What do you do, when you want to make a difference in the world and speak out, but the childcare, the washing and the general daily grind of life keep getting in the way?
What do you do when the outcome of what you know you can achieve could really help the people, but you are so exhausted from single parenting and bogged down with just trying to earn a basic living to survive, that you can’t think straight or harness your real potential, let alone move forward with a new business idea? You find another way, that’s what. To quote the fabulous Brene Brown form her book Rising Strong – “We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”
It was during a discussion last year with the wonderful mindset and messaging mentor, Suzy Ashworth, that the idea of 60 songs in 60 days first came about. I duly wrote it down in my black book and promptly forgot all about it.
Whilst going through the practical stuff needed to start any new venture, the creativity side of things started to take a bit of a back seat. I was caught up in branding, e-mail, trademarking, websites, blah, blah, blah and I also found that these were all quite welcome distractions from the very thing that I knew would ultimately have the most effect. The songs themselves. I also had a sneaking suspicion that I was avoiding it, so after ignoring the thought that kept waving at me from the dark corner in the back of my mind for a very long time, I finally bought it out into the light and had a stare out competition with it. It won. There was no getting away from it. I was scared.
I had been running my own interactive music sessions for under 5’s and their carers for the past 5 years, which I had set up when my youngest was one. But following my own traumatic and challenging life experiences and the subsequent decision to take the glorious journey inwards, I had been inspired to use music to empower children, promote real connection and deliver messages of self-love and courage through the vehicle of music. I seriously wanted to help raise the collective consciousness and ultimately inspire the next fierce generation to listen to their inner voices and to have the courage to believe in themselves. Yet here I was, with the most important idea of my whole life screaming at me to take aligned action and take the plunge and I was struggling with my very own courage and self-belief. It was so ironic it was laughable! I was totally bricking myself. The idea of LaLa Tigers, whilst just nice and safe in my head, seemed all well and good, but the vulnerability of putting myself out there ….actually doing it and showing up in my life the way I really wanted to and inspire others to do was paralysing me and making me shrink away from being the Tiger Warrior Princess that I knew I was capable of being.
It was several months later and during one of my regular 5 am journalling sessions (I did say courage not comfort right?) that the idea drove through my head once again. Then it parked up, put it’s hazards on and started honking the horn. Then it put a blankie over its knees and got out some egg sandwiches. I tried to pretend it wasn’t there for awhile, but I have finally had to succumb to the outer forces that are compelling me to do this, whether I am scared of this or not. So here it is. I will write 60 songs in 60 days. This both excites and terrifies me, but you just never know where this journey will take me.
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