Hello lovely dreamers!
I am so happy to share with you a very special post I did for an amazing website called Kind Over Matter. Check out my post and find out how I found myself Leaping Over the “How” Hurdle as I reached for my dreams and how you can too!
Enjoy!
After my big announcement yesterday I had a difficult time sleeping last night. I don’t know if it was the excitement of sharing the big news or if it was my mind running wild with all kinds of ideas and insights. One thing is for sure though, my inspiration is high and I am so excited about moving forward with my dreams, I can hardly stand it. I am trying to stay in the inspirational mindset and not allow myself to float away on a sea of questions that seem to be popping up here and there.
Questions like:
How are you going to get clients?
When will you start?
How much will you charge?
Are you sure you can do this?
How? How? How?
I am letting go of all of those questions right now and focusing on the current task…building my model. Instead of worry about all the details, I am taking it one step at a time and allowing my inspiration to lead me and to be honest, my model is coming together faster than I expected.
I am allowing my inspiration to lead me as opposed to my logic.
I am choosing my dreams over what reality tells me.
I am choosing hope over doubt.
I am flowing with my ideas instead of forcing them and I must say it feels great! Who knew letting go of the how could feel so good?
Yesterday I set the date for action on writing my first children’s book. I was excited, a little anxious, but mostly excited. The words were forming in my head and if it weren’t for my day job, I would have immediately grabbed a pen and paper and started writing. One of you wonderful readers called me brave for setting the date and I hadn’t even written one word yet. I was feeling far beyond optimistic. I had decided my dream would come true and nothing was going to stop me until….
I started wondering (more like worrying) about the “how”. How am I going to get this writing contract by the end of the year when I didn’t know the first thing about getting a book published? Do I need an agent or can I just send my proposal and manuscript on my own? Where do I find the right publishers? How long will it take?
The questions just wouldn’t stop and as I started researching the “how”, I became frozen in fear. There were so many websites saying how hard it is to get a book published let alone a children’s book, and how long the process takes. The rejections will come flying in or you won’t hear anything at all. As I read all I kept feeling was my dream slowly deflating. I wish I could say I was easily able to brush it off and find my positive place again, but I can’t. Instead I fell into a fog of disappointment and fear that carried over to this morning.
I woke up feeling uneasy, overwhelmed, and just off. I couldn’t put my finger on it but as soon as I began writing this post the fog began to lift. I then remembered this…I don’t have to know the “how” right this second. I don’t have to figure it all out right now. If I can float on my excitement and creativity and keep my dream alive, the Universe will conspire to help me. With a positive attitude I will be led to the path that is right for me and while so many naysayers (online at least) have stated the difficult road that lies ahead, I am choosing to believe it doesn’t have to be that way. Just as easily as so many other pieces in my life have fallen into place, this will too one way or another.
I don’t have to know the “how” in order to believe it is possible. In fact, no knowing the “how” makes it that much more exciting.