Turning It Around

In the past few days I have been connecting with some powerful, fun and kick-butt people — and am creating joint ventures with at least three of them. It is amazing the difference it makes to be in action and in conversation with great, positive people. It is soooooo easy to let my headspace get clogged and down and focused on the stuff that stinks, but it is truly amazing what can happen when I just get in conversation, get in to a dialogue instead of that hamster wheel of a monologue that spins around and around going nowhere in my head!

It’s like that saying: “Your mind is like a bad neighborhood — get out and get out fast! And if you have to go back in, bring a good friend with you!”

This past weekend, I was not in a good space — all I could focus on in my life was what wasn’t working — and man, that stuff was REALLY not working. And to make it worse, my husband was in about the same place — which doesn’t happen that often, usually we kind of balance each other out better than that. But we were both scared, really down and feeling like we just weren’t going to be able to pull off all this big stuff we’ve taken on.

Finally at one point I said, “Let’s not feel this way anymore!” He looked at me like, what are you talking about? So I said it again. “Let’s — not — feel — this — way — any — more!

I just couldn’t stand it and I just got to where I absolutely refused to feel that sh—tty for one second longer! That alone shifted things a lot, and then we started to do everything differently — we started making plans to act on ideas we had had, we made some phone calls to people who we knew would be positive and helpful, we brainstormed, we started joking around, we pulled out our homework from the Jay Abraham / Gordon Bizar business mentoring program we’re doing and started reading — we just took it on.

What a difference. What an AWESOME difference.

One of the people I’ve studied with says, over and over, that one of the things it takes to succeed in business is absolute dogged persistence. I love that, because it’s so not glamorous, not inspiring, but very real, just saying it like it is. It does take absolute dogged persistence, so be sure you’re in a business that you LOVE, because if you’re not, that dogged persistence part is going to get real old, real fast, and you just won’t keep going there. Yeah, sometimes persistence looks like making one more and yet one more phone call, but sometimes it looks like getting yourself out of your own head — again — and getting connected to why you are doing all of this — again — getting yourself inspired and psyched and ready to rock — again! And when I get my head into that kind of space, it’s amazing the people and ideas and opportunities that show up – like the ones up at the top of this post!