Going For It!
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| Going For It! I recently returned from an event for “heart-centered entrepreneurs & change agents” that rocked my world — Lisa Sasevich’s Big Mission, Big Sales, Big Life retreat in San Diego.
(Instead I’ve spent hundreds of hours learning how to do my own webpages, copywriting, bookkeeping, marketing, ebooks, etc. — all inexpertly.) That’s hundreds of hours I could have spent doing what I love and do best, or enjoying my family… So when I saw a chance to invest in a year of expert mentoring & peer support to turn my “hobby” into a business, and grow it exponentially, I decided to go for it — even though the price tag scared me (and shocked my husband). I’m stepping waaay outside my comfort zone here (we don’t have that kind of $$ sitting around in our sock drawer…). But I trust that I’m being guided by Source, and dealing with all the fears is just part of my work. This makes 2010 my year to “go big, or go home,” as Gwen Webber-  McLeod says.
I’ve told my husband I’ll either fulfill my dreams for my business & meet my financial goals by Dec. 2010 – OR I’ll get a “real job” so I can meet my commitments with ease, do what I love for fun, and spend more time with our family. (Lisa’s 2010 Platinum & Diamond Masterminds — that’s me in white pants & shades, It’s funny — making such a high-stakes gamble would ordinarily terrify me. (For 4 1/2 years I’ve been very attached to having Inner Vision Portraits be my way to help people who want to make a difference actually DO it — “to BE the change you wish to see“.) But right now all I feel is huge relief. That’s because I finally get a concept I learned in Landmark Education: my business is just a game I made up: and it’s not the only way I can make the difference I’m here to make! So I’m going for it – playing full-out to win the “game” of my business — but I’m no longer attached to winning. If I lose this game at the end of 2010, I can invent others equally fulfilling: get a job & volunteer for charity, or pay my bills and then walk around the world like Peace Pilgrim, or who knows?? The possibilities are limitless. There’s something else I discovered — and this is for YOU:
We all play many games (work and relationships being the ones we tend to value most) and each has its own rules and score-cards. So take an area of your life that matters to you, and look at it as a GAME.
2. How do you keep score, or measure how well you’re doing? Now notice how much you’re attached to winning this game. (It really matters, doesn’t it.) 3. Can you imagine some way you could be OK if you didn’t win? What conditions have to be met for you to be OK with losing? (For example, I saw that in order to be OK with losing the game of my business, I’d need to fulfill my life mission some other way. And as soon as I saw that, I knew that there ARE other ways!)
4. Consider that you made up this game — YOU decided it was important (not everyone would agree) and YOU decided how it should be played (others might do it differently). Can you see how you could invent a new “game” in this area that you might like just as well, or even better? I’d love to hear what you discover — drop me a line! |
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