You're Allowed to Adjust

Sometimes it’s hard to show up.

It’s just the truth. Life does its thing: a car repair, a relational difficulty, capacity suddenly and unexpectedly filled with good things you didn’t plan to leave margin for. I find this most often happens when I have a big idea for something to do, create, or implement in my work, and then, as life happens, I have no idea how to keep that idea going.

The thing I have said to many a leader, and that I have to remind myself all the time is this:

Most people have NO idea what you have planned, so if you don’t fulfill your ideal timeline, launch date, or plan of the moment, truly no one is worried about that but you.

The truth is that while those you serve will be blessed by your plans and ideas, the person who cares most about them is you. That’s why you were graced with each new idea: to carry them, and to put them into action.

But those who will receive your work are not privy to your plans, your dreams of it unfolding or your timeline. SO CHANGE IT AT WILL.

And I’ll tell you the timeline I’ve been shifting: The Template Library. It’s almost done. Well, let’s call it a good start. I want to frame it just a little better for you. A library of Google templates for your work and your life and you know what? I’d love to have launched it last YEAR! I’d love to have launched it with 60+ templates. Instead, I’m launching it a year later than I’d hoped and starting it small. But you only know that because I’m telling you.

Am I missing an opportunity to grow my services? Or am I adjusting my business to fit my life rather than stretching my life to fit a business goal? I’d rather delay an opportunity to grow if it means I keep my sanity and honoring what me or my family needs in any given season.

Once your audience has your plans in hand, they will be blessed, served, and uplifted. But until then, they aren’t waiting on you. They aren’t disappointed when you push it back a month (they don’t have a clue!). They aren’t upset when you change the theme, the topic, or the schedule of delivery.

There’s already enough pressure in simply being human and living real life. You don’t need to add imagined expectations to the list. Give yourself permission to adapt, to move things, to respond to life as it unfolds. Your work can flex because you are human. And when your work arrives, it will arrive with the right timing for both you and those you serve.