Imagine, Believe and Act

Today is a good day. I wanted to share an experience with you that occurred to me last week. Now, this is not to brag, it is simply for me to share the insights that I had gained over the last few weeks. In my perspective, it is important as a business owner or a successful leader to have self-awareness – Known as emotional intelligence.

I received a message in my inbox on LinkedIn, around writing articles for this women’s magazine called Sibella Publications.  Of course, they were sending out expressions of interests, looking for contributors, who would become column writers for the upcoming year. Gosh, time is flying by so fast!

I saw the invitation and simply pushed it out of my mind, thinking that it would be great to do a column monthly; as I do enjoy writing real conversations. I pushed it aside, and simply continued my work; however, I just couldn’t get this invitation out of my thoughts. My self-talk went from, what would the point be, I am not a good writer, and do I really have anything to contribute?

I started to doubt myself, and then I went through the process of what have I got to lose? Really, what would I tell my clients to do? How would it hurt if I just tried?

I had the ability to switch my thinking over, to be more positive, proactive and started to get really excited in the prospect of being an international writer for a magazine that had over 70,000 readers. You know, it gets published worldwide. Yep, now I was getting excited. I started to imagine that it could be me that is selected, and why not?

So, I wrote the article which only took me 30 minutes, then I hit the send button and it was done. I received the normal email back saying, that if you were successful, you will be notified.

Guess, what happened! I got selected, yes I got selected!  There were 450 applications and I was one of the 30 that got selected. Can you believe it! Now, I am committed to writing an article for this magazine monthly for a whole year. How good is that?

What did I learn – that if you can imagine it, then believe in it, and act you can achieve it.

Is there something that you have been putting off? Something that will make you excited. Then simply do it – who knows I may be hearing a story just like this from you!

Imagine, Believe, Act, Achieve

Cheers

Lee Stemm

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