“Hey, I want to do this thing, but this is what I’m thinking. This is where I’m stuck.“
I was speaking to a mentor on a call the other week, and I told him my problem. I was completely stuck, so I spewed my words all over him. I had a very good reason to not move forward, so I let him know about it.
“Ah yep, that’s a great idea! And that part you’re stuck on – let’s go there… Here’s what it sounds like to me from my end… see what you think as I repeat it back…”
In two minutes, he helped flipped my problem into something that looked possible. He had turned my monologue of garbage into ice cream.
Two days later, we executed on the project together and it went out the door.
Wrestling with our own narrative can be next to impossible.
When this internal struggle is going down, when we are in the trenches, we need to recognise that resistance, or “fear,” itself, is in the driving seat.
Logic isn’t in the room. We don’t think logically.
Get out for a walk, do some meditation, go exercise, break some plates, then get on a call* and see if there’s a way to reframe this stuff as fast as humanly possible.
Maybe there’s a way and it goes ahead, maybe it doesn’t, or maybe it turns out you just plain don’t want to do it…
But at least we get a check on our own narrative, which is usually the biggest elephant in the room trying to crush out our vision.
*This chat needs to be with someone who is able to inquire, lead, see and be open to possibility. If they simply support your narrative, a lot of times it will just double us down into quicksand.
