Squash Your Gremlins

By Carlene Ashby

The hands-down hardest thing about being an entrepreneur when you’re starting out is keeping the faith.  When there aren’t enough clients and the bills are piling up, it can be really hard to stay focused.

It can be really easy to start listening to the gremlin in your head that says something like this: “You’re crazy to be doing this! Who do you think you are? You’ll never make a living at this! You should just give up and get a job.”  Sound familiar?

Everyone has their doubts and fears.  And almost everyone has at least one naysayer in their life who project their own doubts and fears on you.

The key to drowning out that toxic noise is to focus on why you’re doing this.  Focus on your purpose.  You have been given specific gifts and talents in order to serve a specific group of people.  And that group needs you!  They need you to serve them.  You have a duty to bring your gifts to these people to improve their lives.

And what about you?  Think about all the reasons that you want to do this.  Think about the freedom that comes from being self-employed.  Think of the opportunities to do what you love, to make passive income, to spend more time with your family, to travel, to refuse to drive during rush hour!

Focusing on all the reasons you want and need to make this successful can help you do the things that you need to do but may not want to do.  When you are feeling too shy to approach a colleague about a joint venture, or too intimidated to speak at a seminar, think of all those reasons to be brave.

Your Prosperity Assignment Should You Choose To Accept:

Create a list of reasons to be brave, to think bigger, to get more done in a day than humanly be possible and make your dream a reality.

Put your top ten reasons together and make several copies:

  1. Make a wallet sized copy and put it in the clear, driver’s license spot so you can be reminded every time you open it.
  2. Put a copy on the bathroom mirror so you every morning, you inspire yourself  to be great!
  3. Put a big, colourful copy in your workspace where you can see it to keep you motivated throughout the day.

This sounds simple, but it works, I promise.  Don’t delay.   Don’t say, “Yeah, yeah, I’ll do it later.”  Do it now.  Make your list today, so that if a day comes when you feel worn out or hopeless, or just plain discouraged, you’ll have 10 good reasons to get up and give it all you’ve got!

© Copyright 2010 Carlene Ashby

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