I think I’ve finally worked out why so many business programs, and business coaches, don’t work for me…
No business mentor has ever taken me as a whole entity. They have all wanted me to pick one thing and focus on that… whether it’s my workshops, Junior Writers Club, books, administration tasks, or whatever. They want me to choose one thing to focus on.
Here’s the thing… my brain simply doesn’t work that way.
Everything I do is simply part of me. It’s who I am.
I simply can’t focus on one thing for too long, I need the variety. It’s the variety that makes my life interesting and helps my brain stay engaged.
I need the more ‘boring’ tasks of bookkeeping and administration.
I need the creative things where I can hide away from people, like writing my books.
I need my workshops for the social interaction.
I need the online, the offline, the craziness of it all.
And here is where business programs fail me.
They try to push me in their box, to make me fit their view of what makes a successful business.
They simply don’t see that my brain needs something different, and if I had the right supports in the craziness that is my brain, it could all be successful, it just doesn’t look like they think a business should look like.
What triggered this thinking is that an amazing opportunity has come up. It’s something that I have been dreaming about for a long time and fits in the big picture banner that is me, however, it doesn’t fit with any of the ideas the business coaches think I should be doing…
I wish that business coaches and business programs were designed to embrace my weird brain instead of being told to reign in my ideas, as when I do, nothing happens!
I also wish that I had the confidence and resources to forget about traditional business programs and find the supports I need on my own… but right now, I don’t have that.
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