Fessing up to your fabulousness.

Wanna know more about your greatest gifts, to implement them in your business? They’re hidden in the stallouts that you’re fighting.

We’re usually experts on our *limitations and weaknesses* in business. You know the stuff that holds you back, or the invisible barrier you just haven’t broken through yet? One client described hers as a wonky leg she was dragging around. “If only I could just get rid of this part of me! Then I would be successful.” Let’s put down the machetes for a second, and stop trying to hack that off like an evil appendage… because there’s something extremely rewarding hidden in it.

Doesn’t matter what the weakness is – but it’s usually something that you point to and say, “That is why I’m not sitting at the big kids’ table.”

Let’s use an example – anyone disorganized?

It may be true that you have messy desk drawers – you simply haven’t gotten to that part of your business yet, or you can’t get the organization together.  It’s just a behavior, it’s not a statement of your character or an indicator of the potential profit in your business. Not a big hairy deal.

I’ll never tell you how to organize a drawer. There’s usually a damn good reason you haven’t done it yet – a clue to your gifts, a hidden key in that mess. You may thrive in chaos, and cultivate many moving elements in order to be at your strategic best. You won’t know what the gift is until you stop berating yourself for the stallout, and get really curious about what’s underneath the hood.

Make your home a temple of zen or your office a pit of moldy spaghetti pots, I don’t give a damn.  It’s none of my business. My business is the state of your soul in your business – your gifts, your vision, your impact on the world, and your bottom line.

And that means we gotta excavate your gifts.

Yeah, I know – I’ve heard ‘em too. They’re all writing posts and selling you products about “drawer organizing,” and how that’s the next big step for you and your business. And it could be – but it’s not in between you and your next thing. You’re in your business – you know what’s next. Remember the weird appendages? You have them for a reason. Find the gift in the limitation – chances are, it’s a fabulous one.

Need a real example? How about a secret that I’ve kept from clients in every business I’ve ever had:

(Some of my closest clients won’t be surprised…)

I have ADHD, potentially scattered to the max. Talk about a productivity and profit killer, aside from any personal stuff that can come with it. But I actually credit my insight and business success to the ADHD stuff. I’ve learned to get right to the heart of the objective, the task, or the underlying truth for my clients – before my brain goes off on a wild goose chase.  And because I don’t dally, EVER – can’t afford to with the ADHD – I estimate that I’ve made 40% more this year than expected, for my stage in business building.

Because I’ve had to compensate for ADHD from an early age, I’ve had to get really, really good at providing intense value, right away. I may not know what time zone I’m in and forget to buy groceries for 3 weeks, but I know how to zoom in on the biggest opportunities for my clients, and zap their roadblocks like lightnin’ shocks sand into glass. And I’m ok with that trade off. I continue to work on it, but in the meantime, it’s about finding the context that suits me and my people the best, so that I can provide great value to them.

I could see my ADHD as a weakness – a weird appendage to be hacked off, or the disorganized mess in between me and my success in business. I could buy every pill or info product out there on focus, etc.  to compensate for it.  And I just might, at some point. But there’s a gift in this limitation for me, today. And I am open for business, today.  Delivering my message, implementing my vision, and increasing my revenue, today. Sure – part of that’s in spite of my ADHD.  And a significant part of that success is because of the ADHD.

Stop comparing, start designing.

Nobody but nobody has the right to tell you how to organize your drawers, or even tell you that it’s your unorganized drawers that are keeping you from greater satisfaction and profit in your business.

You decide what your disorganized drawers mean, and you’re in charge of finding the gift hidden in them.  You may even have days where you forget you have drawers, and every scrap of paper, old hair tie, and bent fork is in a defiant pile on your floor.  Like your brain literally threw up on the carpet of your office.

THAT’S OK.  We all have stallouts, we all have messy drawers. And just because someone else organizes their drawers and *POOF* makes money on the same day, and then writes blog post/ebook/mastermind course on it, doesn’t mean you have to listen. Or that you can’t be effective or make money until you have organized drawers. Forget the tactics until you’ve made friends with your gifts, and developed strategies to suit them.

(You get that this is a metaphor, yes my darlings?  No hurt emails from the wonderful organizers in the audience, please.)

Take out “disorganized drawers,” and insert “tiny list,” “no presell formula,” or “confused niche.” Don’t you dare apologize for those stallouts – just be your precious self, in your gorgeous business, and be brave enough to look under the hood and notice how gifted you are.

Then put those gifts to work.

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