If you are an online entrepreneur…
One who is a leader,
A messenger,
A purpose-based profit creator,
I have “bad” news.
2020, like every year before her,
Carries with it the potential for
Seasons where you all of a sudden feel uninspired…. stuck in your own message…
DRAINED by the work that USED to fuel you.
In fact, I have heard from THREE badass women just this morning who are successful, known, and followed. They EACH used a word like “drained” or “stuck” to describe where they are. The content isn’t flowing like it should like it used to. They’re questioning things they didn’t use to question, agonizing over the “right” way to do/say/offer this or that.
This isn’t normal for them. They’re baffled… and they each sort of wondered, “what’s going on?” and “how can I get back to where I was so inspired?” They’re perplexed, because…
NOTHING HAPPENED TO BRING ABOUT THIS STUCK, DRAINED FEELING.
Yet here they are.
The true cause of this situation isn’t overwhelming or too many clients or too little engagement or anything like that. The TRUE cause (and solution) is found at the intersection of RESPONSIBILITY and DISTRACTION. Stay with me, this message is for you.
One of these women asked how to get back to a habit that used to be such a part of her routine, it was literally part of her identity. Only NOW… she can’t manage to get it done at all.
I immediately asked her to tell me what “distraction behaviors” she was engaging in. She said nothing for a long while until she finally asked how I knew.
She and I live hundreds of miles apart,
and I have NO psychic abilities…
and yet, I knew she had SOMEHOW been avoiding RESPONSIBILITY in favor of DISTRACTION.
How’d I known?
Easy. THIS is where we all go off course.
All of us.
RIGHT THERE…
at the intersection of Responsibility & Distraction.
We somehow lose sight of our initial vision, passion, and RESPONSIBILITY to our market, to our message. Sometimes this is a result of a disappointing launch or a particularly tough season. We begin to feel like “what’s the point?”
Other times, it’s a result of trying so hard to “grow” that we forget the heart of what we’re trying to grow while over-complicating it. It can also be due to being “backstabbed” or left out or something else that happens at times in the entrepreneurial realm.
We start to focus on ourselves,
how WE have been hurt
or treated badly
or overlooked or ignored by the market.
And we begin to stray,
from our passion,
our purpose,
our soul’s message for the world…
and our RESPONSIBILITY to share it.
When THIS happens, ALL of us begin to engage in “distraction behaviors.” I shared this morning how my distraction behaviors include ✅ eating or ✅ piddling or even ✅ surfing Facebook. Hers included science fiction books and a couple of other things. But distraction behaviors can ALSO include:
✅ Fancy marketing efforts to leverage and grow;
✅ Exercise
✅ Drinking
✅ Napping (soooo tired all of the sudden, are you? I get it. Walking away from your CORE and TRUEST purpose is a frighteningly steep uphill climb.)
✅ Cleaning
✅ Organizing
✅ Planning
✅ Staying “busy.”
Planning and organizing and preparing…
are THE MOST COMMON distraction behaviors
for entrepreneurs.
And they are HARD to recognize,
because they come dressed as SUCH noble guests,
partners even.
So, how do you know if you’ve taken a hard left from RESPONSIBILITY and are now walking in the land of DISTRACTION?
Well, first… we’re all grown-ups here.
You DO know.
But also…
you feel drained and stuck and uninspired.
And how could you not?
You’ve complicated or walked away from your first love.
The solution?
Identify your distraction behaviors
and SWAP one distraction behavior out…
and REPLACE it…
with ONE of the things, you used to LOVE doing.
Don’t overcomplicate this,
or make it harder than it is.
You simply need to walk BACK to your responsibility,
the sacred oath
you took,
to SERVE your market,
out of your soul’s purpose.
That’s it.
IF you are a seriously driven woman entrepreneur… I want to meet you. I want to talk with you about women who WOW. Message me.
