When they come they feel like a gift. They feel like the grandest version of yourself. You wonder how it is that you could have had this idea. It’s too beautiful and extraordinary to have landed in your lap.

And yet it did. It is yours and it has the power to change the world.

Each time I received these inspirations I would capture it through journaling. Mold it in planning. For weeks, sometimes months we would be inseparable. It would be all I could think about.

And then, when I shared it with others...

Nothing.

It’s as if they couldn’t see this gift. They couldn’t see it’s possibility. Some even went as far as saying it wouldn’t work or that it was a bad idea.

What?! How can that be true?

Is that true?

I didn’t know how to give it wings.

Squeezed by responsibility to provide for my family, I couldn’t see how to keep nurturing this gift that wasn’t taking root.

Each time I mourned the loss of the idea. I had poured my heart into. It had captured my imagination and felt impossibly important.

More than that I felt like I failed. It died because of me. This thing that could have changed so many lives. This thing that felt like an extension of my greatest Self.

There is a season where you will become numb and jaded. You’ll doubt yourself and others. You’ll wonder if you have what it takes to ever create change at the level of these inspired ideas.

You have see a Promised Land and have been denied entry over and over.

It’s easy in this space to feel resigned to the desert, wandering in less-than-inspired businesses and business plans.

But it’s here, in this dark and resigned place that you will find your spark once more.

It’s here, in these shadows that you develop gumption and resolve.

And it’s here that you will receive your next seed of change.

And just like before you will feel again, the excitement and impossible importance of the divine idea.

But different than before, you will have grown the wiser. And you will stand in the face of your fears and naysayers and say...

THIS CAN’T BE WRONG!

And from that moment on, you realize that this is your Life’s Work and no one will sway you from the impact you’re here to make.

It doesn’t matter how long it takes because this can’t be wrong.

As you see the difference it makes for others, you will be reminded that...

This can’t be wrong.

With your heart full of purpose, and lives that resonate with your work, you live out the rest of your life in the quiet confidence of knowing who you are and what you’re here to do.

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