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Alright it’s time for me to face the truth and make some tough confessions here. (I’m not doing this to sell anything right now..I just want to share what has been going on behind the scenes in my life because I think its something a lot of us go through and I believe my story may inspire some people down the road or atleast give them some courage).

I’m sure you have noticed how infrequent my blog posts have been and my failed attempts to get back to blog posting and business duties over the last year and half.

And of course the lack of any new products and the lack of emails from me.

So what exactly is the reason? Am I shutting down this website? I thought about it to be honest and I did accidentally did let my other domain expire and I lost a lot of money because of that…Oops! But you can probably tell from that this wasn’t about money at all. It was something deeper..

In simple words here’s what happened to me. I lost my drive. Yes I know I talk about productivity and chasing your goals and I honestly tried convincing myself to get back…but none of those really helped me. It wasn’t that I didn’t have goals…in fact, I did. I thought about my business almost every day but I just never showed up!

Here’s why:

You see, I had lost my intrinsic motivation. I did sit down and create a couple products. You just never heard of them. I sat down and revised my strategic and marketing plans, changed things here and there but something just didn’t feel right.

And it took me a long while to realize what was going on. I thought it was a “phase” so I waited patiently for my intrinsic motivation to come back because I knew it wasn’t a lack of time, goals, plans, action lists or some “push”. It was a matter of losing that inner motivation that makes you jump out of bed in the morning, excited and ready to do something wonderful.

So what exactly was wrong with me? Here’s the scoop

I was going through something of a conflict between my original vision for my business and what I thought I needed to do to reach my business goals. You see, I began reading all about business growth and such and got really uncomfortable about some of the things I was learning like focusing more on aggressive selling and money being the most important thing in business.

You see, I was learning things that contradicted with my vision and being told that that was the only way to grow my vision.

Phew, that’s a tough one to handle. So I had two choices there, I could grow my business and lose my vision or stay where I was.

Can you guess which one I chose? Yes, I decided to stay and not grow my business (which is why the products I created never saw the light of the day because I was scared of losing something more fundamental…my values if I had to sell them aggressively)

Did my turmoil end there?

Unfortunately it didn’t. There was another side of me who wanted to see her dreams grow and her business grow. Trust me, I did everything in power to silence this one!

So why exactly did I decide to come back?

You see, I had almost given up on my dream to protect my values but I was unhappy because I wasn’t working on my vision. And so I kept tossing and turning and trying to get back…

It took me a good year and a half to realize that I could still work on my vision and keep my values.

How?

Well, I have decided to take the road least taken so to speak. You see, so many businesses fall into this trap of maximizing growth and so on that they completely forget about their vision and their customers.

I have decided that I’m going to take a different approach and first focus on my customers and my business. Yes, my business will probably grow at a slower rate than if I were to use an aggressive “Screw everything but the money” strategy but I will be happy!

So here’s the moral of the story:

1. If you ever have to choose between short term success and your vision and values. Choose your vision and your values. Your vision and your values fuel your desire to achieve your goals and affect your happiness.

2. Sometimes its better to step back, think and do the right thing than doing something (that you don’t believe in) just for the sake of doing something. I know I’d have a really rough time forgiving myself if I had ever gone down the road of just focusing on the money.

So folks, there you go..that’s my year and a half in a page and a half

I’m very excited to be back and I look forward to a wonderful journey ahead.

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