And can I tell you something? I freaking well did!
I was that kid on the schoolyard flogging off random pieces of junk for 20c a pop until the evil powers that be (Grade 1 teacher, what a bitch haha!) shut down my enterprise and I had to go all black market.
When I was 5 I figured out I doubled my sales of oranges and lemons door to door (thanks Grandmother and Grandfather for the bounty!) if I took my 2 year old brother with me. Cuteness factor sells! And I had NO shame – I’d sell half-assed drawings for 10c door to door because I knew people wouldn’t say no to me! And I knew that for every no I DID end up getting I was more likely to get a yes the next time around!
Life is pretty awesome when you act as though nothing can touch or stop you!
Of course somewhere along the way I started to grow up.
I still believed in having it all, living life on my terms, being fearless about what I set out to do. But I guess I became … CAREFULLY fearless. I knew I’d be an entrepreneur and mad rich, change the world even, but at some point my approach to doing this changed from “well I just will!”, to “how will I?”, and then eventually to “how SHOULD I?”
And that, if I’m honest, is where it all began.
The downward slide into should, into can I, into what’s the RIGHT way and do you like it and is it OKAY?
You know?
You know 🙂
But here’s something that is REALLY interesting.
When I look back on the things that have kicked the MOST ass in my business – and life – they’re the things I did without thinking about whether I should or could or even whether it made any sense at all!
I just DID them.
I just decided to.
I just wanted to!
Because it was cool or because it seemed fun or because why the hell not!
Like deciding to do the Tough Mudder race with basically no prep just for the hell of it and then having the most crazy fun time of my adult life even though I seriously thought a few of those challenges were going to kill or maim me!
Like launching stuff off the top of my head that I JUST thought of that day and then having it become a 6-figure income stream … something that has happened on MORE than one occasion in my business when I’ve fucked the shoulds and just gone into my heart and soul and unleashed what’s in there with no expectation or demand of how it should look. Weirdly the LESS I plan my launches or promos or worry about whether they sell and the more I just go from what’s in me even though it might be TOTALLY random and make no sense, the more money I make! Weird … hmmm!!
Like packing up my entire house and family 2 weeks after my son was born, which was after an INSANE scary crazy awful pregnancy, and just … leaving. And now nearly 2 years later still living location free, traveling the world in first class fine style! Did I mention I had less than $200 in the bank when we left Melbourne?! I just wanted to and so I MADE IT HAPPEN.
Like pitching big name successful podcasts and publications that I was TERRIFIED of reaching out to (fear of rejection runs deep in this one!!) and then having them say YES, that sounds great!
Like telling someone I love that I want them even though it made me so vulernable and I was so scared of being knocked back or looking like a fool.
Like walking out of a marriage that wasn’t that bad but just wasn’t that good, even though the judgement from family and friends was NOT going to be fun.
Like writing a freaking 2500 word blog post every day and then sending multiple emails per day even when it breaks ALL the rules but yet it’s made me my million $$$ biz!
Like saying what I actually think …
Doing what I actually want …
TRUSTING in my actual God damn RIGHT to live a life of awesome …!