Hello! I’m back! :)
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Hello! I’m back! :)
In a move possibly only noticed by me, I’ve been verrrrry quiet on here for the last 7 weeks. Here’s what I was up to.
🍂 I went away for vacation in Banff at the beginning of September (gorgeous, perfect)
🤧 I came back and promptly got covid (0/5, would not recommend)
🪔 I recovered just in time for Navaratri celebrations with my family (Navaratri = Diwali’s cooler, more fun cousin)
🇬🇧 Then I did a quick trip to the UK to move my sister into grad school at Cambridge
(where I discovered that the only thing better than going to your dream school is being related to the person going to their dream school :)
🌉 And then I went to SF to speak at the Harvard Asian Alumni Alliance West Coast Summit
(what I thought would be “a work trip” ended up being SUCH a blast)
Not that a busy schedule prevents me from writing — putting out regular content has been a core pillar of my business from the beginning.
I also stepped away because I thought I needed time to think.
I’ve been feeling stuck about what to do next in my business for a very long time.
I’ve got the little machine that I’ve already built, that hums along and pumps out revenue on a steady basis.
But I knew that this wasn’t it. I knew I wanted more.
But what exactly was the “more” that I wanted?
And how was I supposed to get there?
These questions swirled in my mind 24/7 and came to a head every Sunday evening…
When the simple act of planning my week would frequently make me break down into frustrated tears.
Where the heck am I trying to go? And how the heck do I get there?
I finally hit a breaking point in September, and I declared:
Dammit, I need time to THINK.
I need to step back and ANSWER these questions so I can figure out how to move forward.
So I paused writing.
I put all but the most critical projects on hold.
I even considered canceling a week of client calls and taking myself on a solo strategy offsite.
But before I could do that, the answer came to me from the most unexpected place.
It didn’t come from all my thinking.
It emerged in the middle of the inconvenient “doing” that was clogging up my thinking time.
Dreamlike, from a constellation of unrelated events…
Like falling asleep and falling in love — slowly, and then all at once…
The answer came to me:
I DON’T need to think.
I actually need to get through 100 failures as fast as possible.
Let me pause the story here for now.
Tomorrow, I’m going to tell you how I know this is the right answer.
And I’ll also tell you what all this means for you (because you don’t have to be a coach or an entrepreneur for this to apply to your situation).