FINAL THOUGHT

YOUR VOLUME IS UP TO YOU

As you get further into your audacious adventure, you might find yourself asking, how audacious is too audacious? Can too much audacity venture into a-hole territory? Or what if I’m not audacious enough? How will I know where the line lies?

Now, without giving the classic vague consulting answer (“It depends”), the answer is . . . well, shoot—it depends. Channeling your BDE for maximum positive results comes down to how you respond to barriers, red lights, and roadblocks standing in your way. Maybe you need to turn your audacity down to slowly go around a fallen tree. Maybe you need to turn it up to pass a super-slow car in front of you. Like deciding to turn up the tunes for a road trip sing-along or turning down the music for a soothing dinner party background—your volume is up to you. It’s subjective. It’s personal. And only you can decide what it is. And it also varies! You’d get a headache listening to even your favorite jams at full blast for hours and hours on end. But more often than not, there’s a good chance that you might need to dial up your BDE a notch. You might need to turn up your truth. Turn up your courage. Turn up your resolve. Turn up your creativity. Because the audacious woman in you knows that it is your choice and your choice only to take that knob and dial it to a unique volume that empowers you to show up as your most powerful, authentic, divine, Big Deal self.

And if people don’t like it?

Well, with all due respect, they can just kiss your audacity.