I was talking with a friend last week who was feeling a sense of failure because someone accused her of not implementing (learning about a process and failing to put it into practice in her business), and then she started accusing herself. It got me thinking about how often we look outside ourselves for the answers—what others say, do, or recommend—and often it’s because we are feeling “not enough” (not smart enough, not creative enough, not intuitive enough, etc) on our own.

They tell you, and you believe, that it (whatever they are advising you to do) worked for them, so it will work for you.  Or maybe it doesn’t work for them but they are teaching it because they heard it should work. So you try to implement something that is not authentically you, and when it doesn’t work the way they promised, or when you can’t even bring yourself to finish it, you blame yourself.

Consider that these may actually be the reasons it didn’t work:

• The person recommending it is not you. Everyone has a different personality, background, patterns and vibrations, and all those things and more figure in to the mix.
• Their business is not your business. Even if it seems similar, each business is unique.
• You fumble forward without identifying your WHY behind this new task.

On my Awakening in Austin Fabulous Friday show last week I shared a simple process to overcome failure to implement, including a detailed example.  Go to the Awakening in Austin show page (www.AwakeninginAustin.com) and, in the On Demand section, click on “Fabulous Friday: How to Overcome Failure to Implement.”