Your anxiety about marketing isn’t a problem, but your attempts to avoid the anxiety by overthinking and overcontrolling are creating problems.

You’re being hard on yourself for feeling anxiety that’s normal, and you’re trying to avoid more anxiety by creating expectations of yourself that aren’t in line with reality. And when you can’t keep up, you don’t promote your business like you should… and anxiety and pressure build.  Let’s get out of this pressure-cooker, it’s way too hot in here!

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How Can I Be More Creative? Feel Through Fear.

Know what’s really, really scary? Expressing what you deeply want. And there’s lots of ways fear keeps us from our own desires. If we’re looking at what stops us from being our Most Creative Selves, we have to look at Fear. Living the kind of creativity that motivates us to get out of bed every day means moving through fear. Period.

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How Can I Be More Creative? Grow Through The Guilt.

If you’re like me, you feel like there’s a List of Things You’re Allowed to Want. Pedicures and occasional dinners out are on my list, but only if the kids wore matching socks every day this week. Fulfillment that involves anything that’s not explicitly connected to the roles of wife and mother? Not on The List.

What keeps me sticking to The List year after year? Guilt. I cannot stand feeling the guilt.

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