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Step up…
By Sandra Lee Schubert | December 3, 2008
“… step up, think bigger, be bolder, eliminate fear and competition, and attract money and opportunities.“ Ali Brown
I was talking to someone about my life and how things were falling down around me. I mean it. Lost my job. Have health issues. There is this leak in my living room window. My favorite large bookcase broke, a shelf snapped. Now it leans dangerously against my desk supported on the other side by three file cabinets. Renovations were done in apartment upstairs and that unleashed vermin like a plague of locusts into my apartment.
She couldn’t help but laugh. It sounded like a cartoon to her. I had to agree the state of things have become absurd. As I sit at my desk each day it feels like I am in the midst of the perfect storm. Except I am the calm center of the storm. Occasionally something comes out of squall and cackles at me and I just swat it back.
There are things I am concerned about but if I were in a state of panic I could not handle problems effectively. Ali Brown is known as the Ezine Queen building her empire on teaching people how to effectively build a business through a well crafted ezine newsletter. She has certainly taken that piece and crafted an incredible empire for herself. Reading her last newsletter I was struck by how she was able to shift her mindset to reach way beyond her comfort zone.
I pulled out the statement above and have posted it over my computer. If you are crafting a business, creating art, writing your first novel it helps to be reminded of those who have gone before and succeeded.
A year from now I do think I will look back at this time as the moment I took my big steps. Where do you want to be a year from now?
Topics: Inspiration |