Comments on: Why I’m Letting Go of Things That Make Money

By: Donna Thomson

Donna Thomson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:59:34 +0000

I've really just discovered your site today. I mean I've heard your name mentioned in the last couple of months but today I'm really connected with what you've got going on here and I think it's awesome. It's a rainy day here in Brisbane, Australia and I have the feeling I'm going to be living on your site today. It's awesome.

I've just created a community called Women's Wisdom Web and even though I left a business partnership in August last year and have been trying to work out exactly what I want to do and how to do it as a solo entrepreneur, something in me led me back to creating a community for free. So I'm still making $0 from my 'work' but there's something within me telling me that this is worth the wait. What I'm learning about myself and life in the meantime is invaluable.

Anyway, I'm adding you as the second person on my "I see you" page in the community where I've decided to acknowledge women who are living their truth. Nothing teaches better than real life examples and I believe you are one of them.

Great stuff!

By: Donna Thomson

Donna Thomson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:59:34 +0000

By: tehjess

tehjess — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:22:03 +0000

Oh. My. God. It continues to amaze me how I seem to happen across the message I need to hear it RIGHT WHEN I need to hear it – not before, not after, right at the exact moment! It's always a holy sh*t, jaw dropping moment for me.

So your video post was totally that for me today. I've been going through some changes this month (I'm signed up for Sarah's 30 Days to Change Your Game blog series, which has triggered some huge shifts for me) and have been super challenged with learning to let me be me, let go of the things that aren't me, and move forward in the direction that is right for me. HUGE stuff, as I have a hard time letting go of control and not knowing what is going to happen next!

This was super timely for me, as I've had a number of small business things going on in different niches (web design that I've done on a small scale for a number of years, a romantic website with games for couples, and various other niches that I've started on) and I had narrowed it down to just the romantic website, deciding that I needed to stop what I was doing with everything else, but feeling like I *needed* to hang on to at least ONE thing for me to do.

Your post was the call to truly let go of it all! None of it is really what I'm passionate about, and the main reason I was trying to push and do it all was just to make me some money so I can quit the job I don't really like. *sigh* Now I am realizing that even if I did make money at those things, it's still not really what I want to do, and I STILL will be “doing a job that I don't really like”.

So thank you for that push that I needed to send me over the top! Now I know that I need to focus on finding me and my north star (just started reading Martha Beck's “Finding Your Own North Star”) and the rest will literally fall into place from there – without me having to push it!

By: Success In The Suburbs

Success In The Suburbs — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:14:33 +0000

Hi! I just watched your "letting go" video. I love your candor. Although I believe your message was probably intended for business strategies, it hit home for me on a personal "hobby" level. I am a country girl who grew-up sewing her own clothes and curtains and crafts. Over the (many) years I have collected a huge plastic bin of lovely little pieces of fabric that would be perfect for fill-in-the-blank-here. A few months ago I lovingly folded nearly all of those pieces into neat piles, put them in plastic bags and drove them to the Goodwill store. I actually sleep better at night without those little pieces of fabric calling my name from the crawl space two floors below me, "Denise, we're down here. We'd be perfect for an American Girl Doll bed!"

I couldn't agree more with your wisdom. I could apply that to soo many additional areas of my life.

Thanks for naming it!

www.successinthesuburbs.blogspot.com

By: JackieDotson

JackieDotson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:34:12 +0000

I feel as if you and I are on the exact same path right now. I have a psychotherapy practice and I HATE it. If I never did therapy face-to-face again, that would be just fine with me. I've just exhausted my interest in it.

I do some contract work on the side that takes way less out of me mentally and leaves me with buckets of free time to do nothing (and dream of what's next for me). Right now I am doing very, very little and that's okay. I'm finally okay with that.

By: JackieDotson

JackieDotson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:32:22 +0000

I feel like I am sooooo on the same path right now. I have a psychotherapy practice and I HATE it and I don't want to do it anymore. I do contract work on the side which takes a lot less out of me and leaves me a crapload of free time to just do nothing—which is basically all I am doing right now.

But I haven't taken the huge leap of completely throttling the practice yet…..

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:42:28 +0000

FAB video E! However I think you dramatically underestimated how fast fairies paint

By: jodymaley

jodymaley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:26:59 +0000

Howdy Elizabeth!

Great post! just reading your site here and catching up with you! I thought I saw something on FB that you were in the middle of a new launch???

Would love to have you mail me what you are up to!

Jody in Beautiful BC

By: Nathalie Lussier

Nathalie Lussier — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:21:43 +0000

Okay Elizabeth, when are you going to stop mind reading here?! I know this is totally about your stuff and your business, but I can totally relate.

As you may remember I had the billionairewoman.com web site, and when I went all out on my raw foods witch business I decided to put it on hiatus. I haven't touched it in at least 6 months! And like you said, it keeps mentally “pinging me”. Like hm, should I start writing again there? Etc. When clearly these are not the people who would be a good match, and yes some of that writing was good… but it's not where I'm going or who I am today.

Brilliant!

And just the nudge I needed to make my decision about billionairewoman.com.

By: cuteangel79

cuteangel79 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:37:39 +0000

great video and i wish you success with your business, I have my own petsitting business