Hello Apartment Friends it’s me Leslie Mathis with the Multifamily Streamlined Podcast. Well I missed last week because I was traveling on a Monday and basically wasn’t prepared for life and now today I’m pretty sure I am not firing on all cylinders. Crazy I tested positive for Covid last Thursday – still positive but feel basically fine… but it robbed me of attending my Rise Up Girls event, now it cancelled my Charlotte trip where I had a photoshoot for my website scheduled and a small dinner party with my closest friends. And now y’all it’s trying to steal the joy of my birthday on Thursday. GEEZ okay okay I know it could be worse. My observation from Covid is the harm it does from the isolation. I’ve been at my home since 12:36 pm on Thursday the 19th and have not hugged anyone since Wednesday evening at approximately 9:30 pm the 18th. I don’t think any of us are meant to go that long without a hug. The stray cat hates hugs but I give them anyways and my Goldendoodle Henry is ALWAYS up for a hug thankfully but even after the last several days he might be tired of my hugs. I just keep thinking what I would I do if I didn’t have Henry. That was probably my biggest disappointment of me missing my event – there were 47 girls there I didn’t get to hug! Maybe the most ironic part of getting Covid is probably I hugged 47 people the day before I tested positive for Covid. Thankfully none of them have gotten it or shown symptoms.
So anyways I did have a true topic for you today and of course it has been on my mind for a while. You all know I have been showing up more on social and so I started recording videos for social too – it all started one day because I had a great blowout – thought dang I can do this when my hair looks good. Then I got on a roll and did several that day and then a few more the following and so forth. Y’all I would even change my shirt so things would look different. Started calling it my perch since I did them all right in the same spot. My thing is my hair – if it looks good I can conquer the world – most times when my hair is good I don’t even care about make-up but then I realized. That was truly because of my glasses. I started finding myself hiding behind my glasses. Hiding my puffy eyes, darks circles, wrinkles – you know the things you don’t like that rob you of your confidence. THOSE THINGS! I have TONS of glasses and now can’t read without them. I like having all the cute ones too in fun colors. But on calls – virtual meetings – and now videos I found myself hiding behind them. And I realized so many of us are hiding behind something and it’s just might be the very thing holding you back.
I sat on this thought a while and the first thought I had was how so many people say they are bad at math and then in our industry the next thing that leads to is a fear of financials. You don’t have to be able to do calculus to have a good understanding of our financials. And guess what there’s this thing called a calculator – you can punch in $1500-$437 to get the answer. My guess is when we have a fear or a lack of confidence we create the excuse that holds us back. But how do we fix that – for me that is spending more time doing the thing that scares me.
