Mountains of Arizona
Clouds 71 Degrees
8:21 a.m.
Back in February, I had a client come through the Platform Lab.
Over the four week program, I worked with her to get some clarity on how to create and focus her media platform to help build her business.
Does anyone ever have TOO MUCH clarity? I don’t know. But she walked away with enough to start taking action publishing her weekly newsletter.
Here we are, six months later, and she sends me this update:
I wanted to let you know that after about 6 months of consistently writing one letter a week to my community, things are starting to ‘happen’.
Hard going for months, as I didn’t really understand what problems I was solving, or what I wanted to specialise in.
Over time, I came to realise people want to form deep and lasting connections with others. And I’m really good at that. So by showing them how, the right people are showing up as clients.
Just as you said it would happen, people are appearing from no-where, saying “I’m ready to work with you, on your terms”. Someone even recently said to me “just send me your bill”. (?!)
I’ve adapted your approach and advice and made it mine (i.e. my unique flair). This has made things even more powerful.
It’s not easy, but it really is the only way to becoming the incomparable expert. I think my next step is to fully step into the light, and not being afraid to do it (charge without fear).
It’s a work in progress. Thank you.
Well, she summed it up pretty well: It’s a work in progress.
We’ve been trained to think that’s a way to tell the world we’re not “there” yet. But the truth is that it’s all a work in progress, for as along as we’re alive. We’re never there, no matter where there is.
When you reconfigure your relationship with the phrase “work in progress,” you let go of that emotional junk that makes you feel like you’re not successful.
You can give up the “woe is me” connotation we’ve been taught to feel with that phrase and replace it with the feeling of expecting the best knowing that we are contributing to real change in the future by doing the work in the present.
This journey is about doing the work.