Lousy audience, your game or mine?

Seth Godin wrote;
“Creativity loves a problem, but it hates a lousy audience.
If everyone around you is sure the economy is tanking, that the end is near, that time is up and the company is headed for the tubes, it’s almost impossible to find a creative solution.
Creativity changes the game, whatever game is being played.
For example “We’re going to run out of cash by the end of the year,” is accurate unless you count creativity into the equation. Then the accurate statement is, “…Under the current rules and assumptions, we’re going to run out of cash”.
Big difference.

Seth is spot on about lousy audiences.
They do ruin creativity.
It’s no fun performing in front of unsympathetic eyes, I can tell you.

For years it had been my own conservative *inner little voice* that became my lousy audience.

Give yourself a break. How many roles can a woman cope with?

We all know about busy.
It’s a constant complaint women have and yet I ask myself “Are we really that busy?”
I mean, are we really as overworked and overwhelmed as we say we are?

To loyal women. Get out!

This is for loyal women, for those loyal women stuck in relationships.
Let me tell you, your relationships won’t last, even with all the loyalty you can muster.
Get out! With velocity.

Talking; do we women do it naturally well?

It is a myth that we women can talk well about anything and everything as by birthright.
I mean we can chat very well but what about that real talking, that real valuable sharing that will get us somewhere?
I don’t think we do it naturally; I personally had to learn how to do that kind of real talking.

I keep my thoughts at home. They do better there than anywhere else.

Part of doing things differently is keeping my thoughts at home and be more conscious of what I do with my thoughts.

I am busy with lots of things to do.
Like most of you.
Most of us work, have properties to look after, have relationships, are busy with sports, children and other numerous activities that demand our time, attention and efforts.
I have more than enough on my plate than to think about things that are none of my business.

Doesn’t it make sense then to be careful with where I put my energy and how I choose my thoughts?

Me and fear, I can’t do *different* alone.

I have a real fear of going into the unknown, which is quite a handicap if you want to do things differently. The fear for the unknown shows in my fear for mazes; I hate mazes. The good ones where you really cannot see where you are going freak me out completely. I normally avoid these kind of things as I prefer to stay well within the boundaries of my capability and comfort.

Doing different things.

One day however I got completely caught out by the unknown.

Money does grow on trees.

I have to confess. Money and I have been strangers to each other for a long time; we talked a different language and I feared how it behaved. 
I said “come in and stay in” and money wanted to go out.
I said “money is scarce and hard to come by”; money said; “I am abundant, just grab me but also let me go.”
Obviously there was a lot of misunderstanding and a lot of ignorance going on!

Are you actually ever really learning?

How often are you actually really learning in your life?
That falling on your face and lying there for all to see type of learning?
That kind of learning that bruises your ego, that makes you feel emotions, that takes you on a road you have never been before?
That learning, that ‘playing on the field’ learning, because you do want to learn to do things differently?

I have done that a lot lately, that real scary learning as part of developing our own online business and overcoming my own belief “I cannot do this.”

Today was such a learning day.