I just started the One Funnel Away Challenge after it was highly recommended to me by a friend to help me sell my online course.
I’ve just finished the pre week which is all about belief and mindset, and exactly what I need right now. There are action steps to take throughout the course, and the first is this.
Today’s challenge. Be introspective. Realise with brutal honesty where you are and where you are not. What are your false beliefs?
Steve Larson who led the session then said I dare you to publish it. So, here goes.
Right now, I’m sat outside writing on my laptop whilst staying at an Airbnb in Greece. I’m actually in the situation right now that I often dreamed of doing — only, I expected to be doing this years down the line once we were more settled — owned a home and had more money etc.
Instead, we’re in Greece because our landlord sold our flat. So, instead of rushing the process of finding somewhere new, we put all of our stuff into storage and got an Airbnb for a month in Greece — Maybe we’ll stay longer! I feel we made a potentially bad situation, into a positive here which is something I try hard to do, but it also feels unsettling at the same time.
I’m not someone who shares a lot of personal struggles a lot — especially online, even though it’s supposed to be good for building rapport etc. Most of the time, I try to work through the obstacle, and admittedly, I want to share more of these personal struggles because it’s always useful for me when I hear how other people overcome things.
Right now work wise, things feel challenging. I’d spent over a year creating an online course for yoga teachers who would like to take on more personal yoga students. I’ve tried a bit to sell it, but I’m still yet to make a sale so I feel a lot of pressure from myself to make this work.
The whole process of creating the course was really enjoyable and I felt very much in flow. And then once I’d finished, I hit what can only be described as a metaphorical brick wall. Things seemed to stop flowing and I kept facing a series of mini obstacles and a whole bunch of insecurities came bubbling to the surface. Rather than feeling happy that I’d finished my project, I felt really scared at the thought of putting it out there.
For a year I’d worked very much in a vacuum by myself. Although I love being around other people when I work, I love working predominantly by myself on projects. And so my biggest challenge right now is feeling comfortable putting it out there and being open to criticism from others without taking it completely personally or blowing things out of perspective. This is the time to interact more and start building more of an online community but I just feel like retreating.
Right now, I feel incredibly small — like a little creature who just wants to retreat into a shell or a caterpillar who daren’t become a butterfly (I keep seeing beautiful black and yellow butterflies).
So, my false beliefs are all centred around feeling not good enough in some way. Creating this course in the first place has massively pushed me out of my comfort zone and I’ve had this niggling voice throughout the process tell me ‘who are you to do this?’ I’ve had a lot of support around me, but a lot of these insecurities come from my own inner self talk.
Something that’s been on my mind a lot recently though has been finding the balance between being in a state of flow and synchronicity, whilst also facing and dealing with obstacles effectively. You often hear that when you’re heading in the right direction, it’s all flow and ‘look how great and smooth everything is’, but no one really talks about the obstacles actually being a necessary part of the process.
But what happens when you do hit obstacles and you don’t know which way to head next? What happens when things just don’t seem to be flowing? Then what? I’m not going to list everything here, but in the context of selling my course, my biggest obstacle right now is knowing which route to go down to effectively sell it. Every time I tried something, I felt like I was hit with a big sign telling me to turn back or go away.
There was a part in the video where Steve Larson held up a coin that said on one side “The Obstacle is the Way.”
I can’t tell you what a relief this was to hear. I know on the surface and out of context it sounds like typical common sense advice but when he held the coin up I felt like a weight had been lifted. I want to enjoy the selling process just as much as much as creating the course and treat this challenge as a chance to learn and implement the teachings.
Bring on week 1!
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