The Choice We Make Every Second
Why the smallest decisions are often the hardest—and the most transformative.
I once heard someone say that it’s easier to make big changes than small ones. I stopped to think about it, and in my experience, it feels true.
I remember when I tried to stop adding sugar to my coffee. I tried for years, and at one point I almost gave up, thinking it would be an impossible task. Little did I know I was giving so much power to sugar that it was probably reflected in many other areas of my life too.
A family member came to visit once, and he was drinking coffee without sugar.
I asked, “How do you do that?” He told me, “You need to stay 10 days without it, so your palate gets used to it. If you manage those 10 days, you’re good to go.”
Said and done.
After those 10 days I finally managed to stop sugar in my coffee, and since then—probably about nine years now—I’ve never had it again.
It seems so simple, but in the meantime I managed to change countries, shift careers, buy and sell houses, get pregnant… much bigger decisions. And yet, the small ones still get me.
Small decisions feel harder because they don’t carry the adrenaline of a big leap. They demand presence in the ordinary, consistency without applause, and the discipline to keep choosing again when no one is watching.
It’s in the lack of presence that small choices, the ones that could make big shifts, get lost.
This came powerfully to me last Sunday. I was at the gym running and walking intervals on the treadmill—one minute walk, one minute sprint, for 10 minutes.
I wasn’t in the mood, I was dragging myself to complete the exercises, and during the 4th round my thought was, “Just stop now, why keep struggling?”
As I started slowing down the treadmill, a whisper came into my head: “It’s just 2 minutes to honor what you said you would do. Are you really going to not finish what you said you would?”
My response was, “Oh shit, that’s right. Why would I feed the pattern of not finishing what I committed to?”
So I decided to finish my run and complete the workout properly.
Those are the small things we don’t catch if we’re not present. The choice to become more of your essence is made every minute of your day.
Everything is connected.
Those patterns of not finishing, of quitting early, show up in business too.
There is so much power in consistency, in going the extra mile. Sometimes it feels hard in business not because the business itself is harder, but because we are wired to quit too early. Then the business becomes just one more proof that greatness is “not for us.”
Just like sugar or the treadmill, in business the hardest part isn’t always launching a new program or making the big investment—it’s showing up daily, sending the email, keeping the promises you make to yourself, asking for the sale.
If you see yourself as energy, you know that when you break those patterns, when you choose differently, you unlock a huge amount of power and creativity.
You wouldn’t miss your newsletter for small reasons, because you understand that every time you keep your word, you strengthen your energetic field of trust—in yourself and in your business.
Each time you choose presence over avoidance, you raise your frequency.
That momentum compounds. What starts as a single choice becomes the energetic current that carries your whole business forward.
I often say to clients: you don’t do what you do for others, you do it for yourself. When nobody is clapping or watching, if you keep building with alignment and consistent action, the results are guaranteed.
One of our clients recently got his first coaching client. He is a beautiful embodiment of Discipline and Vitality. He spent quite some time “without seeing results,” but he chose to keep showing up, to do the work for himself, not to quit or change directions constantly. If he keeps showing up the way he is, I know he will build a solid business.
The problem is, we stop running too soon. We let the “sugar addiction” of old patterns decide what we do, instead of locking in the vision and taking the actions being presented to us. It doesn’t matter where you are—you can go where you want to go, if you choose to.
But it will require you to step up and make small changes to break the big, unhelpful patterns.
In the end, building a sacred business is not about a single big decision—it’s about choosing again and again, every second, to align with who you really are. The small shifts unlock the big transformations.
Ask yourself: Where am I stopping one round too early? Where am I giving my power to the “sugar” of old patterns?
The truth is, the choice is never far away. It’s always here, in this very moment. And each time you honor that choice—no matter how small—you’re not just building your business, you’re becoming the embodied expression of your vision. That’s where the flow happens.
If you haven’t taken the Harmony Map yet, it might be the perfect tool to discover your breakthrough frequency.
From inside the bottle we can’t see the label, and having your patterns reflected back is a powerful way to see what you can’t see on your own.
Flow doesn’t come from struggling harder—it comes from breaking the small patterns that keep you stuck in a certain vibration.
By making different choices in those subtle habits, you unlock a magnetic power that, with time, will be seen and felt in your business too.
With Love,
Carolina
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