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This Isn’t About Balance. It’s About Boldness.

  • Heidi Schmitz Colombo
  • Jul 24
  • 2 min read

Updated: Aug 3

For years, we’ve been told to chase balance. Balance your work and your life.Balance your ambition with humility. Balance your dreams with what’s “realistic.”

But what if balance is just a well-dressed version of fear?


What if “balance” has become the socially acceptable way we hold ourselves back?

Because let’s be honest—balance didn’t build empires. Balance didn’t write bestselling books, heal hearts, start movements, or change legacies.


Boldness did.


Balance Keeps You Comfortable. Boldness Sets You Free.

“Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.” ~Bob Proctor 

But none of that—purpose, vision, goals—can come to life without a bold decision.

The language we use matters. When you keep saying:

  • “I just need to find balance…”

  • “I’ll make a move once things calm down…”

  • “It’s not the right time to go all in…”

Your subconscious mind hears: pause, play small, wait for permission.

Instead, shift your language—because words shape identity:

  • “I’m building what I’m born for.”

  • “I create alignment, not balance.”

  • “I decide how I show up.”

Your nervous system will catch up to your conviction.


You Weren’t Meant to Fit In. You Were Meant to Rise.

“You weren’t created to be average. You were created to stand out, to go further, to leave a legacy.” ~Joel Osteen


Legacy isn’t built in silence.It’s built when you stop shrinking to be accepted and start expanding to be remembered. Balance is concerned with harmony. Boldness is committed to truth.


Boldness is:

  • Saying no when it’s easier to say yes.

  • Starting again when others would settle.

  • Launching the business, pitching the book, changing your story.

It’s not reckless. It’s not ego. It’s aligned courage.


You Become Who You Decide To Be

When you finally stop waiting and choose boldness:

  • You see possibility instead of limits.

  • You speak up instead of shrinking back.

  • You act as if the life you want is already yours—because energetically, it is.

“The only limits in our lives are those we impose on ourselves.” ~Bob Proctor

So what if the limit… was “balance”?

What if you could choose boldness today—and rewrite your future in the process?


This Is Your Moment

Boldness doesn’t knock.

It waits quietly, inside of you, asking, “Are you ready yet?”

So let this be the moment you say ‘yes’.

‘Yes’ to your voice. ‘Yes’ to your vision. ‘Ye’s to becoming the unforgettable version of you that’s been waiting to rise.


Because the life you want?

It doesn’t come from balance.

It comes from boldness.

 
 
 

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