I was talking to my business coach last week and she was telling me to go to a particular site and download some software to use to get my 1099’s in. But it was getting late, my husband who is the more technical one wasn’t home, and we were running out of time.  So I told her I was hesitant to buy this software she was recommending because I’m not good at it and didn’t think I’d have enough time to learn it and use it in the next few hours.

Well I got quite a response to that comment! She basically told me that if I took that attitude I was setting myself up for failure and being a sad sack!  (Those were not her exact words, but it was something to that effect-at that point I couldn’t really hear what she was saying as I had zoned out.)

When she was through giving me “the talk” (and I love her, don’t get me wrong) I told her that it wasn’t a matter of negative thinking; it was just the truth. I know what my strengths and weaknesses are and this is NOT one of my strengths!  I know not to go there on my own-especially when under the gun to get something done!

Then I told her I had just tried to get on a similar site and couldn’t do it and had to wait for my husband to get home. It kept asking for my User ID name and I was looking everywhere for it, but couldn’t find one. When my husband got home, he took a look and showed me that it was asking me to create one, duh!

Even so,  I refuse to see myself as a failure for it. I just accept that I’m good at certain things and not good at other things and this is one of the things I am not good at! I’m a creative type; my mind doesn’t work like a computer.

I believe that this kind of thinking is one of the things that holds people back. They feel like they have to have a great attitude toward everything and suck it up when in fact, they might be better off just letting go and letting someone else do it for them and spending their time on their core competency instead of spending time doing things they aren’t good at.

So know your strengths and your weaknesses and know when to let go of “Positive” thinking! And don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it! It could make you more money and make you a lot happier than listening to other’s ideas about your “attitude!”

Ellen Violette, The eBook Coach, (www.theebookcoach.com) is the creator of the Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Program, the eBook Launch Secrets Coaching Program, eBook Profit Marketing Secrets, The Accelerated Wealth Blueprint, eBook Empire Builders, and the Virtual eBook Expo.

She teaches writers, coaches, independent professionals, speakers, and entrepreneurs how to stop trading time for money and create massive passive income online starting with an ebook, and she’ll teach you  how to write one in 72 hours or less!

Ellen is a best-selling author in her own right and co-author of Sell More eBooks, Low And No-Cost Tactics To Explode Your eBook Sales & Downloads with Internet Marketing Guru, Jim Edwards.

You can get her other free report: The 1 eBook Solution on the right side of this blog.

 

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