Stopped In Your Tracks! Why Do We Often Feel This Way?

We often feel overwhelmed so we don’t even try to begin. Is it hard to start?  Of course it is! I won’t lie to you!

But, not starting, results in feeling “stuck”. I hear this all the time. I know we feel that we’re the only one…but, hey many say they feel stuck! About 90-95% of my new clients tell me that’s why they decided to get coaching.

Starting’s the hard part. It takes courage to even say to yourself-I’m beginning. It may be the 5th time-it may be your very first-it’s like doing anything that is a change…Quitting fried foods, beginning an exercise program, deciding to leave a job, start a business…They’re all beginnings and a change from what was-what we’ve grown accustomed to…

As a writer & teacher, I know the horrors of the blank page & feeling stuck-somewhat lost as how to begin… I know what I’m meant to do-I love coaching and am a Transitions expert. I dread thinking of that unwritten speech or the product/service yet to be invented, the books I’ve yet to write & the teleclasses I’ve yet to offer.  I’m a creator/innovator  & know it’s natural to be stuck in the place of beginning. And, of course, everyone who wants to change-be it job/career, being a solo-entrepreneur or in “transition” is the creator of their own life! We can get so stuck there that we don’t even start.

What if what I write/draw/speak and it (pardon my French!) sucks? What if my family/friends say I’m nuts for leaving this job/marriage/town? What if they laugh at me starting/running a business?  But, so what? How will you know you can do it-if you never begin? It’s a given, some time, you will FAIL, be a total flop-close on Opening Night! (I’m a theatre buff!) What would happen if we just came to terms that Failure is possible-even probable…So is fear of this. But, as one of my favorite quotes-reminds us…Feel the Fear & do it anyway!
Now, all pressure is off.

Failure is a part of success, but if we don’t risk failure enough we may not be as successful as we could be.

In Abundance!

Marcia

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