Had a really interesting year this month. (At least it feels like it was a year). I learned a lot of things about myself and about life choices in general.
I got a call three weeks ago from my only daughter who lives in Portland, Oregon. She was ill and needed me. That in itself sent me down to her side. She didn’t think it was important to tell me HOW ill she was and within minutes of my arriving at her apartment, we were en route to the Emergency Room.
Four days later, she was released from the hospital, very weak and unable to take care of herself so we drove home where I could watch over her for two weeks while she began to get her strength back.
In the middle of all of this chaos, I was trying to run my solopreneur business, make connections I had scheduled and, in general, just keep my business going. I learned a very big lesson, too.
When my focus shifted away from the business, it slowed to a crawl. It wasn’t that things went wrong, it just had been DeBorah-powered and ran out of gas when my attention turned to my beloved daughter instead of it. This was not a good thing. Through my other site, I teach solopreneurs to automate repetitive tasks, outsource administrative and marketing duties unless they’re REALLY good at it and I hadn’t been doing it myself. So, I recognized an opportunity for myself and others.
By the way, my daughter is doing well and is continuing to recover. It will be quite a while, but she’s a little stronger every day.
So, what I’ve come up with is a deeper understanding of what needs to be done as far as passive processes, automated processes and a slightly different focus in what I’m doing and offering to the marketplace.
So, here goes: (By the way – this is the first time I’m sharing this and I wanted to share it with all of you!)
It’s time to automate some of the repetitive tasks the way I coach folks to do on DEBORAHBEATTY.COM. I don’t know why, but it just didn’t occur to me to do it on the Created Life side.
If I’m going to have the kind of lifestyle where I can leave everything to do something that’s important, I cannot risk that things will roll to a stop. I can no longer afford any hesitations or speedbumps if I’m going to realize my goals.
I’m creating a vision board to keep me focused, too.
I’ll keep all of you posted on my progress. Truly, I’m just one of you with triumphs and setbacks and daily frustrations. As I’ve said previously, living a created life is not easy, it takes guts, determination and stubborness. But if you want that life to be full of power, passion and possibility, you need to be committed to the end result so you can blow through all the “stuff” that comes up.
Find a time when you felt unhappy, unfulfilled, even trapped in a job or in a relationship. I know personally I can remember a lot of these while I was working j.o.b.s over the years. (You all know the definition of a j.o.b.? It’s a position that keeps you “just over broke”.) Focus onto this situation. It shouldn’t be difficult to remember. These negative memories tend to come to the surface a lot faster than the positive ones do.
I think the fourth item was the biggest realization. So many of the “kids” (who were bigger than I am) showed me a crusty, tough-guy attitude, feigned indifference and unbelievable negativity. But once I got their attention and made eye contact, impressed me with their hunger to learn, to improve themselves regardless of how useless, how stupid or how incompetent they’d been told they were — such a shining behind darkened, shielded eyes.
