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, the Founder of CEO Rise and philanthropist co-founder of Cultivar Cartagena, otherwise known as the Jewish Mother Dominatrix.
Growing up, I was a messy kid with "lots of potential" that I never seemed to live up to, and it never sat well with me. I knew there had to be a way to tap into the natural gifts of non-linear thinking and still be as successful as those neat, organized people.
For the first 10 years of my business I worked as a Professional Organizer ultimately specializing in hoarders threatened with eviction in New York City. I learned, very tangibly, how to help people cut out the things they don't need, get clear on the things they do, and work with their unique way of thinking to make changes for the long term.
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Helping ADHDish entrepreneurs & creatives declutter, focus and grow.
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