I’ve been trying to figure out what to do here on The Complete Flake ever since — oh, I don’t know, forever? But really, since I decided to move the #customerlove challenge to its own site. Because I gotta say, I fell in love with Customer Love — not just the concept but the people, the excitement, the idea that businesses (and lives) can be changed by such a small thing.
It’s magic, I tell ya.
Soon after the end of the November challenge, I got an email that made me cry:
“I wasn’t sure how the mortgage was going to get paid this month, and now it’s COVERED, so this has been a HUGE boon.”
This Customer Love challenger grabbed the opportunity, jumped in wholeheartedly and worked her ass off to achieve a big success. Customer Love didn’t do that for her — she can claim all the credit — but it gave her a place and a format within which to spread the word and build excitement about her product.
I have never felt so fucking USEFUL in my life.
This is what I want to do from now on, to help even more struggling entrepreneurs kick-start their businesses so that they can make those mortgage payments and take care of their families.
I am working with Jonathan Wondrusch (@bybloggers) to create an amazing course — that I have to keep my mouth shut about, dammit. I WANT to shout it from the rooftops. Just trust me, it’s gonna be good. And I’m pretty sure it’s gonna help cover some more mortgage payments. But more about that in a month.
Right now, I’m wondering how to integrate Customer Love and The Complete Flake in my life. I don’t want to ignore my dear flakes, but I’m just not passionate about procrastination any more, you know? It’s a problem I will always struggle with, but I don’t find it fascinating AT ALL. I just don’t want to write about it any more.
What I’ve learned from Customer Love is that flakiness can be overcome with motivation.
If you want something badly enough, you will find a way to get it done.
It might not be neat and organized, it might be at the last second or even late, but it will get done.
If you have to force yourself to do it, maybe you need to look at your reason for doing it. Do you really WANT to do it, or do you feel like you HAVE to? If you feel boxed in and without a choice in the matter, I’d say take a look at that and see if there’s any way you can give yourself a choice.
That’s it, the sum total of my advice about flakiness, resistance, procrastination — whatever you want to call it.
Am I going to abandon The Complete Flake?
No, but I’m not going to focus on flakiness any more. I think it will just be my personal blog and I’ll talk about whatever without feeling the need to teach you anything, which seems to bring up all sorts of resistance in me, lol.
I’m not going to waste any more energy trying to make myself do what I don’t really want to do.
So let’s relax. Let’s just be ourselves here. What do you think?
