THE
JOY OF COMPLETION
CARA'S
CORNER
Writing
is a vital marketing strategy. It can enhance your expert status,
attract clients and customers, and convert sales. I've been a
writer all my life and although I have been coaching my Practical
Presence clients in creating compelling web copy, I have seen
the need for help creating those wonderful passive income producing
digital products. Whether you need to create a stronger opt-in
offering, an e-magazine to help build trust and relationship with
your opt-in list, or are ready to write that e-book, teleclass
or home study course, I can help. Through The
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to creation. My vast knowledge of internet marketing enables me
to guide you to profitable leveraging ideas that will triple the
number of products you can offer. And the bonus is that along
the way we develop your sales copy and your method of delivery.
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This
article below was inspired by the completion of three new audios:Maximize
Your Potential Now, Allow
Yourself to Prosper Now and Sweet
Talk Yourself to Success. These are insightful teleclasses
that haven't been available for over a year and now they are back
in an easy-to-download MP3. My audio offering continue to expand.
My
new e-book "Heart Marketing, Finding the Balance Between
Being and Doing" is nearing completion and I will begin recording
it as an audio book this week. It is to be finished for The Product
Factory Wall of Fame in September. I'll get the e-book to you
sooner
This
month's article is "The Joy of Completion. Enjoy.
Warmly,
Warmly,
THE
JOY OF COMPLETION
The
only reason I get to talk about the joy of completion is because
I took over a year to do the final editing on some teleclasses
I had recorded and it is now done and I AM JOYOUS!!!!
Isn't
it amazing how long we can put off something that will give us
as much joy and satisfaction as completion? I can't tell you how
many half started (or is it half finished) e-books I have. And
when I rediscover them I always find I'm a lot further along than
I thought.
I
wonder what made me stop. It was probably that something else
popped to the top of my completion list, or I found something
totally new and exciting to explore. And things pop to the top
because they needed. So perhaps it's simply that their time has
come.
But
back to the joy of completion. When I finished my first CD cover,
and had that jewel case sitting on my desk it was a thrill. When
I complete an e-book and make the sales page and post it in my
shopping cart I am ecstatic.
Why
do we neglect completion? Why do we put it off when it feels so
good?
You
know, it doesn't have to be a very big completion in order to
count. Hey, taking the notes that are all over my desk and putting
them into my Quick List is a win. Listening to a downloaded teleclass
I've been meaning to get to gives me satisfaction and new knowledge.
Taking a moment to organize the files on my hard drive should
be properly celebrated. And making a new mind map of my next steps
demands a pat on the back.
Yes,
I have a "To Do" list. I call it my "Quick List."
It stays open on my computer and every idea I have goes on it.
It has a section for article and e-book ideas, things to do to
strengthen my web site, phrases I like, links to remember and
next steps to take. It holds a calendar with the phone numbers
of the teleclasses I plan to take, my coaching schedule and my
"Do Today" list. So keeping track is not the problem.
But sometimes completing is.
I
think it's time for sticky notes. What if, at the end of each
day, I acknowledged myself for something I had completed and write
it down? Hopefully the number of sticky notes could become quite
decorative. At the end of the week I would read them over and
bask in the joy of completion. I would really take time to acknowledge
myself and feel how good it is to have moved forward through completion.
Then I would clear the decks and start fresh for the upcoming
week.
My
coaching clients are usually entrepreneurs with a lot of ideas.
Part of my job is to get them to focus on one idea, complete it
and then choose a next step. Often I meet with resistance. Not
intentionally, just because they are excited about so many things
and want to do them all. Do you know that feeling?
If
you run around with a lot of half completed aspects of your business
you will never feel like you are making any forward motion. On
your calendar, schedule specific times to work your business.
It may be to write articles or research potential radio interviews
or it may be to invoice work you have completed. If you don't
set aside time to work your business every week you will stay
at exactly the place you are now. And if you don't complete a
few steps each week you are simply dog paddling to stay afloat.
Completion
is tied into commitment. And commitment works wonders. Commitment
lines up all manner of magical gifts from the universe in the
form of tools we need, people we need to speak to, and circumstances
that offer new opportunities.
Sometimes
I don't complete because what's left to do is not very interesting.
It's much more fun to create something new than edit something
you've already done, or write the thank you page for your web
site, or set up a new product in your shopping cart. But it is
tying up those final ends that is the icing on the cake. Don't
let a project go uncompleted because of three things on your "To
Do" list that will take you 20 minutes to complete. You are
robbing yourself of the great pleasure of completion.
I
know that part of my non-completion is because of bumping other
things to the top of the list. And maybe they do need to be bumped
up. Maybe they are more of a priority. Perhaps I can focus on
celebrating what I do complete rather than what remains to be
done.
What
we focus on we attract more of. If I focus on completion, and
if I celebrate each success, I know that I will find myself completing
more and more…..and more.
©
Cara Lumen 2007
www.caralumen.com
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