Hey beloved!
Welcome back to this week’s 🌿 Rooted & Rising! If you’ve ever felt like you’re redoing the same work over and over, or wondered why certain challenges keep showing up in your life- this one’s for you.
But before we go any further…
🥭 A Spiritual Snack🥭
"So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised."
Where I Got Checked ✅
Last week, my dad’s voice popped into my head at the most random time.
I was standing at my kitchen sink, staring at dishes from two days ago. I’d cooked dinner, ate, and then told myself “I’ll wash these later.” But “later” turned into tomorrow, and tomorrow turned into crusty plates that now required me to really lock in to wash.
And I heard my dad clear as day: “Do it good the first time so you don’t have to do it again.”
He used to say this all the time growing up. But it wasn’t until I was scrubbing pots from my core that it hit me: this principle applies to EVERYTHING in business and life.
How many times have I:
Half-finished a project, then had to circle back to “fix” it later
Avoided a difficult conversation, only for it to blow up bigger down the road
Cut corners on systems, then spent twice the time dealing with the mess it created
There’ve been countless times that I created my own wilderness season by not closing loops the first time around.
Let’s dive into the deets…
The Breakdown: Close the Loop or Circle for 40 Yrs 🤏🏾
If you’re reading this newsletter, you probably know about the Israelites and their 40 year journey that should’ve taken a week! (Eleven days, to be exact. Deut. 1:2).
Wandering the wilderness for 40 years, not because God was punishing them or because the journey was hard, but because they kept refusing to learn the same lesson.
They’d mess up, “repent,” then do the exact same thing again.
They didn’t close the loop.
They just kept reopening the same wounds, facing the same tests, circling the same mountain.
So what does this mean for us? Every time we don’t fully complete something or learn a lesson the first time, we’re choosing to extend our own wilderness season/workload.
When you cook dinner but don’t wash the dishes, you’re not “saving time”, you’re creating future work and adding to your mental to-do list.
When you start a project but don’t finish it properly, you’re not “moving fast”, you’re guaranteeing you’ll have to revisit it or jeopardizing your credibility.
When you ignore the lesson God’s trying to teach you, you’re not “getting through it”, you’re just postponing your growth.
Closing the loop isn’t about being a perfectionist. It’s about removing the friction in your progress.
It’s choosing to:
Finish the task fully instead of leaving it at 80%
Learn the lesson once instead of repeating mistakes (& investigating why you repeat the same mistakes so you can get to the root of it!)
Have the hard conversation now instead of letting things fester
Do it right the first time so you can move forward instead of circling back
My dad, an entrepreneur himself, understood something I’m just now learning in my own entrepreneurial journey: The fastest way forward is to finish the seemingly minuscule things well.
Time to get it DONE! Once & for all!
This Week’s Challenge 👀
This week, let’s identify ONE area where we keep having to “circle back”:
Maybe it’s:
Business tasks you start but don’t complete (proposals half-written, emails that require follow-ups, projects at 80%)
Financial loops that stay open (receipts you don’t track, invoices you delay sending, expenses you “mean to” categorize - literally me talking to me rn 🥲)
Relationship conversations you avoid that keep resurfacing with more intensity
Personal habits you restart every Monday (workouts, morning routines, eating well - more on these habits next week)
Pick ONE. Just one (I know it’s hard, but you can tackle the next one next week).
Then close. that. loop! (to the the tune of “move. that. bus!”)
Close it completely this week. Do it right. Finish it fully. Learn the lesson. Add it to your ✨repertoire ✨. Move forward.
Notice how much mental space you get back when you’re not carrying around unfinished business. Notice how it feels to start fresh on something new instead of constantly circling back to things you should’ve completed the first time.
Your future self will thank you. And you might just cut your wilderness journey from 40 years back to 11 days.
Monday Move 💃🏾
Pop on this playlist of Christian bops that got me through last week, take a moment to stretch, breathe, (and dance if you must) and leave with a reminder for the week ahead.
Your playlist:
The TLDR: “I’ll do it later” is making your mental load heavier than the island of Manhattan. Do it now & do it well so you never have to do it again. Or as my dad used to say, “Do it good the first time so you don’t have to do it again.”
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Stay rooted in who you are. Keep rising in your calling!
Here for the journey with you ✨,
