Being brave 5 seconds at a time

I love what I do... but there are just some days when being an entrepreneur is so terrifying.

And I love my imagination, it makes what I do possible... it helps me see the things I want to make, it helps me visualize what my customer wants, it helps me "see the future" and prepare for eventualities. 

But I'm realizing more and more that these aspects of my imagination are a double-edged sword.  Yes, my imagination can help me visualize, but it can also take me places where I don't belong (yet), places where I shouldn't go (yet).

Generally speaking, when I let myself skip too far ahead that's when I become afraid. 

This "trap door" became painfully apparent to me when I recently started taking classes at Sandler Training in Wexford.  After my soul-searching experience this week, I came home and was thinking to myself, "What the hell have I gotten myself into?"

My Sandler coach, Jen (great name :), and I talked a lot about how the fear of success holds a lot of people back.  And I realized, I am totally one of those people!

I'm a one woman show, I do it all... the designing, the making, the marketing, the accounting, the selling, the photography, the inventory, the social media, etc, etc, etc.  I'm busy enough to be busy but not busy enough to be self-sufficient yet... and even now, there are days when I feel overwhelmed.

Sometimes, when I imagine success... it feels a lot like exhaustion and burn out. 

But I keep thinking about something so wise that Jen said to me: "it's all about being brave 5 seconds at a time."  One step at a time.  One step at a time.  One step at a time.  Until I get to where I'm going.