This may not seem like an online tool type post, yet the biggest tool to succeeding online is you and your inner game.
It has been said that what you need tends to show up around you. While last week I got ahead on my blog posts I wrote yesterday’s in a bit of hurry. (Sorry Geoff but I do love you and your post was easy to write.) Yesterday I was getting everything together for my mom’s birthday today.
But the reason I went from ahead to “on time” is fear based. Because I am very very near completion on two projects, and I am very afraid. Yet in the synchronicity that seems to be the topic many people are writing about this week. Erica Douglass has guest blog The Secret to Getting Past Go, then Geoff Hoff has Look After Your Gnome while Connie Green wrote Fear of Rejection – Overcoming the Feeling of Not Being Good Enough.
The Teachers Were Wrong
Similar to Connie, in school many teachers told me that I really needed to leave writing and story telling to someone else. They told me to stick with math. Over and over I heard this, yet writing was a life long dream. By life long, I mean at 5 I wanted to be an author. So the hunger was fire deep inside my belly and grew and grew until I finally had to take action.
Hesitation
I sit here with just two ebooks available. Rockstar Guide to WordPress and Unlock Your Personal Power which I wrote with Kelly. There are 5 products (including the 2 that are almost done) within just a few steps of completion yet I have hesitated.
Hesitation does not benefit anyone. It keeps your light, your story, your adventure from reaching full potential. Perhaps this is the final lesson, as Erica’s was to me today… the one that makes you say to the Universe, “Yes, I got the message.”
Succeed is My Only Choice.
In answer to some recent questions, this is my full time gig now. Writing and pushing this blog and my business into a full time income. In the past year since I lost my job, the income has grown but not by enough yet. And now, my savings is running dry, so I am going to have to push forward. But why haven’t I finished my products before now?
Why?
… blah … blah… blah… (translation: I have excuses but the true reason is fear)
What if you do not like my writing? What if people don’t read my writing? What if no one buys? What if it does not work?
The thing is you have these what if’s as well. If you allow them to grow and do not push for your own success who will?
BUT WHAT IF??
What if my writing becomes wildly popular? What if I make more money than I ever did with a J.O.B? And in your case, what if your dreams come true in the wildest fashion imaginable? What if you had more than enough to meet your needs and help the others important to you??? What if???
So what is your fear? And what is it keeping you from doing?
~ MJ Schrader
Please wish a huge Happy Birthday to my mom!!!
She actually doesn’t go online much. And the cake? Took an hour to decorate. Chocolate Cake, Coconut filling, Chocolate Butter-cream frosting, Decorations are Almond Flowers and Dark Chocolate lines and spots
