Yesterday I had a call with my accountability partner. We were talking about struggles we were having and the idea that you have to focus on the right goals for you at any given point.
Until last week, for instance, I had been stumbling over a side project I had been trying to launch for nearly two years. Not getting it underway was a thorn in my side, but until about two weeks ago, I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. It wasn't the right time for that particular goal.
The Back Story
A few years ago (some of you might remember), I participated in the Care More Giving Circle challenge, along with several great ladies within this network and around the world. It was a life-changing project, and I think about it often. When it was over, I missed not having some intentional project going that was focused on giving back, so soon after, I set out to start the "Give Back Project."
The only problem - I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I couldn't figure out how to make it work. I didn't know what it was supposed to be.
The Interim Story
Meanwhile, I put my real estate business on a (likely permanent) hiatus and started a web design company. Since it always seemed that I was working on side "projects" and since web design was (up to that point) a one-project-at-a-time thing for me, I decided to call my site BrownBugProject.com. That way, on any site I created, I would put "A Brown Bug Project" in the footer, sort of as my mark.
Today's Story
I didn't intentionally name the two concepts that way (both with "project" in the name, that is). I didn't even realize it until a while after I started BrownBugProject, but as soon as I did, I knew I wanted to incorporate the Give Back Project into the business somehow.
The only problem (still) - I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I couldn't figure out how to make it work. I didn't know what it was supposed to be.
It has nagged at me until just two weeks ago, when it finally came to me what the Give Back Project was supposed to be. I would make it a "websites for success" program, where I'd create a website (for free) for an aspiring small business owner who did not have the resources to pay for a designer - hence, for me, a give back project.
Within two weeks time, I had the entire concept planned, implemented, and added to my business website. After nearly two years of struggling, it came together so easily!
The Moral, I Guess
It was finally the right goal at the right time. Without sounding too "new-agey," I really think that the universe (or something - subconscious, maybe) has a way of getting in the way when we're trying to force the wrong thing into our lives at the wrong time, and that's just what happens - we end up trying to force it, and it's a struggle.
Now if I could just figure out when to be persistent and not give up (when that's the order of the day) and when to defer a dream to a better time and place.
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