When you have hope, you naturally take action to achieve your goals/desires, and it feels good.
When you feel hopeless, you stop trying, and it feels worse.
But what to do then? Just give up?
Grace Paley knew she wanted to be a poet at 17 and even studied with W.H. Auden, but it took 20 more years to publish anything.
From there, though, she went on to teach writing, publish many books and collections, and win sundry awards.
That is to say- her dream took time, but she didn't lose hope. She kept taking action, and it worked- even though the flourishing of her career took almost the first half of her life to come to fruition.
Many people wait for motivation to strike. But that's backwards. Because motivation doesn't appear- it's built.
Action creates motivation (which is literally measurable in your prefrontal cortex), and that motivation makes it easier to keep going.
As someone who's experienced hopelessness more times than I can count, I can virtually guarantee you the power of action to reconnect with hope.
I have tons more to say about this, but I'll leave it here on this fine Friday, and we'll talk more next week.
Remember: when in doubt or despair- take action.
It might take time to see the results, but the action itself changes everything.
Leah Fisch is the Founder of CEO Rise and philanthropist co-founder of Cultivar Cartagena — otherwise known as the Jewish Mother Dominatrix.
A self-described messy kid with "lots of potential" she never seemed to live up to, Leah spent her first decade in business as a Professional Organizer specializing in hoarders threatened with eviction in New York City. She learned, very tangibly, how to help people cut what they don't need, get clear on what they do, and make change that actually lasts — even for the people everyone else had given up on.
Today she brings that same framework to ADHDish entrepreneurs — helping them build businesses that work in their weird and wild way.
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Helping ADHDish entrepreneurs & creatives declutter, focus and grow.
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