What do I need most to succeed in business?
Be fearless!
What do I do when doubts creep in?
Be fearless!
How do I get over my fears?
Be fearless!
Last week, I attended an outstanding Puget Sound Business Journal “Grow Your Business” Expo. The day was full of exhibitors and presenters, all focused on providing resources and strategies to entrepreneurs. A common theme of many of the speakers? Be fearless!
Every time someone said that, I cringed inside.
There’s a fabulous 2003 episode of “Sex and the City” that tells the sad tale of a poorly implemented break-up. Carrie, our lead protagonist, awakes after an evening with her boyfriend to find herself alone with a post-it note that says, “I’m sorry, I can’t, don’t hate me.” She takes the note to breakfast with her gal pals, seething with anger and disgust.
At some point, she decides that the day cannot go down in history as “the day she got broke up with a post-it.” Here’s the story of how Carrie inspired me when I experienced my own “post-it day,” and how you can take back your own power.
Last week, I attended a workshop about how to create a compelling business vision and purpose. As part of the process, we were asked to name our core values, going so far as to narrow it down to one, unshakable value that we held near and dear.
Even when faced with a long list of lovely words, such as abundance, creativity, excellence, innovation, quality and winning (Ha – I’ll never look at that word the same way again – thanks a lot, Mr. Sheen), I found it simple to name my #1 value. Here’s how that value flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
There was no more putting it off.
I’d already reorganized my filing system, vacuumed the rug in my office, updated Facebook five times and shredded a stack of old papers and checks from 10 years ago.
It was going to be easy. Really. They’d said “Yes, please contact me!”
And yet, I still kept saying, “Oh, I’ll start after lunch,” and “Just one more e-mail…”
What was it?! Why in the world would I be afraid to pick up the phone and call people who had basically given me permission to call them!?!?
A post about my shifting relationship with the phone, and how you can learn to stop worrying and love the phone, too.
You know how sometimes a word keeps popping up over and over, so much so that you have to stop a moment and wonder why? Over the past few weeks, my word-pop has been “fierce.” It’s not a word I’ve used very much, and I’ve certainly never used to describe myself or anyone I knew.
I mean, really, come on… I’m an introvert!! Can a “good girl” who’s also an introvert be fierce??
So I did what we do these days: I took the question to my Facebook community. Here’s what happened…
