Entrepeneur- The seed
If you had asked me, this time last year, if I had heard of a man called
Brendon Burchard I would have said "Who?" But last year September my friend
Patricia had some tickets to Success Seminar 2013 at the Excel Centre in London
and she invited me along. At the time it was just a free ticket to an event
that I took advantage of. Who knew the impact it would have.
Now I didn't know what I was letting myself in for but I was still open.
It has been a year since my redundancy and through that lens you look at
things a little differently. Month by month my confidence and purpose seemed to
ebb away. This invitation came just after I had failed to get a note
taking job and I had hit a low. Not rock bottom but a confidence low. I thought "how the hell! You can’t even get a note taking job yet you want to go
hear about success?" It was while I was reeling from that incident and
subsequent depressed feeling that the invitation came. I remember saying
to myself "you never know what can happen".
I remember there were many speakers but the two who impacted most were
Les Brown and Brendon Burchard. When I stepped into the Excel centre I
was sceptical. You know the atmosphere was like those American sales pitch
adverts you see on late night TV. Don't act like you don’t know! I mean that
pitch that is suggestive leading you to reach for the phone and make that
impulsive purchase! However something about both men connected with me but at
the time Brendon resonated something deeper. He spoke about online marketing
and branding. Now that was strange to me and not for the reasons you might
think. I was used to promoting and using other people's brands but not my
own.
During the last fifteen years or so people have said "you need to
promote what you do", " if you don’t promote yourself no one
will" and "why haven’t you told more people about what you do?"
My ‘brand’ had often been lost amongst the branding of others. Or I had
just been 'happy' to accept being part of someone else's brand. But things change.
I knew that I was good at promoting others but not myself. I knew
if I wanted to change. The difficulty was how to change. I needed help. Brendon
offered that help. He spoke about things I knew little of but in my heart
I had a dream so I got up and decided to move into where I wanted to be.
Actually I jumped up to reach the table, they had indicated, so that I
could take up the offer. I joined his Expert Academy. I wanted the business
mentoring opportunity, tickets to other events, CD's , access to web seminars,
membership forum and lots mores. I was going to be part of the Expert Academy,
part of a club and I even got the chance to meet the man. ;-)
Beverley Wong & Brendon Burchard 2013
Part of the package was the opportunity to attend another event in
London January 2014. I went alone. I didn't know just how brave that
was. What got into me? Either it was 1) the
fact that I had originally spent money on products that I hadn't fully
taken advantage of or 2) I had got to the point where I was fed up of waiting
to do things with other people. I had got into a little habit of putting off
what I wanted to do. I needed to stop that. It's scary enough doing something
new but doing it on your own. Whew!
When I got to Earls Court I realised just how big a step I had taken.
At first I thought I had ended up in a 'cult room' with overly zealous
believers! Then he did an exercise and asked people to stand up if they had
heard of him only in the last 6 months. A small number rose up me included.
Then he asked those who had heard of him before to stand up and the room
exploded! Then he took a straw poll of where people had travelled from to come
and see him. The UK was underrepresented. There were people from all over the
world who had travelled in to the UK to see this man! I sat down and
listened. I got up and participated. I got up and talked. I got up and did the
exercises. I rinsed out everything I could get. I remember him saying that that
today some things we would listen to and take action whilst others we would
hear and do nothing but that the choice was ours.
I left with loads of contact numbers, business cards and email
addresses with the intention to get things going. To date I have
kept in touch with one person more consistently than all the others. One woman
who I thought was 'strange' shared with me a vision /picture which she said she
felt drawn to give me. It was that of a Lotus. At the time I politely said
thank you and stepped aside and made a mental note that I wouldn't keep in
touch with her! When I got home her words were still ringing in my ears. So I
got on Google to research what this flower was about and found myself stunned.
In this small encounter she had rocked my world. I now apologise to her for
thinking she was a little ‘strange’. Strange is what is needed
sometimes. Check out the following for a meaning of the Lotus
II was in a murky muddy place (if only she knew). Her image/vision had
spoken directly to my situation. I felt hope that no matter how dark things
felt it would become beautiful.
Since that event not a day has passed where I have not thought about what
I have wanted to do. I have talked about it. Linked up with a few people that
have either listened, given advice, given their time or their talents to help
me in my development. I have thought about how I am going to do it
and what I needed to do. My thoughts have changed along the way. Ideas were
researched and researched. Then I changed to a new concept of the same idea.
That then changed and then I stopped. I got caught in the world of work and
money. This was needed at the time and I am thankful for that period.
Change has taken place in my personal world: some happy some sad. I have
been busy volunteering for a number of years and then suddenly found myself as
Chair of Governors for a school and found myself leading at a pivotal time in
the school’s history. I found temporary part time work supporting an
organisation in its quest to open several new schools by September 2014 and I
interacted daily with parents seeking better educational opportunities for
their children. However as much as I was committed to completing these works I
always felt that yet again I was putting my dreams on hold (I know you know
what I am talking about). The truth is during these times quite a
few things were taking place. These experiences confirmed for me that it is
time to embrace my potential wherever it leads. I have spent time clearing or
de-cluttering my life which is preparing me for the future. Les Brown said
“feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death……”. I may not
know what the total outcome will be but I am taking steps in faith so that the
doubts will starve to death. Witness my step in faith. The dream that has
been in my heart is materialising.
beating heart bride images from galleryhip.com
It is now October 2014 and a part of my dream is alive! My website is
now a reality http://www.beverleywong.com/
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