It’s Never Too Late! Continue Dreaming And Rewrite Your Story!

What’s stopping you from dreaming again? There is never a bad time to embrace your reality and identity, and it’s never too late to rewrite your story! You may not have the ability to change the past, but you have the present moment to focus on. Tune into this episode as your host Yanet Borrego shares her process of rewriting her story and acknowledging discomfort. She discusses the importance of focusing on your vision and taking action. She also emphasizes that it is crucial to cling to that hope inside of you because that will keep you going. One day, you’ll get to the place you have always wanted to be. You just have to recognize your ability to illustrate your story again.

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Welcome to another episode. This is the first episode that I have after coming from our honeymoon. We got married on June 3rd in Hawaii. We had a blast. We had an almost five-hour photo shoot that started at 5:15 AM in the morning. Honestly, it’s very typical to us. This wedding was a reflection of who we are as people. We are morning people. We love mornings. At 3:00 AM in the morning, Cody’s sisters, my now sisters-in-law, were helping me with my hair and makeup because at 5:15 AM, they were going to pick us up for the photo shoot.

We shot in three different locations. They were amazing. I cannot wait until I get the rest of the pictures so I can post them. I posted a couple of them on Instagram, and they are so beautiful because they are all in the beach. It's nice. We had a small ceremony on a beach called Lanikai Beach with my mom, Cody's mom, sisters and his brother-in-law. We had an officiant there, our photographer, and that was it.

It was pretty straightforward and simple, which is what we had dreamt of. The officiant was super amazing too. She was very spiritual in the Hawaiian culture. She chanted. She did a couple of union rituals. We were getting married. We said our vows and we cried. There was a little bit of everything, but we had a lot of fun. Costa Rica is one of my favorite destinations. I have been there four times and I love it every time. I recommend that because everything is so natural. The food tastes amazing.

There are so many animals too, even in the resort we were staying in, which was in the Arenal Volcano area. There were monkeys, sloths and every kind of bird. It was amazing. The pool in the resort and the pool we had in our room were from hot springs. Everything is so natural and so nice. It had the perfect temperature. It was warm all the time. That was one of my favorite things.

I wanted to share with you a little bit of our journey because we literally just came back. We started working on Monday, so it was a pretty quick way into work. It was funny. Another funny story is that we flew to Houston and we didn't think about the COVID test. We completely forgot that this was an international flight.

As long as you work hard, you can have the freedom you have always wanted to have. It is a very compelling future to have that freedom.

Thank God I checked the United app the day before because we were flying in United. I was trying to check-in and suddenly, I get this message that we need a negative COVID test. I'm telling you, this was Friday at 8:00 PM and we were flying on Saturday at 11:00 AM. I'm like, “We completely forgot about this COVID test requirement.”

I told Cody, and thankfully the airport had a specific location for the COVID test. That's all they do and we were able to do a quick appointment. We showed up at 6:00 AM and thankfully, we were able to come back on Saturday. I wasn’t ready. I realized something now that I have transitioned full-time into focusing on my business from my nine years of a corporate career.

I'm telling you, I love my previous corporate job. In corporate, when I would go on vacation, I was like, “I need more. I can take one more week of vacation.” It was more like, “I need a longer break.” Now that I have my business, and now that I have something that I'm super passionate about, this is something that I naturally think of most of the time, to be honest with you.

Even on vacation, I'm like, “I'm loving the vacation, but after weeks, I'm ready to go back. I'm ready to continue working on my business.” I feel the motivation. It's very different, the motivation, how you show up, how excited you get. I wanted to share that because whenever you are on the path of a purpose-driven career. It’s something that you know does where you'll achieve your highest potential in life. A purpose-driven career, to me, it's literally something that you feel a calling for.

It's something that you know deep inside of you. This is something that I fell for, as you have heard me repeat it over and over in this show. Now that I'm in it full-time because I have been in it part-time for several years, basically like in training, certifications, and my coaching business while working full-time. Now I’m in it full-time, I feel a different type of motivation.

This episode is nothing about that, or maybe a little bit about that. I wanted to give you an update on our lives. Since we have a pretty big event like getting married. Now I'm Mrs. Crawford. I left Borrego as my middle name. I will be Yanet Borrego Crawford, but I still need to do all the paperwork. That takes a little bit of time.

This episode is all about rewriting your story. It's all about you recognizing that it's never too late to rewrite your story. Let me tell you a story to illustrate this. When I was twelve years old, my mom broke the news to me that we were not going to see our family for an unlimited amount of time until we knew.

She told me, “We are not going to see our family until we don't know when, to be honest with you.” We did not know. Let me give you more context because if you don't know my story, you are probably wondering, what am I talking about? I was born in Havana, Cuba. As you may know, Cuba is a highly controlled communist country. It's a country where you cannot leave Cuba to live in another country. You always have to stay there.

The government controls your life and your actions for the most part. My mom had me when she was in Cuba. I was born in Cuba. When I was nine years old, we left Cuba to go to Mexico but it was because my stepfather had an assignment in Mexico to work for the Cuban government. This move was a legal, allowed move.

I was nine years old. We moved to Mexico. When we arrived in Mexico, everything was great. We were supposed to be there for three years, and then after three years, we were supposed to go back to Cuba because, as I have mentioned, Cuba is a highly controlled country. It’s not a country where if you were born there, you can leave and decide to live in an old country. It doesn't work that way.

Sometimes, you only have a vision. And that will be enough.

If you are born in Cuba, you stay in Cuba unless you defy the odds and the probabilities of leaving the country, which for the most part are very minimal. We moved to Mexico for three years. Three years passed. I had the best time of my life because I was able to see my family back in Cuba every now and then. I had friends in Mexico. I had a stable childhood at that time.

When I was twelve years old, it was time to go back to Cuba as planned. I remember that day like yesterday. My mom woke me up one day. My stepfather wasn't there. Just in context, their relationship was derailing. My mom had found out a few years before that he had cheated on her. She wasn't planning on staying longer.

When I was twelve years old, these three years had passed. We were supposed to go back to Cuba. My mom wakes me up and she tells me, “I need to tell you something, but this is something that is very sensitive, and you cannot tell anyone. You cannot tell your friends. We cannot tell our families. You cannot tell your stepfather. We are not going to go back to Cuba. We don't know when we'll be able to see our family again. This is something that your stepfather cannot know.” My stepfather used to work for the National Security of Cuba. It was a very sensitive topic.

At that point, if they had found out that we were trying to run away, immediately, we would have gone to jail. It’s that serious. It's very serious. My mom lives with my husband and me, but I still look at her and I'm overwhelmed by the admiration and all the courage she gathered at that moment because she had a vision.

She had a vision for me. She had a compelling future that she was walking towards. That compelling future was for me to have the freedom she didn't have back in Cuba. It was for me to have the freedom to decide what I was going to study and to earn whatever money I wanted as long as I worked hard. She had the vision of me having or being with things she could not be and do one have because of her environment.

With that vision, we ran away. It was a day before our flight to Cuba because we weren't going to go back. I remember like it was yesterday. My stepfather drank his coffee. He left the apartment. After he left, we had someone waiting for us downstairs. At this point, someone was helping us because my mom didn't have any resources to pay anyone or to do anything.

Vision

The only thing my mom had at that moment was a vision of who she wanted me to be. The only thing she wanted me to be was to have the freedom to decide that myself. That's why I'm so passionate about people rewriting their stories because I have seen it myself. I was born in a country where you don't have freedom and it's almost impossible to leave that country.

It's almost impossible to decide to be in another country and live your life there. My mom not only fought those odds even though she didn't have resources but also tapped into her resourcefulness because her vision was so much bigger than any limitations. Her vision was so much bigger than any environment she was in.

When you have a clear vision, you can do anything and everything. Something that I have realized is that as we continue to grow older, we forget dreaming. We forget imagining, and we keep reliving our past over and over. We keep living in the present through the eyes of the past, and often, we lack the ability to imagine a better future to work towards that. Imagine breaking the boundaries of your past story and creating a new reality at that moment in that present moment.

That was what my mom was doing. It's crazy to me because, honestly, when I think of the journey that I'm going through as a full-time entrepreneur, my mom never had her business or any super financial success. In my whole family, I was the person who had that financial success, having a corporate job with six figures when I was 23 years old.

Whenever you tap into that resourcefulness of who you are, walk in the alignment of it, show up consistently and you're confident, you can manifest anything else you want in life.

Isn't that crazy? It was because of one decision my mom made to rewrite her story and to rewrite our story. At the end of the day, she left everything she had financially, family, everything because she wanted the best for us and for me. She was rewriting that story and having that compelling future that moves you in the right direction that you are called into. It's so important.

Not only that, but learning how to tune in to what you want. As you tune in to what you want, visualize and imagine that for yourself. Often, we operate out of our identity. Our identity is the thoughts, beliefs, and all of the things we believe we are. These are things that we habitually repeat over and over.

We have desires and we have dreams. Those dreams are operating far away from our identity. In order to get to those dreams, you’ve got to have the courage and you’ve got to have a strong enough why, which is that compelling future, that vision to break through the identity of who you believe you are. I was having lunch with a friend, and she told me she had finished one of my favorite books, Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza.

That is exactly what we need to do. We need to overcome that momentum that we have created of relieving our past story over and over. We need to tune into the present moment and realize that now in the present, you can create your future. A future out of love, not out of fear, because often, when we think of the future, it’s to project our fears, which translate into stress and anxiety.

When you live in the present moment and you realize that you have limited potential to imagine and to create. Why? It’s because you have seen it over and over all around you. We often don't pay attention to those moments, but it's all around us. All of the people who invented things that were never invented before, the airplane and the internet, were dreamers.

Resourcefulness

What is stopping you from dreaming? Often, we believe that it's because of the resources we have or we don't have. It's not a lack of resources. It's a lack of resourcefulness. That's something that Tony Robbins believes and I truly believe that. Believe me. I'm not doing what I'm doing for money. Money is a nice addition. I plan to go far in life.

Money is a resource. Whenever you tap into that resourcefulness of who you are, and whenever you are confident in the person you want to be, you can manifest money. You can manifest anything else you want in life as long as you walk in alignment and you show up consistently. Everything is not about money. You may tell me, “I need to stay where I am because of the money.”

Maybe that is true for you right now, but let me tell you, what are you doing on the side to get out of that story that you are playing over and over? I'm telling you these because I have been there. Remember, most of it my background was my corporate career. On the side, I had this dream that I kept working on for years and years, and I knew that one day, I didn't know when that day was going to come, but one day I was going to continue rewriting my story. I wasn't going to live what I was dreaming of at that moment.

That day arrived and I'm still rewriting my story because here's the thing. Growth evolves. Your growth evolves. Your challenges evolve. Who you are evolves and that's totally okay. I have been incorporating tidbits of information here on motivation and inspiration, my perspective on what I have seen in myself, my clients and students on my digital course.

To finalize my story, when we ran away, someone picked us up. We were in Mexico City. We ran away to Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and we hid there for six months. Six months in an apartment that was the size of my office right now. It was small, and these were six months of uncertainty. For six months, we didn't know where we were going to be able to step into the United States. For six months, we were waiting on someone to let us know that it was the time.

Instead of resisting discomfort, learn to expect it. And once you know that it's going to be there, you're going to be more willing to take that step forward to your dreams.

I cannot imagine. I was twelve years old. I was a child. I cannot imagine the stress that my mom was going through inside, to be honest with you. Now that I look back and I'm like, “That is crazy.” After six months, the stars aligned, the universe aligned and they gave us a sign that it was time to cross a border of the United States. From Nuevo Leon, we went to a border, the Texas border, and we asked for political asylum. After two days of interviews and checking our background and everything else, we were granted that political asylum. Something that was a dream years before, now it was a reality.

Whenever you have a dream or an ambition that exceeds your identity, because that's going to happen, when you look forward and see that vision, that dream, that compelling future, sometimes it doesn't make rational sense. You ask yourself, “How am I going to make it?” My mom being born in Cuba, having me in Cuba, how was she going to defy the odds to make it to the United States so we could live in freedom? No idea.

She didn't have an idea, but she had a vision. In the process of following that vision, it's so important that you have faith and you have hope. Whatever expectations you have, you trade that with hope. Sometimes we tend to gain our head of how the exact step-by-step. Life doesn't work that way, and I'm going to prove it to you right now.

Have you ever been in a situation where it was a challenging situation and you didn't have an idea of how you are going to get out of it? Maybe you had an ambitious goal and you didn't have an idea of how you were going to achieve that goal. Somehow because you continued focusing on that vision and focusing on taking action as you move towards that vision, one day, it happened.

You just need one more day and one more step. I'm telling you this because, as I mentioned, when we have dreams or ambitions and we look to the path forward, it's full of uncertainty. It's full of, “I don't know how this is going to happen?” Let me tell you something. When you get there and you look back, you start realizing that every single thing that happened made sense. Not only did it make sense, but you needed to go through that exact path to get the lessons you needed to learn in order to achieve your dream, ambition, and goal.

You have all the resources you need to succeed within you already.

Discomfort

I'm sure that you have done this before, maybe on a smaller or bigger scale. It doesn't matter. If you have done it before, you have the strategy to make it happen over and over. Sometimes when we run away from rewriting our story, it’s that feeling of being uncomfortable. It’s that feeling of discomfort. It’s that feeling of being afraid. Maybe it's that feeling of being seen as starting small. Maybe it's a feeling of failure, all of these feelings and limiting beliefs that come in our way.

What has helped me a lot in this journey that I have been going through that is full of uncertainties is to learn to expect the discomfort and the fear to be there instead of resisting it. Resistance creates obsession. When you resist something, you are going to continue to manifest that. In every form, mental, emotional, physical and spiritually.

Instead of resisting it, learn to expect it. Learn that discomfort and fear are going to be there. Expect that in your mind. Once you know that it's going to be there, you are going to be more willing to take that step forward to your dreams because you are going to learn that you need to sacrifice certain things. You are going to learn that you need to sacrifice being comfortable.

Whenever you accept that, whenever there is an acceptance and surrender to it, you are going to get to that moment. It’s going to feel uncomfortable. I'm not going to lie, it still feels uncomfortable, and I put myself in uncomfortable positions every single day, so I can continue growing. It gets easier. Whenever you learn how to expect that, it becomes easier on you because you know that it will be there.

You start making fear and discomfort your BFF. You are like, “I'm here again. This means I'm getting closer to the right direction.” I want you to think, what are you waiting for? What is stopping you from rewriting your story? Maybe this is a story that you have visualized and you have been afraid to move forward with it. Maybe this is your current story that you want to rewrite in different ways because you want to show up differently. You want to embrace a new identity of yourself. Whatever that is for you, I want you to ask yourself what is stopping you from embracing the new story, from rewriting that new story?

You are never too late. My mom was 30-something when she decided to rewrite her story. Now she's still working on rewriting her story. It's the same with me. I spent nine years in corporate. I studied Chemical Engineering. It’s very different from what I love doing, which is the mindset on clarity coaching. I’m teaching all of you guys to live your best life.

When I think of what stopped me, it was fear of uncertainty, of not having the right resources, but the more I learned about the mind and the more I learned about the magic of being a human being, the more I realized you have all the resources you need to succeed within you already. Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted something so bad that you made it happen? This is exactly the same. For that, you need to define that compelling future and that vision that pulls you into that direction of hope.

Hope

Hope is one of the biggest ingredients for you to pursue your dreams. Hope and embracing the ability to dream and to create in the present moment. I hope this was so helpful because there are so many of us that are rewriting our stories as we go. There are so many of us that want to rewrite their stories, what they are afraid of.

If this is you in any way, I want you to share your story, maybe with a friend, family member, or in social media, because we need to unite our voices to continue inspiring others to do the same. Let me remind you one more time. You are never too late to rewrite your story. It’s not a lack of resources. It's a lack of resourcefulness. You have all that resourcefulness within you. I'm going to remind you again that you have all the resources you need to succeed already with yourself.

I hope this episode was super helpful. Honestly, following my dreams and transitioning full-time into what I truly love has changed me for the better. I'm so much more fulfilled, motivated, energized and empowered. I'm helping people in powerful ways. I think it can also make a difference in your life. Whatever that is for you. I'm not saying quit corporate and go full-time entrepreneurship. This is different for every single person.

Embrace you. You do you. Embrace yourself, whatever that is for you. Maybe it's not in your career. Maybe it’s in romantic relationships. Maybe it's in physical health. Whatever that is for you, decide to pursue it. I hope this episode was inspirational, motivational and empowering. If you found it helpful, please share it with someone that may benefit from it. I appreciate you. Thank you so much for sharing this journey with me. I love you all.

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