Get the Idea Off Your Hard Drive.
I remember walking out of Office Max that day feeling powerful. Armed with a tablet of poster-sized sticky chart paper and new broad tipped markers, I made my way through the parking lot on mission. I’d just spent a lot of money on a URL I was sure was gonna make me millions.
I don’t remember what was on the radio as I drove back to my place. I was too busy making lists in my head. I don’t remember unloading my car, or what I ate for lunch that day, but I DO remember the feeling of possibility as I crouched on the ground, scribbled my plans in diagrams and colors and stuck my ideas in sequential order on my dining room walls.Knock knock…
My neighbor. Did I have baking soda. Yes. Come in.She looked at my sticky poster papers strewn about my dining room walls and floors and asked what I was up to.
“Oh… just hatching plans.”
“About?”
“I’m creating an online course.”“Oh, like for the University?”
“No. For me. For people.”
“I don’t get it.” She thanked me for the baking soda and went back across the street while I plopped back down on my dining room floor staring at the walls.
I went blank. I kept thinking how my neighbor just didn’t get my idea.
That’s ok, I thought. Just a little distraction.
I’ll take a break and get back to it.
I don’t remember what I did next that day, or any of the days that followed.
I do remember transferring my poster paper to the back of a door when dinner guests were about to come over.
I do remember taking pictures of those posters behind the door before I finally threw them away.
I still have the URL.
And I still have not brought that course to life.
My neighbor, of course is not to blame, here. She just came over for baking soda, for goodness sake.
No, it was my own persistence that wavered, my own doubts that took over my belief.
Maybe you relate?
After supporting thousands of entrepreneurs in the last decade, I can assure you, we are more alike than we are different.
I’m guessing you have a course or program you want to birth, or get more eyes on, but the doubts that hold you back fall into one of these three categories:
Objections:
The Imposter: I don’t have a degree in this thing I want to teach/I’m not a teacher/Doesn’t everyone know how to do this thing that comes so easily for me?/Who would even pay for this?/I’m not ________ enough” (fill in the blank: young, old, thin, pretty, smart, educated, rich, etc. etc. etc.)
The Geographically-Bound Technophobe: I can teach, but I can’t wrap my head around how I can get this content online to reach more people than I already know in my own town/I can’t do this because I am not tech savvy and only know who I know.
The Perfectionist: I don’t have a clarity/I’m in the weeds/aka: analysis paralysis. As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, “Perfectionism is fear dressed up in a mink coat and heels.”
Do you suffer from any of the above?
Is one (or more) of these reasons what’s holding you back from finally getting your work off your hard drive and into the world?
Let us assure you… after helping our clients usher in over $50 million dollars and change the lives of tens of thousands of people, we can help.
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