Hi, please call me Selah. I live in Washington state (USA). I’ve been in a transition phase after burning out from self-employment during COVID, where I started a business without a solid plan. I’m passionate about organizational development and performance improvement. Feel free to ask me anything—I love researching and problem-solving (it’s my favorite procrastination tactic!! 😄). My past business focused on home improvements, so I can help with that too. I hope this community helps me: 1. TAKE ACTION – I have many plans and the necessary supplies, but I struggle with consistent execution. For example, I’ve been planning a bathroom renovation but haven’t started due to fear of inconsistency. 2. FIND MYSELF AGAIN – I don’t like who I’ve become in the past 6-8 years and want to reconnect with my community-oriented, active self. For fun, I enjoy: • Being outdoors (hiking, running, biking) • Creating (building, drawing, painting, woodworking, gardening, writing) • Laughing 😊 Picture is of my two dogs, Jasmine (left) and Brody (right), soon to be 15 y.o. and 13 y.o. Photo was taken somewhere in North Dakota, thus the giant bale of hay. 😊

Tell me where are you from and a fun fact about where you are from!!! I'm from Colorado the only state entirely above 1,000 feet elevation — it’s literally the “highest” state in the U.S.!

I wasn't able to join at 3am my time 😅 but I just watched the video and worked through the questions with the AI. It's got a lovely tone, incidentally. Very kind and encouraging. 🧠 Biggest insight: I struggle with moving forward with things that really matter to me because I internalised that perfection was a requirement for acceptance as a child, and I am personally responsible for foreseeing and mitigating every threat, including other people's feelings, reactions, and choices. It sounds ridiculous on the page, but you know what's more ridiculous? Putting the responsibility for regulating grown adults on a six year old child. ⚡️ My open loop is: cutting back aggressive large plants threatening to break my garden bed. 💛 One word for how I feel right now: Overwhelmed.

🧠 Biggest insight: In the daily questions, I wrote a bit about my athletic history as a former marathoner and triathlete. My life was very routined and, while I never loved the rigidity of routine, I loved knowing how to go about my days. While a schedule was sometimes exhausting, it was also what allowed me to perform - at school, at sport, at work. The AI insight that stood out to me in response to what I shared is: “The system you built your entire life around was never actually discipline - it was a protective strategy, a way of controlling enough variables to keep moving forward. When that structure collapsed, every tool in your toolkit stopped working because they were all built on the same foundation.” ⚡️ My open loop is: schedule a doctor’s appointment 💛 One word for how I feel right now: I wrote about this in today’s questions :). Clearly identifying feelings is hard for me because I’m not sure I’m ever feeling just one thing at a time, so when I try to come up with one word, it’s often “overwhelmed.”