POP! Tip #7: Your Playdate with Destiny – What Does it Take to Launch?
Today we bring you the last in the series, POP! Tip #7: Your Playdate with Destiny – What does it take to Launch?
What are you launching? A book, product, or service? A rebirth of your career? A nonprofit or support group? Are you launching a new coaching or health-related business? Any of these endeavors deserve a stage. YOU deserve a stage. And right before launch is when STAGE FRIGHT can arise. For me I get nervous and bitchy around details I feel aren’t being managed. I rearrange the house. I shop online. I do a lot of brilliant idea generation–anything to avoid LAUNCHING…why? Why do so many of us do this?
Because it’s a little scary to get what you want–what if you get it and realize it’s not what you wanted? Or if you get it and…you liked wishing for it more than actually HAVING it?
I’ve been consulting for other people’s companies now for almost twenty years. Creating and naming products, services, and businesses for others is a blast. Media strategies make me swoon. Writing speeches? OMG bliss…
BUT, at a certain point, it becomes time to own our own creativity again. Pouring your love and energy into other people’s businesses and lives is great, but at the end of the day, what do you have that is yours? Do you have a website or container that will hold the life force, dreams, expressions, and passions that well up from deep inside of you? Or do you take that life force and exchange it for a consulting fee or paycheck? This isn’t wrong, as we all have bills to pay–but if you aren’t building something for yourself, it can feel like something is missing.
Launching your platform is like getting the house ready for a dinner party. You create beautiful graphics, imagery and prose. You dress up and do your hair. You spritz your favorite perfume on and light candles. You prep the food and arrange the flowers. When your guests arrive, what do you do? Run and hide in the bathroom? Lock the door and drink the wine and eat the food by yourself?
NO! You smile and welcome them warmly into the space you have created to exchange energy, love, ideas and conversation. You CONNECT with them and nourish them while they become delighted by your expression of hospitality and creativity.
That’s pretty much what launching an online platform is. It’s about connection, relationship and love.
So, if a majority of people who say they want to launch a book, program or business aren’t willing to master platform building–aka throwing the dinner party of marketing–then what will result?
A sea of “what ifs,” “should haves,” and “man, that was MY IDEA!s”
For me, it’s like having a ton of potential that never gets realized. Launching is the key to claiming your destiny. It’s the same as entertaining, it is FUN, fulfilling, and a little scary if you’re hosting new people and you find your kids have clogged the toilet or flung ketchup on the walls–oops, I digress. 🙂 But really, a launch is 90% preparation and 10% launch…
So let me ask you this.
What are you preparing for?
Are you preparing to launch your next creative project, a new goal, or are you in the limbo land of waiting and seeing…? If you have a dream, you need to prepare, work on it, pour your love into it and then at some point press the “Publish” button or the “Post” button or send the invites out…
You cannot hold your dream inside of you for your whole life without it making you a little crazy. You might burn the dinner but you’ll make up for it with the salad and dessert. You might have a broken link or a typo in your headline, or you might not even know how to build an online platform, but I assure you, if you set a date, you will find a way to do it.
So, set a date. Our date for launch with POP! is May 5th, 2019. On that day we will graduate the POP! Class of 2019. You are invited, I’ll be sending you all an online invite–you will get to see the POP!Stars introduce you to their new idea, platform, book, or upcoming product…you’ll get to witness the completion of 7 months of preparation, love and energy going into a dream.
You can watch it, or you can be part of it. Even if you aren’t able to sign up for POP! this time, you can take this series and use it as fuel to get closer to your dream.
We have one spot left for POP! 2019. If you want to play with us real-time, please let us know. If you can’t, don’t worry, you can still launch your dream alongside us. You can join us on May 5th 2019 and watch the POP! Stars introduce their dream to you. Either way, know this: You are treasured, and your dreams matter.
And that concludes my waxing POP! for this series! I love you all! If you made it this far, you are a true friend–I know these were long emails.
Again, you are bound to be successful. The world needs you to be. We need you to be heard and active. We need to reverse climate change. We need to free those in bondage. We need to feed the hungry. We need to be empowered to do all of this by first empowering our creative and passionate dreams. We can only be what we allow ourselves to be.
Here’s to your Imminent Success!
Zhena
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