Powerful You! Women's Network

By Margaret Lynch

 One of my favorite movies contains one of those moments…an “aha moment” that changes forever the course of the star’s live. The movie is called The Holiday and stars Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. 

The story is about two women who meet online and decide to trade homes for the holiday to escape their bad relationship patterns. One of the main characters, Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet), is a society column editor for The Daily Telegraph in London. Iris has been hopelessly, pathetically in love with office mate Jasper Bloom for over three years, even though she broke up with him after he cheated on her with another girl in the office. 

Still stringing her along to the very last minute, Jasper announces his engagment to the other girl at the office Christmas party. Iris is a broken, sobbing, inconsolable mess! Getting away seems like the perfect solution.

While in LA, Iris meets an elderly neighbor named Arthur and learns that he was an Emmy-winning script writer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is a retired man and a widower and lives a solitary life, so she asks if he would like to accompany her for dinner. He amazes Iris with dashing tales of the Golden Age of Hollywood and asks why she chooses to be alone spending a time with such an old man.

When she tells him about her pining love for the cheating and engaged Jasper, Arthur delivers an incredibly kind and poignant wake up call. He tells Iris that in movies generally there is a leading lady and there is "the best friend". Iris, who is supposed to be the leading lady, is behaving like "the best friend". 

“WHY?!” he says, “WHY are you playing the supporting actress in your own movie? YOU are the leading lady! Go out there and BE a leading lady!”

Iris is blown away, and you feel the moment. (Oh…and the Cameron Diaz romance with beautiful Jude Law is pretty fabulous, too).

We spend a lot of time playing the supporting actor in our own movie don’t we? I did it until I was 30! Playing small, scurrying around for someone else, INSISTING “I don’t mind”, while I worked like a slave and cut my own hair to “save the money for something more worthy” than me. 

And in some ways, I didn’t mind because being a bigger bolder ME seems scary and totally foreign. At least I knew exactly what to do every day, and if I didn’t someone told me!

 But after a while, it wore on me…it wears on you doesn’t it? It’s exhausting to NOT play yourself, draining and really no fun at all. And people will often not mind at all, saying “thank you” and just keep letting you scurry and sacrifice, they often hardly notice!

I wish I had met a wise, old Arthur to wake me up! But my moment happened while I was pregnant and I realized I was about to become a role model for playing a supporting actress in the movie of my live. I could not do that to my child, I HAD to become a leading lady so she could someday. 

So, have you had your moment yet? Did you listen? It’s time right now, maybe that’s why you are reading this! STEP UP into the leading role! Yes, it takes courage, YES, there can be more “at risk”, YES there will be challenges and it is so worth it. To feel ALIVE, empowered and sparkling on the center stage of your movie…letting the cameras follow YOU…that is the most unbelievable feeling in the world. 

And when you share the starring miracle that is you, the whole world (your audience) takes a journey with you joy, passion and empowerment! 

Let’s do some tapping on that! 

Start tapping on the Karate Chop point:

Even though I have been playing the “best friend” character in my own movie, a secondary, supporting role, I love and honor myself right now.

Even though I say I would love to be the leading lady/man, I know exactly how to play this lesser character and I know the role perfectly! (and my audience has cast me this way, they won’t like it if I change) 

Even though I feel stuck in role that is small, under the radar, practically invisible, I am afraid to seem too full of myself, too selfish…nobody likes a diva! This is a conflict! 

Continue tapping through the points:

This role is what I know

I don’t have to be responsible for the whole movie!

That’s a lot of responsibility that I am letting others carry

For my life, my happiness, my individuality

I am letting others , and the rules of the script, run my movie

I really pine to step into center stage

I would love to be the star for once

But it’s hard and I feel stuck

Besides no one else wants to change roles! 

But this is my one movie, my life!

And it’s rolling by on the screen

And I am born to star in it, it was custom made for me!

But while I play small, it’s gone off track

and feels like a weekly repeat of a B sitcom! 

Same script, no progress…I am DONE with this!

I literally do and say the same things every week!

I am stepping up, I’m the leading lady/man Dang it!

I am running the show, I am taking the lead!

I am placing my feet on the group 

Letting my first chakra swell with solid grounded energy and power

And I am building on that foundation with desire

with excitement, with enthusiasm 

I am putting my foot down! It’s my time now!

I am building on that foundation with a healthy script of
“I deserve to be the LEAD!”

Thundering in my voice!

I am letting that big energy flow up through my system

Through all my chakras

With passion, power, enthusiasm and charisma

That is my BIRTHRIGHT! 

I am totally owning it …RockStar style!

This is my movie and I am rocking it

I am the leading lady/man! 

Watch out here I come! 

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Warmly,

Margaret

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Margaret M. Lynch is an accomplished Success Coach, author and is widely considered a top Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT®) expert. Margaret is passionate about waking people up to stand more powerfully alive, on-fire and enthusiastically in their lives and in their mission.

She brings her transformational work to thousands of people from all over the globe through her wildly popular teleclasses programs, live events and as a frequent expert guest on radio and success focused events and summits.

Margaret’s unique style of EFT, known simply as “tapping”, focuses on breaking through blocks around money and personal power blended with world class teachings of the chakras, consciousness and law of attraction.

Margaret is the author of the highly acclaimed book and tapping program “Secret of Intentional Wealth” and creator of the “Tapping for Money Boot Camps”.

Her brand new program “The 7 Levels of Wealth Manifestation” is a unique blend of tapping with the groundbreaking teachings of the chakras from her partner Rhys Thomas.

Margaret draws on her rich experiential and educational background to bring a down to earth practical balance to her teachings. Before her work as a Success Coach, she compiled 18+ years in management and executive sales as part of top Fortune 500 companies. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and certifications in both EFT (Gary Craig Certification) and Hypnotherapy. She is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) and a former member of Business Networking International (BNI).
 

Visit www.margaretmlynch.com
  

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