Years ago I was doing a production of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ — picture this…

It is the night when every investor in the theatre guild comes to the show — lot’s of pressure with this particular show and the thing that NEVER happens to me happens…

I’m sick as a dog and more than that…I barely have a voice and the part I play sings the entire story to the audience for 90 minutes…

YIKES!

I’m a trooper…I’ll push past the point when most people are smart enough to stop…but this was different.

I called the producers to my dressing room and told them my voice was almost completely gone and that I didn’t think I would be able to deliver 100%…

They insisted that I go on and agreed to do whatever it took to make that happen INCLUDING lowering some keys, changing a few endings and having some people double my voice in certain sections…

IT WAS CRAZY!

There was a point right before stage when I felt so defeated that my head dropped down and I watched tears hit the floor in front of me…

It was right at that moment that the stage manager walked around the corner…

He put his arm around me and asked me if I was ok…

I told him that it was killing me that on this big night I was no where near 100%…

And then he said it…and this thing he said changed my life in that moment and then again the next day…

This is what he said, “Kristen, relax…you need to realize that your 50% is most people’s 100%.”

WOW…

Ok…here’s how it changed my life that night…

It gave me the courage to go out there and know that for that night, 50% was going to be enough.

Here’s how it changed my life the next day…

I realized that I NEVER again wanted to live my life at 50% just because I could get away with it.

Here’s the thing…

Sometimes all you have is 50% and that’s enough!

BUT

When you have 100% to give and you only give 50% because no one will notice…

Who are you really hurting?

Are you getting away with something or are you stealing from yourself?

Leave me a comment right now and tell me if you are ready to give 100% even if you can get away with less…

Leave me a comment and tell me why you MUST live at the 100% version of yourself…

Do it now…this is your life and you deserve for it to be extraordinary!

Go Big!

Kristen