Get this thing out of my head!

I’m off to a running start in 2013 having been tremendously inspired by Seth Godin’s event on Wednesday in NYC. It’s as if he heard what I was planning for this year and then developed a talk to completely support and encourage my efforts. I believe that when you’re on the right track, synchronicity makes continual appearances. I am so pumped to launch my new project.

Hold that thought.

On another front, I met someone recently who is taking a life-changing step, in fact, today. She left this morning for California, not to return to New York until the first of May. When she shared what this was all about, I immediately thought to myself, “I want to do that!” I told a few close friends who didn’t even blink an eye, but said, “It’s yours, Jane!” I would undertake this a year from now in order to get plans and preparations in place.

So, here I am ready to launch a great new initiative. I’m working with a fabulous marketing consultant and a terrific virtual assistant to roll this out, and we’re ready to go live next week. There’s some legalese we need to iron out, so I mentioned this seed of the other plan to my marketer. Her email back, to me and my VA said to hold the launch and to please not post/schedule anything until she revised the copy.

Looking at this now, I see that it is completely benign. But, some saboteur in my head, when I first read it, saw this:

We can’t go ahead with this. Jane is pulling a fast one and throwing a monkey wrench into the works, and I’m going to have to pull the plug on the whole thing because I’m working with a crazy woman.

Did you read that in her message? Something inside of me wants to deny myself my divine inspiration, make me wrong and punish myself into thinking I need to put off this thrilling opportunity until I’ve paid all my dues and fulfilled some unspoken commitment that I haven’t even made yet.

My question to you is, do you ever do that to yourself? Talk yourself out of a magnificent idea or opportunity minutes after you’ve come up with it?

I can’t wait to share ALL of this with you, when I’ve got the right words, and also to hear what your cuckoo gremlins are telling you. I’m so glad I can recognize what games my mind is playing and talk myself off the ledges of my own creation.