“So what do you do? ANYTHING! Something! So long as you just don’t sit there. If you screw it up, start over. Try something else. If you wait until you’ve satisfied all the uncertainty, it may be too late.” ~Lee Iacocca
Lisa Sasevich teaches people to speak and sell from the stage. She helps them create more effective closes.
As part of her training, she runs a MasterMind group. That group costs between $25,000-$50,000 a year. NOT chump change. She generally had +/- 50 participants. Mostly women. Driven, dynamic women with great ideas of what they wanted to accomplish.
Some of those women followed Lisa’s step by step approach to building a successful business. And guess what. They built successful businesses.
But some members of her group got stuck in the planning phase. All they did was plan. And revise. And plan some more. They spent the $50,000 to plan. They never took action. Lisa tried to get them to take action, but for some, the ACTION step was overwhelming. They preferred to plan.
Sitting by the sidelines. Planning. Watching. Studying. Organizing. Getting the ducks in a line. Thinking about it a little more. Waiting until you know more. Waiting until the economy is better. Waiting until you know the big picture. Talking about it with friends. Talking with family. Talking with strangers. Joining groups. Setting goals. Working hard.
But never getting off the bench.
Never actually stepping in.
Never put yourself out there.
What needs to change to get ACTION?
What do you need to know or do before you start?
There’s never going to be a better time.
You’re never going to have all the answers.
Fly the plane while you’re still building it.
You’re the acorn.
It would have been great to have been planted 20 years ago. But the next best time is now.
It’s GO TIME.
No excuses.
No stories.
Don’t hold back.
Be all in.
You are wearing a white lab coat. It’s an experiment. Try. Analyze. Review. Retry.
What is it that enables some people to take “MASSIVE ACTION” as Tony Robbins calls it, while others are unable to get out of the starting box?
It’s NOT something OUT THERE. It’s NOT something they don’t know or understand.
It IS something deep within them. Something at their core that haunts them.
That something is FEAR. Fear of not being good enough. You might want to call it fear of failure or fear of success or fear of embarrassing themselves.
But it falls back onto the fear of not being good enough.
It’s from something OLD … some old magic inside of them that hampers them from being able to shift from PLANNING into DOING.
When you sit in that fear, you create your own reality. You think you aren’t good enough to do it, so you never really go all out to do it. And you fail because you didn’t really try. Because if you had REALLY tried and failed, you would be a failure. In your mind. Not in the world.
If you tried and failed, you would have succeeded! You would have gotten out of the started box and into the ring. You would have learned what didn’t work so well so you would know so much better what could work. You would have LOTS of information that you could use so that the next time, you would do it differently and get different results.
What needs to change, to fuel ACTION, is the self-talk in your head. It’s not what OTHER people are telling you—it’s what you tell yourself. That’s what holds you back from advancing.
Know this. You are eminently capable and can do whatever you set your mind to. All it takes is ACTION. ANY ACTION!
The momentum from the action will propel you forward.
I can tell you—it’s WAY more exciting to try and see what happens then to be perpetually thinking about coulda shoulda woulda.
Take your desire from the dream stage into reality.
It’s going to be great fun!
Keep your analytical hat on and see what works, revise what doesn’t, and go at it again!
You’ve got this!
Best,
Alicia
PS. How will it feel to be in the race instead of just practicing? Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Time to play full out. And have fun! Because hey, who doesn’t need more fun!
