If You’re Feeling Stuck, Try Going Uphill Instead of Down (Karri as Small Business Coach)

When clients are calling, the kids are climbing the walls, and the coffee’s gone cold, making a dent in your long term goals can feel like an impossibility. Life becomes a big old mountain of minutiae. All motivational moments aside here, but sometimes you just have to get sick and tired of being sick and tired before you are able to carve out the time and resources to work on said goals.

Having our second child really kicked me in the pants. Because I realized that I am nowhere NEAR the organized, everything-in-its-place business woman I once thought I was. (Okay, I assumed.) But my latest epiphany has really changed the way I look at myself and my career as an entrepreneur. That is, perfectionism is the biggest, lamest excuse for not getting the things done that you want to get done.

And that’s why I’m happy to say that I finally put up my new website and blog . I stopped dragging my feet about what to say and how to say it. I stopped losing sleep over finding the perfect shade of lime green for the "!" in snap! virtual associates inc. I also heeded my good friend Tawnya Sutherland ’s advice after I sent her yet another email asking if she liked a particular color scheme I was considering:

"Now you’re just making excuses, Karri" she said. "A website is never done. I want to see that thing up and running by Monday."

Harrumph! I couldn’t argue with her.

Well, I didn’t get the site up by Monday (don’t even ask me why). But I did get it up much, much sooner than I had anticipated. Suddenly I just FOUND THE TIME to get it done.

Perhaps there’s a lesson here somewhere. Much like a website, entrepreneurship is never "finished" either. The whole "it’s the journey, not the destination" adage. And if the journey itself daunts you at times, that is precisely when you must create your own momentum . You have to get in front of that big boulder and start pushing, even if it’s at the bottom of a big hill and your destination is somewhere at the top. Eventually, the rock starts to move and you move with it, faster and faster, until you wonder why you waited so long to just start pushing on it in the first place. Oh the metaphors … but very relevant ones as we stand on the precipice of a recession, no?