Hi Akasha! Excited for you to be diving in to a big passion of yours!!! Sounds magical! 🙂 EnJOY creating from the heart!!! WooHoo!

Akasha:

I love this. It sounds so fun and exciting! Best wishes for lots of inspiration creating this:) {I feel your passion and so I’m sure it will be fun AND inspiring for you, though.}

I can’t wait to hear and see more…

I love reading children’s literature – often more than the adult stuff.  Have you read any of the books from Kate Egan’s Magic Shop Series?  I’ve enjoyed reading those aloud to my oldest son.  I keep looking for more books in the series!!!

I’m with Dr. Wayne – great job setting your boundaries.  In the interest of helping you actually reach the finish line – is there a way you can be very specific about your finished project?  Can you shrink it to something that feels easily manageable within the time frame?  As a motivation enthusiast, I’ve learned that:  1) a project that is too big often leads to fear that prevents forward movement, 2) a person is likely to accomplish more when s/he commits to less, and 3) the hardest part is getting started and the best way to do that is to focus only on the next ridiculously small step.  Once you get the ball rolling, that momentum will often carry you farther than you had imagined.  (That’s how things went with my taxes this year.  The first task was to put the CD into my computer, and once I’d done that it just naturally flowed into installing the program and then pulling out the tax folder and working through the guided steps.  I gave myself a month to complete the task, but by the end of that first day I had finished everything except for tracking down a couple of stray forms.  It felt so gratifying.)

Perhaps you can set what I call a “check-in-the-box” goal.  Basically, this is the minimum level that would count as reaching the goal.  For me, one of my daily “check-in-the-box” goals is showing up to work.  If I show up late, it still counts.  If I don’t get anything done after I get there, it still counts.  As far as I’m concerned, if I can manage to get out of bed every morning, get my 4 boys out the door to school (even if they’re late), and walk in my office door – then I’ve met the minimum goal and all the rest is icing on the cake.  It may sound like I’m selling myself short, but in fact when I set the bar low it takes away all the pressure and anxiety to go above and beyond, and that makes it so much easier to plow on ahead.

So given everything else on your plate, perhaps you’d like to commit to creating 8 final ecourse lessons.  Or 4 crappy first drafts.  Or even just one lesson with a video intro and an outline for the rest.  My guess is that if you can finish that first basic step, the next steps will fall into place so much more easily – and since you’ve removed the pressure of having to perform at a high level then you will feel compelled to use the forward momentum to keep going.

FYI – my goal is to launch my platform – a website/blog.  My check-in-the-box will be launching the site and publishing my very first blog post.  I would love to publish additional blog posts (or even just crappy first drafts) but if I can reach that check-in-the-box goal then I will consider this challenge to be a success.

Good luck!