Category: Out of the Jar Project

Usually when I speak about trust, I speak in business terms. I talk about the value of building trust with your stakeholders and customers before asking for anything from them.

Today though I want to focus on trusting yourself and your work.

Editing my book has been a rollercoaster of a process.

Some days I’m really happy with my progress and the words before me, on the other days I have massive crises of faith.

I ask/say to myself:

‘Who wrote this rot?’

‘Well this clearly doesn’t work.’

‘How am I going to fix this?’

‘No one will ever want to read this.’

Today won’t be one of those days…I am determined to maintain the faith.

Today happens to be the day I set aside each week to devote to my editing and I’ve been looking forward to it, while dreading it at the same time.

I have a very difficult chapter to fix…no let’s say revise. It’s the first chapter and it’s not quite right, but it will be.

I have to trust myself and my abilities, I have to trust the process.

What exactly does that mean though? Trust the process?

Whether I’m editing my book or going through a business or personal journey (I nice way of saying dealing with crap and doubt), I like to think trusting the process is believing that it will all work out somehow.

Believing, working hard, doing your best, believing more and trusting that the universe will provide when you’re ready.

Trusting the process to me, is to follow your intuition and your heart and fully believe you’ve got this, that it will happen…all without facts, knowledge or evidence to confirm your belief.

Believing and trusting without proof and without a fixed timeline…it’s really bloody hard to do that sometimes…but today at least I will let go and trust the process.

‘Trust’ is today’s word out of the jar. Read more about my Out of the Jar project here.

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I have a wonderful, quirky client, who after a tough year on a personal and work front  is really owning her uniqueness – she has embraced what makes her different and made it central to a new business and brand.

A well-known public speaker and marketing guru I admire wrote a book recently owning his personal struggles with mental illness and abuse.

At his book launch he said something like: ‘people say to me that it must be hard getting up and being so open and honest about this, but it’s a lot easier than trying to be something you’re not’.

Own…it.

I overhead a boy I liked in Year 7 say to my friends that I was a ‘weirdo’.

He was probably right. It’s only taken 25+ years but I’m okay with being weird. I’m prepared to own it.

And while I like to think I’m perfect, I know that I’m not. There are things I wish I was better at, business paths that probably make more sense than the ones I’ve chosen, but at last I’m owning it. I’m following what feels right.

And today at least, I’m okay with me, my choices and imperfectionism.

Owning it means we can be the most awesome versions of ourselves…yes we can be authentic, weird and fabulous! You just need to own it.

‘Own it’ is today’s word out of the jar. Read more about my Out of the Jar project here.

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In this busy world we often forget to just stop for a moment. Stop and watch the world go around us.

My son watches everything. He doesn’t miss a thing.

Children are good at watching.

There are also people like my father. He can stop and look at something like a landscape or river for hours on end, in complete silence. He says this for him is the perfect experience.

Watching takes time.

But it’s a gift we shouldn’t take for granted. It’s the gift of curiosity, learning, contentment and peace.

Today I will take time out of my busy day to just watch something, with no expectations other than to be ready for what the world has to show me.

‘Watch’ is today’s word out of the jar. Read more about my Out of the Jar project here.