Last week I had the wonderful opportunity of attending a conference on being a “solopreneur” with the inimitable business coach, Tommi Wolfe. It was a very eye-opening three days for me—not least because three days away from home and away from my daughter is not something I do very often!
And while I was totally psyched to be at the conference, and totally excited to learn from these many people who are the best and brightest at what they do, I kept finding myself feeling off balance.
I was grumpy. More than that, I was angry. After the second day of the conference, I was pretty much ready to quit. I wanted to go home, curl up in a tiny ball under all the blankets on my bed and not come out again.
And I couldn’t really figure out why.
I mean, it wasn’t like someone had said something to me that pissed me off. No one was mean or rude to me. In fact, pretty much everything that anyone said on those two days was incredibly uplifting and inspiring. So why the heck was I feeling bruised, battered, and beaten up, when nothing but good things were happening to me?
It really took me a while to finally figure out that what I was feeling was fear.
I was learning all about what it would take to really get my business going, to get it off the ground, to find real success for myself and for you, my clients—and I was afraid of what I was hearing.
But Tommi knew that I (and I’m sure many others) would face that fear. She told us that if we weren’t scared, we weren’t moving forward, and she shared a clip from the movie We Bought a Zoo with us, about how all you need is 20 seconds of courage:
So, I tried to find that in myself. I found my 20 seconds of courage to stand up at the microphone in front of 200 people to ask questions. I put on my big girl panties and found my courage to get in the car to go back to the conference for day three.
And on day three, the very last speaker said the words I needed to hear. She didn’t know she was speaking to me, and I didn’t know they were the words I needed until I heard them, but then suddenly, everything clicked. I knew what I was afraid of, and I knew what I had to do to overcome it.
I’ve got some big, BIG things planned for all of us in the coming months. If you aren’t signed up for my newsletter yet, now would be a great time to do it (click here!), because I’ll be sharing my aha moments and some very special opportunities exclusively with my newsletter readers in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned. All I need is a few more 20 seconds of insane courage—and who knows what will happen from there.
