The Gap Between Where I Am

Your Daily Dose of Sunshine: Today’s Inspiration

• Learning Curves

• Relentless Pursuit of Personal Growth

• My Head’s About to Explode

Learning Curves

Any new job has a learning curve, that’s to be expected. What I was not expecting when I started building my business was the deluge of AHA Moments.

There have been changes and shifts in thinking that started trickling in slowly at first, until they progressed into a raging river, then sped up to the brink of a brilliant waterfall.

In order to go into business for ourselves, we have to be ready for some profound changes in our:

• Tenacity

• Stick-to-it-ive-ness

• Commitment

• Self-talk

• Mental Strength

• Resolve

• Beliefs - about so much of the world - what we’ve been taught about work, and work-life balance (like, it’s not really possible for most people), and how realistic it is to actually believe in making our dreams come true.

How many times have we been told to get our heads out of the clouds thinking our work could be our passion and we could help people with our creative gifts - and that we should just go get a real job? If you have even the daydream of an entrepreneurial mindset, you know what I’m talking about. You’ve envisioned creating something that would be beneficial for others, fulfill your own heart’s craving, and feed your bank account.

Well, I’ve found it - and in so doing, found that I am not ready for the challenge without significant growth on my part.

Relentless Pursuit of Personal Growth

Relentless Pursuit of Personal Growth is one of our Core Values and we see it played out in our leadership every single week. We meet with our founders on a Zoom call every Wednesday and see what they are tackling in personal development. We hear from those who have become wildly successful about their journeys and the things that stood in their way until they rose above them and learned what needed to be learned for them to grow.

Growing doesn’t just happen because all the right elements are in place. I mean, that helps. Good soil, nutrition, sunlight, and placement will have a lot to do with helping a plant take off. We’re learning about that as we landscape our front yard.

For personal development to happen, we have to see a need to change. What I’m learning is that what got me this far isn’t going to get me to the top in this new world of entrepreneurship. My thoughts about money, some of my limiting beliefs, my attitude toward what success even looks like, gratitude, what it means to be generous with my time and money, and how far I’m willing to grow to get what I want - are all blossoming into something different - my Version 2.0 - the new and improved version of me.

My Head’s About to Explode

So, it’s been little AHA moments every day for weeks now. I’ve been trying to jot them down as they happen - usually in the middle of some Rock & Roll Walking Meditation. I don’t know why I didn’t come here sooner to start writing them down.

I guess I thought this was personal development and so I shrunk into myself to do the learning. That’s not really me - the shrinking violet. And so I made a bit of a mess. I couldn’t keep track of all the developments without a systematic way to share them and own them and be present and accountable for them. Somehow writing and sharing are necessary components for me.

Writing is my Spiritual Practice. My dad used to tell me he could tell by the way I walked through a room if I was writing or not. If I was writing, I was sure of myself, confident, inspired, and juicy with joy I guess. When I was not writing, I was easily annoyed, triggered, irritable, and discombobulated. Writing is my grounding and stability. So, of course, if I’m taking on big growth, big changes and big challenges, writing would naturally be at the center of all of that, right? Well, no. Not exactly. If you know many writers, you’ll know that we can be a strange set of people who know exactly what we need to do to be in our right minds, and yet we’ll resist the blank page like nobody’s business.

When I’m not writing, I can go under rocks. I can see things darkly and with gloom and doom. Writing saves me and molds me and brings me alive. And it helps me unravel thoughts. With all these thoughts swirling around, it’s about time I get back to a daily divesting so that I can be more focused in my day to day work. Without a chance to unravel morning thoughts, I’m distracted and distraction is simply not what I need right now.

Change means turmoil and turbulence ahead - for that gorgeous ramp up to the waterfall adventure of exponential growth. Learning can be hard, but so is staying in the same place getting the same results we’ve always gotten. When we know what the learning and growing is meant to open up for us, we can buckle down and do the work.

So, welcome back to my Daily Dose of Sunshine. I guess I’ve been the one gone, but here we go! I have so much to share with you. Thank you for being here and for being on this journey with me!