'Fessing Up
What happens when you have lots of ideas but never implement any of them?
Crickets start chirping, cobwebs are built and dust bunnies take over but not much else. If it was a good idea (how do you know if you don’t implement it) someone else probably also had a similar idea and took action on it.
Meanwhile you’re still waiting for something to change, planets to line up, the time to be just right. Yes I do know that everything has it’s season. I also know that you will not reap without sowing.
Pull that idea out again, dust it off, clean it up and take one tiny step to move it forward.
For all you procrastinators and naysayers, hey I include myself in this group, there is a step zero, a step before you get to step one.
Step zero is to let the expectations for the idea go. Right now, before you pull idea out again. Before you dust it off. Just let the expectations for it go.
Now breathe from your belly and
Take Step Zero
That’s what I’m doing, reviving this here blog from the depths of cyberspace and time.
I had all these really grand expectations for this space. Oh it was going to become my magnum opus. Yes it was. It was going to be a well traffiked, affiliate selling machine on steroids while it helped other people and me find our power and voice and excel using all that latent potential we’ve been hiding to ashamed, to frightened to share it.
We think that accomplishment only comes from great deeds… Great deeds are made up of small, steady actions, and it is these that you must learn to value and sustain.” ~ “WishCraft” page 106 by Barbara Sher
I wasn’t even able to take those small steps because I was dangling with one hand from a cliff 100 feet above a raging river without a safety net, rope or anything else.
I didn’t want to face my truths so I could Get Caught Thriving. I just kept getting caught. I just kept surviving.
Am I all better now? In a word No. What was wrong will not be fixed overnight but I accept that. I couldn’t follow through on any plans I had for this space until I accepted that.
Acceptance offered the safety net. Acceptance allowed me to clearly see exactly where my strengths and weaknesses were. It also allowed me to understand that what I had learned was wrong.
I don’t need to spend so much time trying to change my weaknesses into strengths. For every perceived weakness I have, there is another person with that strength. I’m calling them perceived because who knew “a dislike of monotony” could be a strength.
We we work together, we all get to work from our strengths. It may also reveal underlying strengths and hidden talents.
That was a huge revelation for me.
The Next Step or a Plan
So moving forward there’s a plan or rather there will be a plan.
This is me dusting off an idea and releasing old outdated expectations that have grown around it.
I’ll leave with a paraphrased quote from David Allen of “Getting Things Done” fame.
“Make sure not to let old thoughts stay around too long, pretending they’re useful when they’re not.”
