I have been sitting down to write this email every weekend for the last month. I would start to write and then I would stop. I would tell myself I had this and that to do, yet the truth is I was procrastinating writing it. Why you might ask?
Well, this last year has brought about a lot of changes. I graduated as a board certified health coach. I have taken so many amazing online programs from people I have admired for a long time. Learning, Learning, Learning. I was committed to investing in myself, investing in the new business venture, investing in what I could offer all of you.
I realized that while all of that is amazing, awesome and I truly wouldn’t change any of it, “it” is one way in which I distract myself. HUH? What do you mean distract yourself? I didn’t see it right away yet, I did feel it somewhere inside of me. I didn’t stop long enough to listen or ask myself about that little nudging inside I could sense.
However, I noticed I kept seeing program after program and thinking “Oh yes I need to learn “THAT” if I am going to really be able to make this business work.” And this happened over and over. I bought how to build your own website programs, how to be your own copywriter programs and how to build an online business programs. I hired coaches. Fired coaches. I hired mentors. I kept looking for ways for me to be able to DO this business.
I started to ask myself, “hmmm what is wrong with this picture? Here I am, 18 months into this venture and I am no clearer on where I want to take it and what I want to say than I was when I began.” Or at least that is what I kept telling myself. (psst. little secret I am not confused anymore and clarity has taken over, stay tuned for that in upcoming weeks.)
As I have embarked on this new venture I can see now there was a part of me that was feeling not good enough. In a way like a fraud. “How could I be a health coach when I am still overweight? How could I go out into the world and talk about fear, change and choice and still have thoughts of feeling not good enough? Wouldn’t that mean I was a true fraud all together?”
So, I kept buying programs, hiring coaches, spending hours and hours working on things and not taking the actual steps to move forward. YUP, I was distracting myself. I was in a spin cycle of “if I get that then I will be able to do that” syndrome.
“If I learn that then for sure I will be able to learn that.” Say that, Do that, Be that. UGHHHHHH Yup, Spin Cycle. Total distraction.”
I also realized, as I have been digging deep to understand this cycle for myself, that I have done this a lot in my life. (Can you relate?) I have a pattern of not feeling I can truly STEP into my life 100%. I have started businesses and been successful, yet not on my own. This is and will be all my own.
The other thing I realized during this time is I wasn’t asking for help. Oh Gosh another pattern.
I thought I HAD to do it all myself. I couldn’t hire people yet; ask for help, barter anything. I had to do it all myself or then it really meant I couldn’t do it and that would mean I should quit.
I had a message in my head that said, “You can’t hire anyone. You are not making enough money yet to hire anyone.” So I loaded more and more on my shoulders and that just perpetuated that I couldn’t do this, that I was a fraud and not good enough.
Well, the truth is I am totally good enough. I am totally capable of doing this business, finding my voice and stepping into my own place in the world.
I didn’t get here just by snapping my fingers, reading a book or having anyone tell me to “just do it.”
I got to this point by saying I CHOOSE something different for myself. I BELIEVE that I can do this. And on the days that I am shaky I will and do tell myself I am willing to be willing to believe I can do this, and I PRACTICE every day. I do one thing every day. At least one thing EVERY day on my list that moves me forward.
AND I have asked for help and the universe has provided. I am so happy to have a team around me. I have decided that the money I was spending on programs could easily be spent on actual help.
Sometimes it takes a shift in perception. How do you get there? Well it takes a willingness to say I want something DIFFERENT and then being OPEN to see what the possibilities can be.
I also am unwilling to feel like a fraud anymore. I am not a fraud no matter how much I weigh. I am unwilling to spend my time feeling not good enough. I love who I am now. I worked hard to get to this place in my life. To feel free each day. To see the full range of choices in each day still takes my breath away. I now listen to my internal barometer. My Internal GPS system. I am not willing to take one more second of my day and feel bad about myself when I love myself. Just isn’t going to happen.
“So one step at a time, one choice at a time, Choosing, Believing & Practicing I am on my journey and sharing it with you.”
Til next week.
What is ONE thing YOU can do to be more honest with yourself this week about how YOU distract? I would love to hear about it. I would also LOVE to hear your feedback on this post.
Leave your comments, thoughts and feedback below. THANKS
PS: I am declaring my independence from feeling like a fraud and not good enough – What will you declare your independence from this Fourth Of July……Declare it – Name it – Claim it!!!!!!!!! I would love to hear what it is, You can share that below too.
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