To make it, we need to have the right mindset and attitude; we need to know what we will do to make the money, to generate the income to support us.  The inspiration for this piece came to me while I was watching a clip from my business the other day.  The owner/founder of the company has a multi-directional focus that has always called to me but what sticks out the most is that her approach to each of these areas works and unrelated things seem to connect easily—it works and makes sense.  On the surface it would seem there are too many pieces to put together and that they don’t make a clear image.  The reality is all of these pieces are connected.  There is a web that ties them together in a way that makes perfect sense.  I need to dive into this so bear with me.  For example, there is an internet brokerage with exclusive products in everything from cleaning and personal care, to makeup, to hair/skin/beauty, vitamins, supplements, child care, laundry, tea, pet care, car care, coffee, weight loss, energy, protein—frankly covering that scope of product is overwhelming in itself and that isn’t even all of it.  Further there is the shopping annuity with partnerships with thousands of companies.  Then there is the coaching and mindset training.  On top of that she’s an author. All of these pieces fit together to allow people the option to use/share any one of these areas or all of them.  So we are talking entrepreneurship, partnership, authorship, and literally changing health/wellness and how business is run.

I felt like the code was cracked watching this clip—I understood how people with multiple, seemingly unrelated goals, manage to put them all together in a cohesive package.  I have all of these different areas of focus and different passion projects that I want to bring to life and I struggle to put all of it together because it always feels like I should be doing something else when I’m working on one area or I haven’t quite found the common thread in all of it.  I spent a lot of time with all of these ideas flowing through me with no real focus and no real belief that anything could be done about it—I believed I could only pick one thing.  I went to the other end of the spectrum as well—I tried to do all things at once and all that did was leave me with a bunch of started but unfinished projects.  But what clicked while watching this clip was that it isn’t so much finding a way to do all the things, it’s finding the common theme or common message between them and that branches out into different fields.  For example, one area that I’m passionate about is health and wellness.  That can be applied to medical care, pharmaceuticals, holistic practice, diet/nutrition, exercise/fitness.  And each of those can further branch out—specialized practice, a particular focus for drug treatment, massage therapy/chiropractic/acupuncture/oils/herbs, food quality/managing macros/growing our own food/eating to cure and prevent illness, and strength training/cardio/joint health/respiratory health etc. etc.  And maybe we spend time in each of those areas.  Sometimes it’s closer to a web than a puzzle.       

Marie Forleo always said she was a multi-passionate entrepreneur and that phrasing always connected with me– but I struggled to put it into action.  I realized after watching that clip that I understand the web idea more than compartmentalizing my life.  Operating under the idea of only doing one thing was way too limiting, doing too much wasn’t getting anything done, and then getting overwhelmed and settling for something so far outside the realm of what I wanted to do took me on an entirely different track.  I’ve shared many pieces about living multiple lives at once.  We can’t do it all.  We are human and we can eventually do all we are meant to do but that means getting really specific and finding that common theme, the common thread through our entire lives.  Sometimes we are that common thread and we pivot multiple times before we figure out what we are meant to do.  Power comes from operating in truth and knowing who we are and, above all, follow through and taking action on it.  When we find aligned people who support our efforts and ideas and they put their energy and effort toward the same thing or toward complementary goals, we truly become unstoppable.  There is nothing beyond reach, truly.  The key is understanding what we are doing and following the threads until we can see the bigger picture.  Sometimes that takes some digging to see how things are linked.  And as long as we have the right mindset and are clear on our message/theme/purpose, it will all come together.