{"id":239,"date":"2008-10-25T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-10-28T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:30:15","slug":"funding-comes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/funding-comes-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Comes Second"},"content":{"rendered":"

It happens every time I announce a new special event. Almost immediately, I begin getting messages that say, \u201cSomeday I\u2019d love to attend your Storytelling<\/a><\/strong> seminar.\u201d Or\u00a0\u201cWhen will you be doing your Storytelling<\/strong> event in Alaska?\u201d These questions suggest that many people haven’t learned one of the basics of successful self-bossing.<\/p>\n

Several years ago when Valerie Young announced our upcoming Making Dreams Happen<\/a><\/strong> event, she was deluged with e-mails from people saying they\u2019d like to attend but couldn\u2019t afford the enrollment fee. She called me to see if I had any\u00a0 ideas about how to handle this onslaught. I pointed out that since this event was about bringing dreams into reality, getting there was the first exercise. The ever-creative Valerie issued a challenge to her readers asking them to share what they were doing to fund the conference. We got wonderful stories about the creative ways that participants found to be involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A year earlier, two friends and I decided we wanted to take a little vacation. My cash flow was good so I had the funds; they\u2019d both spent the previous months working on writing projects that had yet to pay off so their cash flow was squeaky. Once we set the goal for the trip, however, they both swung into action. They\u00a0 had each built a nice little portfolio of cash flow options that included things like selling on eBay, doing market research, spending a Sunday as a flea marketing vendor. In less than two weeks, they both had the money\u00a0 they\u00a0 needed for the trip.<\/p>\n

Last year, another entrepreneurial friend was experiencing a cash flow slowdown and decided to get creative. She wanted something that wouldn\u2019t distract too much from other projects she was working on, so she put an ad on her local Craigslist offering her services as a pet sitter in her home. Not long after, I\u00a0 was talking to her and she proudly announced, \u201cI just passed the $1000 mark with petsitting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

So the order of making things happen is this: goal first, funding second. What successful goalsetters know is that the process goes something like this: focus on a goal, brainstorm obvious and crazy ways to make it happen, start taking action. Keep going until the goal is met. Set another goal and repeat.<\/p>\n

You can do anything you want to do. I mean it. Blunder ahead. ~ Robert Henri<\/em><\/p>\n

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I heard a terrific story on public radio\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/a><\/em> today about a school in the Chicago area called Ag High which teaches agricultural and entrepreneurial subjects along with academics. The school\u2019s director had some insightful things to say about the value of this broad curriculum. I urge you to check it out for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It happens every time I announce a new special event. Almost immediately, I begin getting messages that say, \u201cSomeday I\u2019d love to attend your Storytelling seminar.\u201d Or\u00a0\u201cWhen will you be doing your Storytelling event in Alaska?\u201d These questions suggest that many people haven’t learned one of the basics of successful self-bossing. Several years ago when…<\/p>\n

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