Yvonne’s Crazy Adventure December 7, 2025 · Women's Empowerment Community

Yvonne’s Crazy Adventure December 7, 2025

Morning thoughts – creating videos

How is it that creating two 1 minute videos can be more stressful than setting up a funnel?

Both are skills that were outside of my comfort zone, and I figured out funnels with a lot of help. But with a funnel, I could ask for help, use a template, look it up with ChatGPT, watch a video on YouTube, etc.

But with a video, it’s all me. It’s practice, practice, practice. And I have not put in the practice, so why would I expect everything to go perfectly. Oh, we all know it’s not going to go perfectly no matter what, so I need to wrap my head around that.

I am doing this summit messy because it’s important for me to share the messages of these other women. If I don’t get out of my comfort zone, I cannot help other women. I know so many are just like me, and that they’re in survival mode and they just don’t know what to do.

And it’s worse than that, they think everything has gone sideways in their life because of them. They might be the common denominator, but all that is is a sign of where we need to grow. It is not a bad thing, it’s simply what life is all about. If we had a test to write, we would study and learn the material, maybe have a tutor or teacher help us. But when it comes to life lessons, it’s simply not that clear and not that simple.

I’ve said it 100 times, we are here on earth to learn lessons and grow- to discover who we really are and to truly learn that we are 100% complete and everything is already inside of us. We are the source in the world around us is our resources.

And resources can be people in our life that are giving us lessons. All kinds of experiences - until we learn whatever God’s lesson is for us. I’m pretty stubborn, okay very stubborn, and sometimes I have to take the lesson multiple times until it truly registers.

And these lessons come to us in a lot of different ways from a lot of different people. Lessons that you are good enough, you are strong, you are powerful, you are source.

We come to earth to live life, and living includes all the good, the bad, the ugly - everything. So my new philosophy has been to embrace all of it, call it a crazy adventure, and see what happens.

And since I made that decision, a lot has happened. But I can tell you one thing for sure, embracing it is so much more fulfilling and so much less stressful than just trying to survive it.

When we are in survival mode, we are tense, rigid, we have blinders on. Things usually don’t go our way when that’s our state. The tree bends in the wind when a storm comes. It’s flexible. If it was tense and rigid, its branches would snap off and it would have a lot more damage done to it.

Our society has us living in a very stressful and busy world, where most people are running around barely surviving. And what’s even crazier is most people are completely unaware of this. You have to get out of survival mode to realize you’re even in it in the first place. It’s quite the catch 22.

But you have to be ready to come out of survival mode. You’ve had to have that mindset shift of realizing where you are is just simply no longer acceptable. When you’re in survival mode, but you are comfortable enough, usually you don’t want to make changes.

It’s when you get where you are no longer willing to accept being comfortably uncomfortable that change can happen. When you have just enough, you are not likely to change, but when you simply do not have enough, and I’m talking basic needs - not fancy accessories… I found in my case, it was when my emotional needs of safety and belonging were no longer being met that I knew I had to shift. My physical needs were being met as far as food, clothing and shelter, but I was never at peace. I felt stiff and trapped. One of my values is sovereignty, and this was a total clash. It was when I was forced out of my home, and decided to live consciously, and not in survival mode, that I realized just how misaligned my life was to my values.

Of course, we go through stages, especially when we’re a single mom. We have to look after our kids, so our needs are different. And our children’s needs must be considered. Once my kids moved out, and it was only me, my perspective completely shifted.

But you only recognize this if you put yourself in a different environment - and usually a much quieter one. I recommend car camping for two months. Okay it could be regular camping. But going out in nature by yourself, with no distractions, and breathing it all in – that is when you can quiet your mind and find what’s hiding inside of you.

Those of us who are pretty sure we have undiagnosed neurodivergence have a very difficult time quieting our mind. Journalling and writing, as well as walking meditations in nature, work wonders for this. One of the best tricks I found was opening a Google document and talking into my phone to get all those thoughts out of my head. Sometimes I simply couldn’t write fast enough.

It’s not about throwing all those thoughts away, but some of them should be trashed, especially if it’s negative self-talk. But this is the time when I am most creative. My talk will start off more practical, and I will set an intention, but as soon as I get all the boring, mundane to do list and clutter out of my brain and into a document because I’m worried I’ll forget it, that’s when the connection with my higher power and automatic writing occurs.

You guys have been reading my morning thoughts for a while and sometimes I just need to do a brain dump. But I can’t explain how much doing these morning thoughts has helped me. It’s like I start my morning in a better mindset. My thoughts are much more clear and I am more productive, especially when it comes to learning things like tech - funnels to be exact.

Shifting my mindset from “I can’t do this.” to “ Okay, how can I do this?” really helped. Also breaking tasks down into very small pieces. I cannot stress this enough. When I read this was something neurodivergents struggled with, it made a lot of sense. If I look at a page with 100 directions, I can’t even get started. But if I just have three steps on the page, or one step if it’s complicated and needs a diagram, I’m able to handle it much better.

That’s what I had to do with the funnels. I just had to go through each step until I thoroughly understood why I was doing that step. Once it had meaning to me, I could figure things out. That is how I learn. It’s not that I’m slow, it’s that when it’s something I don’t understand I’m slow to learn it, but then I never forget. Other things I’m super quick at learning. It simply depends on what the task is.

A great example of this is that grammar and editing came much easier to me than creative writing. But I found when I settle my brain, the creativity flows. What I did not know until a couple years ago, was that these tasks use the opposite sides of the brain.

And that’s why you should never create and edit together. Even Mike said on the mastermind call yesterday that you should not create your videos and edit them on the same day because it uses a different side of your brain. So it’s not just writing, it’s any creating. Let yourself have a creative day, and then edit on another day.

I throw all of this into my Google document in the morning, but I don’t edit it until later. I never feel like editing it as soon as I get up, and now I am understanding a little bit more why that is. It’s simply how the brain works.

Time to get up and go get ready for church…

Well, it’s 1am and I am still working away. It was the darn videos that got me. How can two 1-minute videos take 6 hours to record and edit, put on YouTube, then copy the link into my funnel? I tried using a teleprompter and chatGPT, but it was even worse. I’m just going to have to practice. I still haven’t recorded my interview, but at least I know what my topic is, and I’m using notes no matter what. Part of the issue is where the camera is on the iPad - I’m just going to have to work at remembering to look at the side because an iPad is what I’ve got. My computer is still in the UHaul storage unit…

When I tested my funnel the campaign emails weren’t being triggered. I spent so much time trying to figure it out, then at 9:20 pm tonight, they went out. I have no idea what happened there, but I stopped trying to figure it out.

I have my Sunday Short Story to write, and my newsletters to send out. The Let’s Talk About… zoom wil be postponed until next week because of the summit. I will do last week's topic because we were too busy.

At least the cats are keeping me company…

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