The other day, I made a decision to embark on something HUGE and life-enhancing. That something is called B-School (B for business), and it is basically the mecca for entrepreneurs who want to leverage the incredible power of the internet to do business online. I just happen to be one of those entrepreneurs and have been mulling over this program for a few years now. It only happens once a year so it keeps popping up each February/March as an option.
The first year, I decided I wasn’t ready.
The second year, I decided I wasn’t ready. Then I was. Then I wasn’t. Then I was, but when I went to enter my card information there was an issue. I took it as a sign from the universe that I should wait another year.
This year, I told people there was no way. I am in more debt now than a year ago (TMI?) and I am traveling during the program weeks.
But then.
Then there is that little voice inside my head that says I have been playing too small. That knows that I haven’t really tried that hard to grow my business, despite long hours in front of the computer. That B-School would enable me to take my book and my message of holistic gut health and actually be able use it to help more and more people. That every single day people ask me questions about how to improve their health, how to relieve digestive pain, and how to live a fuller life. That I have the capacity to support people in these questions and help them do all those wonderful things.
So I decided to go for it. To invest in myself, my business, and my success. Really, to invest in my clients and customers – to invest in YOU – in order to up my game and really show up like I mean it, so that you can too.
I had decided all of this and was just figuring out financials and logistics when things kept happening one after the other that felt like some kind of joke.
The card didn’t come in the mail. The next one had just under the funds needed. The next was denied on fraud suspicion because I’m out of the country. I called a lifeline (my mom) and even she was denied entry! With T-minus 4 hours to go until the cart closed, I began to panic. Not in a pretty way. In a “WHY ME, GOD?!” kind of way.
Then I realized that it was kind of a metaphor for everything in my business, and even in my health, so far. I’d try for a little while, and when it didn’t work out, I’d give up. When I’d start a fitness program but not see instant results, I’d call it quits. I realized that I’ve wanted it all with little to no work.
That’s not the game, folks.
Calling it quits after a little setback or failure is calling it quits on yourself and your possibilities in life.
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I was recently staying with some family members who owned a very successful business, and when I asked what their advice was for beginning entrepreneurs, one said, “Work your ass off, and you’re going to fail a lot before it happens.”
Anything worth having is worth working for and definitely worth failing for. So if you’re clear that you want something badly enough – like a successful business, or freedom from digestive pain, or a rockin’ body – you have to be willing to fail, to try multiple methods, and to keep hacking at it until it works.
I have perfect clarity that B-School is meant for me (as I’m sure the thousands of other students feel as well). It’s a long shot and I sort of feel like I’m throwing myself off a bridge where, if I’m lucky, I’ll find a steep rock wall to climb up with just my bare hands and no rope. Did I mention I’m terrified of heights? But I’d rather jump and climb that wall than stay safely on the bridge, looking up at the sky in longing.
Jump with me? Whatever it is your goal is, I can promise you the answer is in the climb, not in the wanting and gazing.
Love,
Laura
p.s. Did you find this helpful? Let me know in the comments or by shooting me an email! Also let me know if there’s anything I can do to support your journey. We’re in this together!
