Ep. 114 - Sometimes You Just Have to Embrace the Suck

Thriving The Future Podcast

Tips on How to Handle Imposter Syndrome...and January.

It's the doldrums of January. Christmas has passed. Deer season is over and I didn't get a deer

Although I love the snow. I can't do anything when it's zero degrees outside and 25 mph wind like it is today. After shoveling 2 foot snow drifts on 60 feet of driveway, it has now drifted over again.

Like many of you, I'm starting to get the seed catalogs and I'm starting to plan my garden, even though I really need to stay in the moment and embrace this season.

We live in a world where we want permanence, but we buy stuff that breaks - and we do it on purpose.

So this episode is about how to Embrace the Suck.

(military slang) To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable.

And even though I've been at this for two years, I still struggle with Imposter Syndrome once in a while. So what is Imposter Syndrome? It's especially affects entrepreneurs. It's that self-doubt. It's that thinking: “you're not good enough”.

It's thinking that “I'm not an expert and I feel like I'm going to get called out on it.”

Way back in episode 11, we did an episode on Imposter Syndrome.

Here are some tips on how you can Embrace the Suck, whether you're an entrepreneur or whether you're not:

• Look back and on your wins and celebrate them.
• Embrace the Suck and learn from your losses. A lot of the times the losses are just bad timing. Or it means that you need to tweak something, you need to adjust, you need to change.
• Ask yourself - "what can I learn from this?"
• If you're an entrepreneur, diversify. We are all stuck in a one-income mindset and that's not how it works. In a side hustle, that's not how it works. In entrepreneurship, you need to have multiple income streams.
• And the best tip is to Rest. And at this time, where it's the downtime, the doldrums of January: Plan. Everybody thinks that the nursery guy or the farmer are sitting around doing nothing at this time of year. But if you talk to anyone, like Akiva Silver from Twisted Tree Farms, they're doing planning and they might use this time to also do marketing and write a book. They're doing something, they're not just sitting around. Sure it's not as busy as summertime, but it has a season, it has a place.
• Free your mindset - Turn Off the BS.

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