What Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back from Following-Up on Their Brilliant Ideas
For the past month I’ve been working with a fantastic group of women in a pilot of my new coaching program – The Get It Done Challenge. On our first call I had them share what they wanted to accomplish as well as what typically holds them back from getting things done.
Here are some of the projects they were challenged about moving forward with:
- Creating a new blog-based website
- Developing a coaching program
- Hosting a telesummit
- Develop an info-product
- Building an email list
- Creating a video-based newsletter
What’s been interesting is that even though they’re a diverse group of women with different projects, age groups, types of businesses and personalities – there are common threads when it came to the obstacles they faced. Here are some of the snippets of conversation I captured that speak to their frustrations.
“What holds me back is my perfectionism. It sometimes makes me procrastinate because I just get confused.”
“I just seem to procrastinate when I have so many ideas I have ideas galore What I tend to do is hold back until it’s all right and perfect.”
“The biggest thing that gets in my way is I get so many ideas…For me it’s fully around time management, taking a look at the project, saying, ‘This is what I’m doing now,’ and really staying with it.”
“What gets in the way? Everything. There are only so many hours in a day.“
“I get distracted by shiny things. I’m just overwhelmed with all the other business that’s going on. It’s time management, staying focused, and having a plan.”
“My biggest challenge is reigning in of all the ideas that continuously swirl around in my head and getting clear on prioritizing. Which comes first? Then which comes second?”
“What holds me back is time management, prioritizing, streamlining, and having too many ideas and shiny object distractions.”
“For me, it’s the how-to’s and getting the assistance of somebody else who understands that whole process.”
“It’s getting the stuff done. It’s the time-management part of it and not being an expert … It’s finding that person or people to help support me in doing this. That’s what gets in my way. “
“Right now, I am so bogged down… I’ve just been doing an awful lot of it myself. I can’t do all this nonsensical stuff myself that others can do for me.”
Perfectionism, prioritizing, having too many ideas, distractions, not knowing how or when to delegate – these topics kept coming up in our conversation when it came to what’s stopping us from getting our ideas out of our head and into the world.
The great thing is that the 5 strategies I’m sharing with these women are working! It doesn’t matter which project or which challenge they’re grappling with, they’re all making progress.
FYI – I’ll be sharing these five strategies in my upcoming free teleclass on October 15th, Get It Done 101 – How To STOP Procrastinating and Tackle Your BIG Ideas with Confidence… So that You Can Make More Money and Help More People. Click here to learn more.
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