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UPW DAY 2: Momentum, Grace and  the Power of Decision

October 11, 20258 min read

🩷 UPW DAY 2: Momentum, Grace & the Power of Decision

1️⃣ The Morning Shift — Awakening Your Inner Fire 🔥

How a simple morning moment of gratitude and movement reconnected me to my purpose and strength before stepping into Day 2.


2️⃣ Momentum, Not Mercy — The Science of Progress 🚀

The lessons from Tony and Joseph on how clarity, strategy, and feedback create unstoppable growth — and how I felt them come alive in me.


3️⃣ Meet the Gap — Where I Truly Am vs. Where I Will Be 🌗

The vulnerable truth of where my life is now in love, work, and self — and how the “Closing the Gap” exercise opened my eyes to my next level of alignment.


4️⃣ The Moment a Decision Becomes Grace 🌟

That one instant when thinking stops, and the soul decides. The divine moment I said “I was made for this” and felt grace move through me.


5️⃣ Taking the First Steps in Flow — Tiny Moves, Big Impact 🛤️

How I turned my decision into small, joyful, aligned actions — the foundation of my Empower Your Soul business and a life led by peace and power.


6️⃣ My Commitments from Day 2 — My New Rhythm & Legacy 💖

The vows I made to myself — to lead with love, to share with courage, and to live as a strong soul in a strong body.


🌸 Epilogue — The Invitation

A call from my heart to yours: to rise, to remember, and to embody your own strength, grace, and feminine power.


1. The Morning Shift — Awakening Your Inner Fire 🔥

I woke up earlier than usual, heart pounding with anticipation. Day 2 of UPW was calling me. The memory of Day 1’s breakthroughs — the firewalk, the shaking off of old limitations — still hummed through my body. I felt a mixture of awe, hunger, and nervousness.

I reminded myself: I was made for this. That phrase had begun to echo from deep inside me, like a drumbeat waking up that part of me that remembered strength before fear. My body felt alive. Even in the quiet of the morning, I stood in front of the mirror, hands over my heart, and breathed for three long cycles. I whispered my declaration:

“I was made for this. I was made to rise. I was made to lift — body, energy, family, world. I am the Empower Your Soul Coach. A strong soul in a strong body.”

That moment marked the line. I stepped into Day 2 determined not to hear inspiration — but to be it.


2. Momentum, Not Mercy — The Science of Progress 🚀

Day 2 is called Momentum Day for a reason. We came off the emotional and energetic surge from Day 1, and now the teaching is clear: we don’t rest on breakthroughs, we build from them.

Joseph McClendon led us into the Ultimate Success Formula, adapted for alignment and expansion:

  1. Clarity — What exactly do I want?

  2. Compelling Why — Why must I have it?

  3. Massive Action — What steps will I commit to?

  4. Sensory Awareness — What feedback am I receiving?

  5. Adapt & Pivot — If one strategy fails, shift your approach.

We were called to break patterns — interrupt the old loops that kept us safe and small. Change only comes when we force ourselves to think and feel differently.

One of the most vivid exercises: feeling the future as if it’s already here — then visualizing it being taken away, to stir up that pull. You feel loss, urgency, hunger. You taste the life you want. And then you say: “I cannot live without this purpose.”

I remember tears in my eyes, electricity in my veins. That was the turning point: not a wish, not hope — a demand from my soul to my life: Show up fully or don’t show up at all.


3. Meet the Gap — Where I Truly Am vs. Where I Will Be 🌗

One of the exercises of the day was “Closing the Gap” — mapping out, in every area, where we are now and where we intend to be. That painful, illuminating chart becomes a bridge, not a guilt trap.

Here’s how it looked in my life:

Where I am now (Love & Connection):
– Tired. Running on duty.
– My husband and I barely find moments to play.
– My children sense my distraction more than my presence.
– I feel stretched; love feels like another item on the list.

Where I want to be:
– Intimacy, joy, laughter, and softness in my marriage.
– A home where we train, dance, dream together.
– Love flowing in ease, not friction.
– My strong soul leading with feminine energy in every moment.

That mapping brought clarity: This is not about chasing love — it’s about aligning to receive it.

In business, I mapped similarly:

Now: ideas, passion, fear of exposing my process
Vision: Empower Your Soul brand, clients 35+, content flowing
Conflicts revealed: Perfectionism, fear of judgment, lack of marketing muscle

Every time I looked at the gap, I felt not overwhelm — but motivation. Because I know that alignment plus tiny brave moves collapses distance.


4. The Moment a Decision Becomes Grace 🌟

One of the most sacred teachings of Day 2 is that decisions are destiny-makers. But not every decision sticks. Only the one made from certainty — when mind, heart, body, and soul align — becomes a force that cannot be broken.

I remember standing in a circle in the event hall. Joseph’s voice echoed:

“Decide. Commit. Resolve. Not from fear, but from identity. Not tomorrow — now.”

In that moment, something in me shifted. The residues of past indecisions, whispers of doubt, old stories about “not enough” — I released them. I said:

“I decide to stand in my brand: Empower Your Soul Coach.
I decide to share my story openly, to lift women from invisibility.
I decide to live from peace, not drive.
I decide to amplify my message with presence, love, clarity.”

It felt like grace entered my bones. I didn’t think it — it was. That shift became the anchor for every choice I’ll make from now on.


5. Taking the First Steps in Flow — Tiny Moves, Big Impact 🛤️

After the decision, we were guided into action. Joseph emphasized: massive action doesn’t equal massive stress. The key is intelligent alignment — steps that feel alive, not forced.

Here’s my personal “first step blueprint” born that day:

  • Create one short video sharing part of my journey (raw, real)

  • Write one blog or post about menopause, strength, soul

  • Invite my husband to train with me this week — even 20 minutes

  • Journal “what broke me, what healed me” as a public post

  • Send one DM to a woman who inspired me — begin connection

  • Use Sundays to reflect and choose one “linchpin move” for the coming week

I realized: flow isn’t lazy. It’s fierce softness. It’s strength with ease. And when every next move is anchored in purpose and presence, momentum becomes inevitable.


6. My Commitments from Day 2 — My New Rhythm & Legacy 💖

When I closed that day, I made internal contracts — not to people, but to my future self:

  • I will declare my truth daily — “I was made for this.”

  • I will lead from love first — not hustle.

  • I will lift women through story, strength, and healing.

  • I will build a life that’s my own altar of strength, softness, and service.

  • I will choose presence over perfection.

  • I will master the art of rest, ritual, and boundaries.

  • I will measure progress by joy, connection, energy — not only metrics.

That night, I laid down in my bed — exhausted, exhilarated. My body remembered what the soul already knew. The days ahead would demand more of me — more courage, more clarity, more surrender. But I felt ready.


🌱 Epilogue & Invitation

I share this because I want you to see: up close, transformation is messy, terrifying, and magnificent all at once. It’s not in the fireworks — it’s in showing up again after you’ve walked on fire.

So I invite you — whether you’ve ever done a Tony Robbins event, a training, or not — to join me. Let’s brave the gap. Let’s remember our power. Let’s transform from core.

If you resonate with it, if you are a woman 35+ navigating strength, hormones, or reinvention — I see you. I will walk with you. Because I was made for this — and so were you.


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With love,

Diana
Empower Your Soul Coach. 🌸 A strong soul in a strong body.


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