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The Tree That Wasn’t There Before

By on May 18, 2010 in Living Your Truth

Guest Post by Carla Young

One day we planted the tree that wasn’t there before and what happened next symbolized the magnetic power of living your truth.

From out of nowhere birds appeared. One after the other after the other. From nowhere and everywhere, they flocked to the tree that wasn’t there before to hop from branch to branch, chirping and singing as birds like to do.

The idea that wasn’t there before

Your job as an entrepreneur is to plant the idea that wasn’t there before.

Which idea? Yours! Your truth. Not something you think the market wants. Not something you think you should do. Not something you think other people will approve of. Not what makes sense ‘on paper’.

But something YOU feel is important. Your purpose. Your passion. Your truth.

How stepping into my truth changed everything

The idea of building an online resource community for mom entrepreneurs started as a seed of an idea. The idea was to look at how powerful women stepped into leadership roles, authentically and truthfully. She-EO’s.

Why? Because it interested me…kinda. Because I thought the market wanted it. Because I didn’t want to step into the fray of mom business coaches. And it took my mastermind holding up the mirror to show me my true passion.

Motherhood. Moms. Moms in business. Mom-EO’s.

This is the part of the story where you expect to hear that I started pursuing my idea the very next day. That I dropped everything and made it happen. Well I didn’t. I let it sit. Every time it came back to the surface, I pushed it down, ignored it and kept on doing what I thought I should be doing.

But the idea kept coming back around and coming back around until opportunity knocked and I FINALLY answered.

Building the dream that wasn’t there before

Stepping off the ledge and starting to live my truth, pursue the passion, the dream that wasn’t there before was scary. Really scary. What if I share my true dream and then it doesn’t happen? What if people think it’s stupid? What if I mess it up because I don’t know how to make it happen.

What if…I succeed?

The source of the fear is the reason for the magic! Living your truth is…in a word: magnetic! It has an unbelievable power to draw people in, to energize potential, to engage and inspire your audience…

So what are you waiting for?

Carla Young is the Founder & CEO of MOMeo Community.com and Publisher of MOMeo Magazine.com. She’s dedicated to supporting mom entrepreneurs (or mom entrepreneurs-to-be) build work-at-home lifestyle businesses and succeed on THEIR terms at work, at home and in finding a little playtime for mommy!

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  • meganmatthieson

    “The source of the fear is the reason for the magic!” Thank you Carla, for this post. I love this statement, because it's such a great representation- or description- of the ever present duality of ….everything! And most often the fear is something that you want the most. If you didn't want it it would just bore you and you'd move on. :)

  • http://allisonnazarian.com/ Allison Nazarian

    Love you Carla — so awesome!
    The pushing it away, pretending “it” isn't speaking to you and then finally, finally letting it in and allowing yourself to know what you knew all along — that this is your truth — it is epic!
    xo ~ Alli

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    Thank you Megan! Stepping into your fear is such a big part of living your truth!

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    Thanks Alli! I thought it was important to share that sometimes it takes years to step into what you are meant to do (and that's okay)!

  • http://www.robynbeazley.com Robyn Beazley

    Awesome post Carla! Thanks for sharing – it's inspiring to hear from a fellow Albertan.

  • http://sallyg.me Sally G.

    I like the Fairy Tale feel of this post Carla. And the mystical quality of the invisible element becoming visible and changing everything. It's a beautiful way to make a significant point. Thank you!

  • http://twitter.com/FriskyBoy JohnnyFrisk

    Sometimes we fear our ability to succeed as much as we do our potential to fail, even more. The greatest thing about doing something different is also the scariest: you don't know what's going to happen. That scares the piss out of most people. I'm still getting there myself.

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    Thanks Robyn! Nice to hear from a fellow Albertan!

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    Mmmwwwaaahhh…thank you, Sally!

    It amazes me to see my ideas become visible, living things that grow and change and take on a life of their own.

    What an adventure!

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    If you step out with truth and authenticity, you will unleash the power of the tree that wasn't there before.

    Happy travels!

  • randomshelly

    That is a great post Carla and follows our chat tonight! Your intuition told you what to do, what you needed to do.. what you 'should' do – and you finally listened! YEAH YOU! and good job :)

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    Just rediscovered this quote about magic…

    “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
    — Khalil Gibran

  • http://momeomagazine.com/ Carla Young

    I ignored my intuition for a LONG time before I acted, but it's funny how intuition keeps bringing up the path we need to take again and again until we follow!

  • http://twitter.com/LauraScholz Laura Scholz

    Such a great post, Carla! It's funny how that little spark of an idea can just sit in the back of your head and nag at you until you're spurred to action. And I just love that you're pursuing your passion. I don't think you can have passion without truth.