 days ‼️

As the year comes to a close and another one looms in the horizon, I want you to really reflect - are you living the life you’ve always dreamed of?

We only have one life, and for most of the time we don’t really ask ourselves how we want to live it.

We just let things and other people decide for us.
After all, that’s the easy thing to do. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Later on, you notice yourself complaining, noticing where things don’t feel enough, where you want more, where things should be better.

But the problem is - you’re too scared to shake things up. To go against the status quo. To get yourself into the unknown.

What if….?
What if…?!
WHAT IF..?!?

Blah blah blah.

Everyday is another adventure into the unknown, the successful people you look up to have just figured out how to navigate these uncharted waters better.

I'd love for you to discover Nikki Jurado, aka NFG, to Understanding the Defining Decade and learning what it takes figure out what really happens if you don’t have a map to life on our FIRST EPISODE releasing today at 6:00PM😉

The Katalyst Podcast Season 1 aims to understand The Uncharted Paths in life - How do people build and create intentional lives when they go against what’s considered normal? 🤔

There are many courageous decisions we need to make in life to create your own path and we hope that by listening to this, you’re inspired to take that charge that for your own life ❤️

Tune in later today on the following platforms in the comments below❤️

How would you react if you lost your passport 30 minutes before boarding time?Because I was surprised with my reaction H...
29/11/2023

How would you react if you lost your passport 30 minutes before boarding time?

Because I was surprised with my reaction HAHAHAHAHA

So my friend lost his passport with the JP Visa 1 hour before boarding time.....

I'm normally a planner, ensuring that everything is planned to the detail and has a schedule. So if it were up to me, I'd already be at the boarding gate at least 1 hour before, chilling.

But not this time.

I found myself relaxed, calm and just trying to help my friend find it.

Imagine the scenario, we each had 2 big maletas, one carryon luggage and a backpack each - sprawled on the floor checking every part of his stuff trying to look for it.

Aside from the fact that we became super close already, his gf got to check all that he bought on this trip HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Halfway through the search, my mentor was already plotting what's going to happen from Plan A-Z.

💬 "Can you ask what's the latest time pwede mag check in ng bags?"

💬 "Kat if hindi mahanap passport, you're gonna have a solo flight. I'll stay with him, we'll go with to a Bnb."

💬 "Worst case, we'll just buy clothes here and reroute our flight to Dubai"

I was stunned.

Aside from the question "is this what people would do if money weren't an issue?" that kept popping up in my head.

I was amazed at their reaction.

Because normally, if this were to happen to me -

😣 pinapagalitan na ako,
😣 I would be in an extreme panic and blaming myself that I lost the passport
😣 I would be thinking how much of a burden I was to the people I was travelling with.
😣 Also the fact that I was so embarrassed that my luggage was open for all the world to see.

Or you know, all of the above.

But nope. We already recognized the state of panic and emergency we were in. Why make it worse by freaking out?

I also gave myself a deadline to helping him find it because I couldn't stay any longer with them.

When that deadline came, I checked in my bags first and started checking with the flight attendants what are possible solutions to this.

GOOD THING - it was the OLD passport that got lost. And the attendants were able to create a solution where we can all fly together!

So LONG STORY SHORT - we were all able to go home!

And this situation only proves that...

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Most of the time, we think there's something wrong with us when we can't find it in ourselves to calm down when emergencies or triggers happen.

But little do we know that these are just learned patterns and habits that we've grown comfortable with having over the years of growing up and surviving as a human being.

If I didn't do the inner work for myself, I might have exploded and freaked out at that very moment, or even blamed my friend or whatever, when he already recognizes the gravity of the situation.

This reaction would actually tell more about me rather than him, because I was the one who was triggered about what happened.

But no, everything's all good. Because I was aware of my own narratives and patterns, we were able to solve what was in front of us.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

How can you start to shift your learned reactions to more helpful ones?

For me what worked was this process of:

1. Identifying the trigger (situation, word, action, etc)
2. Finding my core narrative (If I didnt have my s*t together, I would be punished)
3. Creating a new system to reroute that habit (how can I prevent that trigger from happening again?)
4. Embodying a new identity that would install the system into a habit. BE > DO > HAVE nga diba.

It all starts from the inside and how you truly see things around you that creates your life.

Everything else is just a symptom of your core narrative.

So how about you, if you lost your passport, do you think you'd just chill around?

What steps can you take to start identifying how you see the world?

I might be called out for sharing this but..."A lack of money is never, ever a problem. A lack of money is simply a symp...
23/11/2023

I might be called out for sharing this but...

"A lack of money is never, ever a problem. A lack of money is simply a symptom of what is going on underneath." - T. Harv Ecker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

"If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life," Harv continues to say.

Grabe no? Medyo mashaket hahahaha.

But that's precisely why I wanted to share it.
Because I don't want to continue making that mistake anymore. And maybe, you also don't want to.

For years, I would blame everything around me for how things were, why I didn't have enough, why I felt like the things I did were never enough etc etc etc.
Even when I earned 6 figures, I still didn't feel enough.

My subconscious found it's way to the outer world by sabotaging the good experiences I had to something my mind could grasp at that time - which was something much much lower.
I thought really lowly of myself. And so my outer world reflected my inner world.

What followed after was an intense process of inner cleansing charot.
I took a hard look at myself - my experiences, what I believed about the world and myself, and all the actions I took that lead me up to that point.

The most painful part of this process was realizing that... IT WAS ME!!! I WAS THE ONE WHO CHOSE THOSE THINGS.
👉 I was the one who quit my secure high paying job despite everyone saying that I was doing well.
👉 I was the one criticizing my former partner for everything despite all the support he gave me.
👉 I was the one who chose to put myself in spaces where I would repeat patterns of self sabotage and self-rejection because it was easier for my mind to accept it.

So hi! It's me, I'm the problem it's me!

It was at this point that I had to make a decision - do I stay with these patterns and continue down this road that's predictable, or choose the uncomfortable path and create a different life? One that I wouldn't know where it would lead?
My answer was simple - to change!

After all, the cost of clarity is accountability.

Because now that you know more, you are now aware of what needs to be done. And if you don't make that change, then you know that you are now making excuses. Thus, our clarity of our vision, goals and desires give us a benchmark to measure ourselves against.

It can now tell us that we're not enough to get to the level we want. Or the tradeoffs we're not willing to make.

"The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is." - Eckhart Tolle

And part of recognizing the "what is" for me, is that I played a part in all that happened to me.

I was the one who was allowing things to happen to me, rather than claiming ownership of my life.

Once I fully accepted my part, I was able to forgive myself for the choices I made at that time. Simply, because it was the choice I once thought was best for me.

Now I know more.
I want more.

And Harv says - Your comfort zone is directly proportional to your income zone.
If you want more income, check inside for what's happening first, then get the hell out of your comfort zone!!!

It's time to stop being the problem in your life and start owning it.

“Kalat lang yan. Dapat may reason bat kukunin mo yan.”I’m so used to making sure that everything I say, do or choose has...
20/11/2023

“Kalat lang yan. Dapat may reason bat kukunin mo yan.”

I’m so used to making sure that everything I say, do or choose has a purpose.

It must align to my end goal, to my vision, a certain reason or else it’s useless.

It got to the point where I even saw people this way, like the anime strategists that always have “uses” for certain people. Hahaha sorry binubuking ko na sarili ko.

Because of this, I got so used to denying myself of things I actually liked.

I always needed a reason to justify why I liked them, or deserved them, before I would choose to act upon it. ESPECIALLY when it involved time or money investment.

So what ended up happening, is that I’m always controlled, held back, and robbing myself of the joy I actually want.

I didn't realize that everything I did was controlled by money and my fear of losing it or not making the most of it.

So on my Japan trip, my mentor challenged me to notice my money beliefs and rewire them as we went on sa trip.

For the first time, I allowed myself to indulge in my favorite anime’s merch, fanart, etc - just because I wanted them.

There was no justifiable reason why I would spend hundreds of yen on gachapon or claw machines aside from the genuine joy of getting my favorite character.

Wala namang ROI sa pag-gaganon kase may chance pa namang mag loss.

But there are things we do, just for the genuine joy of it.

And these are the things that bring us the joy of being alive.

Pagod ka na rin bang macontrol by money?

Don’t let your fear of judgement stop you from creating the life that you want ✨For the longest time, I’ve tried to be m...
04/11/2023

Don’t let your fear of judgement stop you from creating the life that you want ✨

For the longest time, I’ve tried to be more “adult-like” by being so serious, by following what people say is the right way, and ultimately disregarding my authentic self.

I’ve come to learn that success = more responsibility, more burdens, more chances of failure. Thus, I’ve come to avoid it.

However, one of the biggest secrets I’ve been learning as I grow older is that….
🙈 We’re all just kids inside.
🙈 We’re all just rediscovering the things we love and light us up.
🙈 We’re all just kids with a little bit more money to do the things we want

The people who make a lot of money are actually the ones who are just having fun in the process.
They are so in love with every step of the way that the trade offs are worth it at every level.

Because ultimately - adulting is basically being 100% responsible for yourself. Your choices. Your excuses. Your results. Your life.

‼️ No one else gets to make them for you but you.

👉🏽 No one else gets to experience the joy of success but you.
👉🏽 No one else gets to bear the burden of lessons and tradeoffs but you.
👉🏽 No one else gets to feel the sting of regret of a life not lived authentically.

So when are you going to stop letting people dictate your life, and actually start taking owning up to it?

I know I did.

I’ve held off cosplaying for 13 years.
But today, I did it for the first time, in Japan, for a whole day.

I did it once, I can do it again.
Judgement will come whether I do it or not.
And I know, I’d rather pick the life where I choose things just because I like them. 🤩

Share below a time where you’ve taken the leap towards owning your life! 🥰

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