Massive action on my writing pitches

Hi! I’m loving the theme of this month’s coaching and the call for messy, massive action…
My focus for this is 2 prong: pitching more income-generating work in my freelancing, specifically my writing (after pausing this recently to recover from burnout, refresh my systems, and start a new arm of my business in events). I have a lot of fears around it, but I know that I’m as ready as I’ll ever be… And I have a strong ‘why’ for defrosting this part of my business, after being on a pause:
– My gut instinct tells me I don’t want to give up on it. Important to note, because I’ve felt like I’d been putting it off for so long that I asked myself: do you actually want to do this? And it’s a yes! Was nice to give myself permission not to, too… and for it feel like an intentional choice to re-commit to.
– It will help to generate rapid income, which I’m in need of!
– Writing for other publications will help to build my online presence, drive readers to my newsletter, and help people find out about my events.
– This will also get me a step closer to re-submitting my book proposal – which has been on ice, while building my social media presence up, based on an agent’s feedback, as well as while pivoting to income-generating work.
– It is the perfect time, because pride month is coming, and I want to pitch more about LGBTQ+ experiences.
– I’m excited to try it out again with a year of freelancing experience, new systems, structures and strategies under my belt, as well as more confidence in my writing…

When I went freelance last year it felt like i was launching myself off a cliff into the unknown (and I did actually go paragliding at the time!) but this time, it feels like I’m making an intentional, controlled leap – where I am now the one driving the parachute.

Old limiting beliefs that I’ve been weeding out have been things like: i’m behind or I’m too late…. As well as fears around rejection and being exposed.

But I know I’m as ready as I will ever be now! I even booked 2 weeks off from other projects to focus on this and have gone away to remote work in my favourite place… So it’s literally ALL lined up to make it as much of a success as possible.

Here’s the thing: I haven’t made the leap yet! I have been doing other work tasks – for example events related – which do need to happen. But I wonder if I’m hiding behind them because they feel less scary and if it’s a kind of procrastination that is less obvious?

Please can you support in how to take the leap with writing – even though I haven’t ‘finished’ the events stuff. I’d like to do it alongside in small bursts, making the writing pitches the ‘main meal’ of the next 2 weeks…

Thanks so much

Answer:

It’s totally ok to use a metaphor as long as it serves you AND drop it when it doesn’t.  If you didn’t have to leap at all…what could you do? It sounds like you know how you want to approach this. Just do that. What perfect timing for you.