More Than WE Know

If you’ve already felt yourself coming down with the first two symptoms of Spring Fever: Restlessness and Lack of Focus, it’s likely that the third symptom: Impatience is not far behind.

Ironically, the treatments I advised for Lack of Focus - “give in to your daydreaming”, might even make this symptom worse!

The more you imagine the way your business and your life could be - the more impatient you can become for it to happen. 

You want what you want - and you want it Now!!

This can be frustrating and irritating.  But it is actually a good sign.

Like a fever spiking and finally breaking when you have the flu - impatience is a sign that you are done dreaming - and are ready for action!!

Without impatience - you might spend forever living in your beautiful technicolor fantasies of the life you will have Someday.

But with impatience - you find the energy and the motivation to make that Someday come Sooner.

So - how do you channel the nervous energy that comes with impatience?

A byproduct of all that daydreaming you’ve been doing is that you’ve been building up your creative muscle. Now’s the time to flex that strength by channeling your creativity into constructive action.

1. Imagine that you have achieved the life you dream of - successful business, balanced homelife, whatever it means to you.  Now imagine you are being interviewed by a talk show host (Oprah? Larry King?)  and they ask you - “How exactly did you achieve this success?”  Imagine your answer and listen to what you have to say.
2. Now imagine that they ask you, “What advice do you have for other women entrepreneurs who want to achieve the same success you have?”  Again, imagine your answer and listen to what you have to say.
3. And then, they ask you “What’s next for you? Where do you go from here?” This is an interesting question - because you’ve already achieved your success - but you might be surprised to find out what comes out of your imaginary mouth - even more success than you’ve already imagined!! 

I could have just said take your dreams, turn them into goals and come up with an action plan.  But that’s a routine task for New Year’s Day. 

This is Spring when imagination, creativity and zeal rule the day.  We need to keep those creative juices flowing to keep the enthusiasm high.

And once you’ve done this exercise (and the imaginary audience has given you an imaginary round of applause!!) you will be left with:

• an action plan of how to achieve your goal
• cautionary advice of what to avoid or what to remember to do
• an even bigger and more exciting future goal to keep you motivated for achieving the next level of success

You’ll be ready to channel your creativity and energy into action.  So, welcome that Springtime impatience and use it to hurry your success along its way!! 

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