I used to think that by me constantly starting new projects but rarely following them through to completion, was just another way that I was failing, being lazy, or not amounting to "enough."
I used to think there was something wrong with me because I'd get so excited about an idea, a project, an opportunity, and get friends and family all worked up with me, get the ball rolling and just lose interest. As quickly as the idea came, it fizzled away. It was extremely frustrating and I couldn't understand it. Then one day, I read a blog post from Tina Forysth, a Business Leverage Expert, who asked in the title, "Are you a Starter, Finisher, or Maintainer?" I read on. She said that a Starter is the person who has that bright, game changing idea. That person who gets the team excited about a project, brainstorms, dreams, envisions, and gets the project going. While a Finisher is that person who likes to get shit done! They can take someone else's idea or project, expand on it, and get it completed... just in time to start something new! A Maintainer is that person who manages the moving parts and ensures stability with the project and the people involved. They make sure all the I's are dotted and T's crossed. They keep the vision going on that day-today level. I am not a Maintainer. Reading this not only made me realize where my gifts lay but how important it is to be able to look at life with a different perspective. Here I was thinking that something was wrong with me because I couldn't keep the energy of my ideas flowing. I often felt less than and a failure and even stifling my creativity as to not have another idea, yet again, be snuffed out by my lack of full commitment. But by looking at this circumstance through my strengths, I was better able understand areas of opportunity, like learning to accept a Maintainer's assistance to move my projects towards success. Do you see how simply changing the perspective on this has also changed my mindset and destroyed a limiting belief I had created within myself? That's how powerful perspective is! It's a simple mind shift that can have the most impactful results. Where in your life can you 180 your perspective to create a more favorable result?
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AuthorI am Toni. A Woman of Color. A Wife and a Mother. A Creative and a Writer. A Mentor. Leo Sun, Gemini Moon, Sagittarius Rising. A Dreamer. A Magickal Lightworker full of Wild Energy...shall I go on? Archives
November 2019
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