I've Officially Written 4 Chapters
I’m not much of a “word of the year” girl, but this year, one word that kept coming up for me at the beginning was patience.
I remember thinking, “God, really? Can I have any other word besides patience?”
Because you know it’s not just Him giving you patience—it’s Him placing you in situations that build it.
Patience? Great.
The process of building patience? Eh… I could do without.
But it got me thinking…
What I think
As many of you know, I’m in the process of writing my first book. As I looked at my totals, I currently have15,981 words and 33 hours spent researching and writing…
…and I’ve only finished four chapters(oomph).
But in real time, it’s teaching me patience.
I can’t rush it. I just have to surrender to the process.
Yes, I could easily throw my ideas into ChatGPT and have it spit out a full book in about 10 minutes—but that’s not only lazy, it lacks integrity, and it wouldn’t even truly be written by me.
It’s also retraining my brain in patience.
When I sit down to write, I set a timer for one hour. I’m not allowed to look at my phone, emails, or any other tabs on my computer until that hour is complete.
It sounds easy—but it’s harder than you think.
I can feel my brain wanting to task-hop to something else, but I know that if I give in, I’m training my brain to have poor focus—and therefore, less patience.
We live in a world where the average attention span is around8 seconds.
What people don’t realize is that as they shorten their attention span through scrolling and endless quick hits of dopamine, they’re literally changing how their brain is wired.
They’re training the opposite of patience.
They’re training dopamine addiction.
In the 1950s, historians estimate that people could focus on a single task for15–45 minutes straight. I’d bet if you tried that now, you’d have to be very intentional about not letting your brain drift.
But here’s the good news:
You can train patience and focus—just like anything else.
The one degree shift
Set your timer for 45 minutes and only do ONE thing.
No scrolling. No texts back. No phone calls.
Train your patience this week.
Want to learn more?
Thisepisodeis your reminder that more isn’t always better. After a weekend of women stepping outside their comfort zones and choosing growth, I break down something that often gets overlooked in the pursuit of “doing more” — recovery.
Because the truth is, your body doesn’t differentiate between stress. Training, work, relationships, lack of sleep… it all stacks. And when that stress outweighs your ability to recover, that’s where things start to fall apart.
In this episode, I walk through the stress + recovery equation and why growth only happens when both are in balance. She shares her own wake-up moments, from pushing too hard to dealing with hormonal issues, and how that shifted the way she approaches training, health, and life.
