Ask Others, Trust Yourself by Elisa Balabram

What do you do when chaos happens in your business? When unforeseen events crash what you’ve been creating for years, what do you need to do?

I have been going through a chaotic situation, as both my sites crashed a few weeks ago.

First I felt numbness and shock, not understanding why that had happened and how to proceed. Once that energy was moved, I started to research possible solutions. I’m glad that AskOthersTrustYourself.com is back up, while the other site is still going through maintenance and a re-visioning process.

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A few weeks ago I was invited to attend a weekend for Reiki Masters and healers retreat in Cape May. I knew some of the people attending it but not all. I also knew that many of the attendees had attended other retreats together and were very close to each other. After I said “Yes, I’m attending it”, I felt the fear of feeling like a fish out of water.

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How do you recognize when you had an inspired moment?

I think that most of the time, we are going through our daily lives not paying attention to it. How about if we set the intention to realize and appreciate the inspired moments? How would that day look like? Would you spend the day wondering if and when inspiration would come? Would you ask for it to come at a specific time so that you would notice it? Would you just live your day as you always have? Or would you stay more present each moment, so that you would recognize when you had an inspired thought or action?

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The other day, someone who had visited both WomenandBiz.com and AskOthersTrustYourself.com told me that he could clearly see my professional passion. I stopped for a moment to think about it. He is right, I’m passionate about helping women pursue their dreams, find their passion, and achieve balance. However, I don’t spend all day long thinking about what’s my passion, if I’m pursuing it the right way or enough. It just happens that I’m most attracted to reading about women’s issues, reading non-fiction books that help me become a better coach and writer, helping women become their best selves, and promoting women’s equality and achievements.

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As you may have watched, I recorded a video a few weeks ago to promote the self-discovery day I’m launching.

I certainly welcome feedback, and I ended up being criticized for doing it alone. Either it was the wrong lighting, the wrong distance to the camera, (I agree with all comments), hey maybe the wrong person to be in the video… 😉 You will see from the video that I recorded it myself (I used a Flip Camera). I’m actually proud that I was able to edit the video, and delete myself starting and stopping the recording.

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It doesn’t. Well, I remember a few years ago, during the webcast that Oprah hosted with Eckhart Tolle, someone posted a question that he keeps worrying about paying bills, and Eckhart Tolle mentioned that worrying would not pay the bills. It makes sense. Worrying won’t bring you the results you need, but realizing that you feel worried and taking action will.

What can you do today to stop worrying and start doing? What are the small and big steps you can take to make something happen?

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Have you stopped to think about what’s really stopping you? What’s stopping you from writing your book/starting your business/growing your business/launching your blog/building your website/doing something you’ve always dreamed of?

Sometimes we just stay in the idea stage, and we keep thinking – wouldn’t it be nice if…

Other times we do decide to take action, but we get stuck planning and planning and planning and we never act.

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I’m well aware that I have an accent when I speak English and I’ve decided to make peace with the fact that I also write with an accent. Although I have been writing in English for many years, I still have an accent. Over time I’ve learned to let go of the few negative feedbacks I received on posts I’ve written.

I could have chosen to go in many directions:

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Recently I took a leap of faith and applied through a competitive process, to work on a project for a person I admire. I was really excited about this opportunity, but a week later I found out that I wasn’t selected. At first, I felt disappointed; I was really looking forward to the opportunity to learn from him and to this new experience. I allowed myself to feel sad and go through the negative thoughts that came up. Soon after I gave myself permission to feel that way, those feelings and thoughts went away. I also received some encouraging emails from supportive friends.

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For the past couple of years, I’ve been a part of a woman’s group called “Creative Conversations”. Take a look at one of the group founders’ posts about one of our meetings here: Creative Times, A Blog for Artists and Entrepreneurs, by Eleanor Traubman. We meet regularly and discuss different topics and work on unique projects as a group. This December meeting is about reviewing our accomplishments in 2010. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, since I’m co-organizing it this time. I realized that it is important to consider all areas of life, because if you are disappointed that you haven’t accomplished something huge, you may be leaving out the smaller accomplishments you’ve achieved so far.

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