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Don't Allow It

  • The Leader's Refinery
  • 3 days ago
  • 4 min read

Don't allow another year to come and go without becoming who you really desire to become.


Not the safer version. Not the one everyone expects. Not the woman who waits for permission, validation, or the perfect conditions.


The one you see when you close your eyes and imagine what's possible.


December Doesn't Mean Winding Down


Most leaders treat December as denouement; a gentle fade into holiday mode, a collective exhale before the machine starts again in January.


But what if December is actually your most strategic month?


Not for planning. Not for goal-setting. Not for another vision board that gets filed away by February.


For reinvention.


For closing the gap between who you are and who you're becoming. For stepping into her now; not when the promotion is granted, not when the client signs, not when you've lost the weight or built the team or proven yourself one more time.


Now.


Because here's what most of us miss: we cannot become that version of ourselves if we never step into who she is.


Living "As If"


This isn't about pretending. It's about operating from the identity you're building, not the one you're leaving behind.


What does that look like in practice?


Does it look like taking on the project that stretches you; leading it as if you already have the title you're pursuing?


Does it look like asking for that pitch meeting and walking in like you know they can't refuse?


Does it look like working out and eating as if you've already lost the weight, because that's who she is, and you're her now?


Does it mean having the conversation with the team member who isn't the right fit, from a place of done, not from a place of hoping it will somehow resolve itself?


Does it look like declining the meeting that doesn't serve the business you're building, even though the old version of you would have said yes?


Does it look like pricing your next proposal from the authority you're stepping into, not the one that still needs to prove its worth?


Your actions are the truth-teller. Not your intentions. Not your plans. What you do reveals who you actually are.


So if you want to become her, you have to act like her. Decide like her. Show up like her. Now.


This Is Your Invitation to Reinvent


December is permission.


Permission to evaluate your identity and say yes to the version that's been waiting.


Permission to audit your actions and to understand what they're revealing about your character and values. Are they aligned with who you're becoming, or are they keeping you tethered to who you were?


Permission to say yes to creativity, even when it feels vulnerable or unfamiliar or like you might get it wrong.


Permission to design the culture and atmosphere that invites the experience you actually want instead of the one you've been tolerating.


Permission to build community or push yourself to become part of one; to stop operating in isolation and start embracing belonging, ritual, shared excellence.


Permission to align your inner and outer worlds; to stop performing one version of yourself externally while knowing internally you're meant for something else.


Permission to audit your friendships and relationships. Not everyone gets to come with you into the next chapter. Some people are meant for a season. Some are anchoring you to a version of yourself you're outgrowing. It's not cruel to acknowledge that. It's essential.


Permission to operate from yes; yes to alignment, yes to growth, yes to discomfort in service of becoming.


Permission to build the muscle for identifying misalignment faster and acting immediately to get out of it. Not next quarter. Not when it's more convenient. Now.


The Cost of Waiting


Another year will pass.


You'll be good at your job. You'll deliver results. You'll check the boxes. And you'll still feel the quiet ache of knowing you're capable of more.


Not more productivity. Not more revenue, necessarily.


More alignment. More presence. More of who you actually are.


The woman you're becoming doesn't wait for external validation to behave like her. She doesn't rehearse. She performs.


She doesn't wait for the title to lead like a CRO. She leads now.


She doesn't wait for the weight to fall off to treat her body with reverence. She does it now.


She doesn't wait for the perfect moment to have the hard conversation. She has it now.


She doesn't wait for permission to reinvent. She gives it to herself.


What If You Could Write This Next Chapter Exactly the Way You Wanted?


What if you could step into 2026 feeling invigorated, inspired, excited for what's coming?


What if you could find beauty in both mapping it out and allowing it to unfold the way it's meant to?


This requires living "as if."


As if the promotion is already granted. As if the big client already signed. As if you're already running an empire.


Not as delusion. As embodiment.


Because the version of you that achieves those things? She's not waiting on the other side of them. She's the reason they happen.


The Membership opens twice yearly for women ready to close the gap between who they are and who they're becoming. If you're done rehearsing and ready to step fully into your next chapter, join the membership.

 
 
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