Make space to do what makes you happy

A shift is in the air, I can feel it and I can smell it. I have been dreaming about it for long enough, so I’m not surprised it has finally arrived. You want to know why? I made space for it.

I like to write, I am by no means the worlds best author, in fact, I make a lot of mistakes, but I enjoy it. See I have this dream about being an Author, Speaker and Mentor, I have been mentoring marketing clients for years and I’ll put my hand up and say that yes, I’m good at it. I’ve been speaking for years too and I’m pretty happy being on a stage and blurting out what is in my head to a crowd of humans. Now I can officially say that I am also an Author, so I have hit the trifecta. I feel great and it’s all because I made the time to do what I love!

It didn’t happen overnight though. Its been a long old road to get to the point where I’m confident and sure enough about what the hell I’m on about to get it onto paper. My first book is a story about me, so as I am the subject, I really should know what I’m on about. It wasn’t the subject that was the issue with me, I took a long time to decide if I actually wanted to air myself out in this very confronting way. So I had my own set of barriers I constructed myself. I was my own block, no one else.

But, the way I look at it is, I’ve spent a lot of years worrying about what everyone else thinks about me and now I’ve unpacked, I just don’t care what anyone thinks of me (with the exception of my husband and kids). So what have I got to lose? If someone decides that they don’t like me anymore because I’ve made some pretty fucking dumb mistakes -then that is their choice. I will live with that.

See you have that choice too. If you are not doing something because you are worried about what someone else might think then the only person you are doing a disservice to, is yourself.

So stop and think about it.

What is it that you REALLY want to do?
What is holding you back? (not who – forget other people, this is a “you” issue)
In an ideal world, how do you intend to make it happen?

So now you know what you want, why you think you can’t do it and now that you have written those thoughts down do they still resonate with you or do they look like an excuse? And you know what you have to do to get to your goal.

So what’s stopping you?