Lately, have you been feeling like you have to figure out: HOW?
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- How do I stay connected and not lonely with social distancing?
- How do I date when I can’t leave the house?
- How do I get work done when my day is filled with status meetings?
- How can I build a business without networking in person?
Oh… Wait… The last one is mine.
Yes, I’ve been thinking a lot about the how behind things lately. It’s my default way. Figure out how things work and then you can figure out how to make them work for you. At least, that’s what the engineering side of me thinks and believes.
With where we are today, though there is more behind why I’m looking for the HOW.
In 2019, I took a leap, a big leap for me. I decided to go full in on my coaching business as my full time job. Similar to many people, 2019 was a hard year for me. I was super excited about 2020. I was ready to take on the world of the unknown to the point that I even told my coach that my intention for 2020 was to explore and embrace the unknown and unexpected.
Wow – did I get to embrace it? And so did everyone else in the world. No one could have predicted that we would be facing a massive pandemic. We might have expected that the elections would be interesting and challenge us similar to the 2016 elections. Yet, who would have known that we were all going to be on lock down?
I’m not the only one that had ideas for how 2020 was going to go and what we wanted to accomplish. Each of us had dreams. We were on track to get that promotion we worked for all year. We took a new job and planned on relocating our family to a new city. We were planning a wedding and excited to share our love for each other with our friends and family. We were preparing to launch our own business.
Now. We wonder. Did I pick the wrong time? Should I have waited another year? Did I make a huge mistake? Am I ready for a promotion in the midst of all of this? What should I do?
Taking a step back. I realized that these are major but normal life transitions. They are exciting, exhilarating, scary, and challenging. They bring with them a touch of anxiety, hope, fear and maybe a touch of doubt. Toss in a major world crisis and they become SCARY, CHALLENGING and maybe even feel like a BIG MISTAKE.
For me, the thoughts running through my head oscillate between the normal level of fear for starting a business and a world crisis level of FEAR. Should I play the “safe” card and go find a job? Or stay the course?
What I know is that playing it safe isn’t usually the answer? I’m meant to stretch and grow. You are meant to stretch and grow. Our dreams are worth pursuing no matter what is going on around us. We can keep going and we don’t need to know the next step. We don’t need to know how or even where we are necessarily going to end up.
What we need is to believe. Belief in ourselves. Belief in our journey. When we choose faith, we can let go of worrying about the how. We can let go of worrying about how we will get somewhere and whether that somewhere is where we want to go. We will reconnect to our internal guidance and find that we are spending our days doing things to build an amazing life.
I am choosing faith. Faith that each day that I take action towards building my business will bring me to the next stop on my journey. Faith that my intuition will guide me. Faith that my intuition will see doors that I might not have seen if I focused on the how and the where. Faith that there are no mistakes, but paths to explore.
What will you choose?