My oldest daughter has an August 6th birthday.
When she turned five, she had 5 friends with summer birthdays too, yet I was the only parent that had their child start school that year.
The rest of the parents “held their kid back” another year and waited to send them when they were 6.
When some of the other mothers asked why I didn’t hold Camryn back, I had two quick thoughts.
1. I expected her to succeed and love kindergarten.
2. It didn’t occur to me to hold her back. She was ready! And if there were areas that she wasn’t “ready” in yet, she would learn those things!
Luckily, this story isn’t about whether or not to hold your child back.
However, it is about whether or not you’re holding yourself back.
That thing in your business or motherhood that you’ve been “holding off on”, “waiting to be ready”, waiting for “more time”…
How would it be different if you
1. Expected to succeed
2. Believed you could learn what you need to learn to have it be a success?
And now my 19-year-old killing it in college! She’s a junior that just turned 19 this month! They said she wasn’t “ready” to apply to nursing school, but look who’s totally ready!
You change everything when you expect to succeed!