Only You Know What Is Possible For You
Heather Monahan
Top 50 Keynote Speaker | TED Speaker | Top 20 Business Podcast: Creating Confidence | 2X Best-Selling Author | Board Member | 2024 Top Executive Coach | Subscribe to My Newsletter for Exclusive Content
At first, everyone asks WHY you’re doing it. Later they’re all asking HOW you did it.
Here’s how I did it:
When I got fired at 43 years old, I decided to shine a light on it.
I decided to reframe getting fired as In Good Company!
I researched successful people who had been fired and found a big list that included:
J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs and Mark Cuban to name a few.
Then I posted about it:
"After 14 years of continuous advancement, I have just been fired. If I have ever done anything to help you, I would love to hear from you now."
That post went viral and Froggy from the Elvis Duran show tweeted at me, "How can I help?"
One thing I learned is that when people offer to help you, convert that opportunity in the moment. I tweeted back, "Book me on the show" and he did.
I didn't know what we would talk about but I knew I would reach a larger audience which would help me expand my network.
Halfway through the show Elvis said to me, "Obviously you are writing a book!"
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I smiled and agreed. The funny thing is I wasn't writing a book until Elvis told me I was. In that moment he passed his belief in me to me and I ran with it.
I had no idea how to write a book so I googled it. Turns out the key is just to sit down and write.
Listen to you and your ideas over everything. Believe whole heartedly in them. If you don’t, why would anyone else?
Understand feeling scared is a good thing. Accepting this will allow fear to pass.
Change represents a loss of some kind and letting go of familiar is exactly the loss that you need. You must let go of mediocre if you want to grab great.
Protect your ideas early on when they are the most vulnerable. I didn’t tell anyone I was writing my first book Confidence Creator until I was done.
Take massive action and no matter what obstacles you meet just keep going. You will begin to see the dots connect if you don’t give up on you.
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To be continued...
Lake Lanier & Gainesville REALTOR???
3 年Super inspirational and completely opened my eyes to exactly what the next steps are in the next chapter of my life! ???
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3 年Good evening Heather Monohan, Its' seem Me, That I Have You already answer, at your proposition of Buy your Books with a price to much expensive, in regard at The promess To be profitable, in My Position of Conseils-Engineering, Best regards Jacques AEBI
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3 年Hi Heather, I like the way your mind works and would love to subscribe to here you just tell it - [ HOW IT IS ]. Can't tell you how refreshing that really is. #Peoplebuypeople and and I'm sold. I feel people at times, try way too hard to create perspectives that are just proxy's of other people. Key Take Away: "Be yourself everyone else is already taken". - Oscar Wilde
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3 年Very motivating. ? I’ve been thinking about writing a book. Part of me thinks everyone should write a book. I already have a tentative title. Curious if you think about your target audience when you start writing ??