Question from Client: You are a Potential Empathy, so what makes it possible for you to get so much done…or should I say stay focused? Is it because you are in familiar territory?
Short answer: I decide and decide quickly! People flounder when they’ve made anything other than a 100% decision. I decide 100% and start moving forward. As Kristin Sweeting Morelli says,
The antidote to overwhelm and confusion is to pick a horse and ride it. You’re never going to pick a perfect horse, but just pick one and ride it. – Kristin Sweeting Morelli
Longer answer: I seek inspiration by praying specifically for answers. I expect an answer and wait for what feels like a “download” to my mind about what action to take. Then I IMMEDIATELY set to work on it. Over time, the practice of asking, receiving and acting immediately develops some kind of connection where line upon line I get the actions I need to take. Many times I don’t even have a big vision or a focus. Or perhaps I have one, but don’t remember it!
For example, I started IdeaMarketers in 1998 as a place to promote people I believed in. It didn’t have enough traffic. It was missing something. The idea came for an article directory. I shifted my direction and built it. Over time, I modified and tweaked until by 2007 the site was big enough that it became a publicity engine for experts. Originally, article marketing felt like a change of direction or a detour, but it still took me where I wanted to go.
In 2007, I remember thinking, “Oh, I see now Lord! This is where we were going all along!” I didn’t honestly piece together or remember that it was my original intention to promote people, because I only tried that for a couple months and gave up. It took me a few years after starting our expert program to have that aha moment of, “Hey, I’m doing what I originally set out to do!”
So bottom line — I might consciously lose my big vision, but my heart knows it, and God knows it. If I seek His help every step of the way, He takes me on a journey to make it happen.
Interestingly enough, not until I just wrote this did I realize that now more than ever I’m doing what I originally set out to do … promote people I believe in on IgnitePoint. I’m not interested in promotiong “just anybody.” They have to be folks I believe in, and that’s what this site is about. Yeah, fun!
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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