Change, Choice and Commitment w/ Tara Hall

Written by: Tara Hall

What is a life unfulfilled? Maybe it’s a dream that has not yet been attained. Or, one you are still soul searching.

Have you ever asked yourself that question or just wondered why others around you seem to “have it all” or get all the “good breaks?” Either way, you must know you are still in control of the outcome for your life and it’s certainly not too late to adjust the sails. Change is choice! And, once you make that choice, stay committed to the action required to realizing it. Some have given up before it’s been given the right amount of time to take hold.

I know this because it’s exactly where I was approximately 5 years ago. From outward appearances my life was intact i.e. the career, family, home, cars and marriage. All the things we tend to pray for to create that sense of stability.

Yet and still, there was something inside that was unfulfilled and I kept saying internally that there was more in and for me. Have you ever felt that way? If so, you are absolutely not alone. I knew one day I wanted to have a business. In what? I didn’t know and I wanted to inspire people. Who? I didn’t know either.

It wasn’t until I took inventory right about the time I was entering graduate school in 2011 when I had finally achieved a personal goal of mine dating back 19 years prior. When I crossed the stage in 2015, in front of over 13,000 people to be one of the 1200 graduates that Tuesday evening, I realized change, choice and commitment helped me finally achieve that goal! Once I put down the excuses, pushed fear aside and took action, I arrived at a place I wanted to be.

What’s the relevance of me sharing this? I want women to know that it’s really ok to forgive yourself for not acting sooner, or behaving out of alignment with where you know you should be or for putting your gift aside as if it doesn’t matter when it really does. However, it’s not ok to know something new, then do nothing with or about it. When we know better, we tend to do better. If we take a good long look in the mirror and confront ourselves with what we know to be true, like I had to do, we can make the necessary adjustments with the sails in our life to commit to new actions, behaviors and visions for our future.

Give yourself the permission first, bless and release the past because that was the lesson for your next season.

Now, over 10 years later since graduation day, life drastically changed. I now assist others with a simple equation I learned a few years ago through my training. This equation is the foundational formula towards your success…E+R=O. It’s recognizing that we have no control over life’s (E)vents, however the (R)esponse to those events is where our power is held. That power rests in our thoughts, behaviors and image of our future. This is how we deter-

Take this simple formula as a stepping stone to “Springing Forward” to your next. It has helped me to get from thinking about a business to launching a training and development one in 2019, from submitting my first publication as part of a book anthology in 2018 to publishing my book in 2020 and now to publishing my third book project in 2021 which includes 11 female leaders who share their stories of perseverance.

Would you believe me if I told you, I never thought any of this was possible? I certainly did NOT, yet I continued to believe and imagine my future looking and feeling differently.

I always heard people say if “I can do it, you can do it” but I didn’t believe it until I became one of the people doing it. Take the inspired action to go from unfulfilled to living out loud with your dreams. Find a community of support, get connected to someone who can catapult your goals alongside you.

There are no secrets to success but there are key principles to get you there. As a certified success trainer and coach, I work the principles because they work. Now it’s time for you to go to work! Cheers to your success and live that fulfilled life you have envisioned.

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