Hi all-
I’ve been spending some time over the past several months thinking about how I want to execute Daring in the District and Daring Entrepreneurs. In the past I’ve tended to get really excited about a new idea just to abandon it when it didn’t happen quickly or if it didn’t immediately manifest in the way that I had envisioned. Participating in The Daring Way™ training last year highlighted, among other things, my struggles with impatience and a scarcity mindset.
In case you are not familiar with Dr. Brené Brown, she is a trained social worker who has been researching vulnerability and shame for 15+ years. She utilizes grounded theory methods in her research; this involves conducting interviews with people, analyzing the data, and formulating a theory based on convergence in the data. Over the years she has interviewed thousands of individuals and experts in various fields and has studied the existing literature on the subjects she researches. She talks about having to revisit the data again and again until it made sense and could be developed into a cohesive theory. As I learned more about her and her process I greatly admired her patience, and decided that I too could take my time in creating something that I believe in, and that the place and time in which it manifested would be right.
What’s also notable is that Dr. Brown is not the first person to study many of the concepts for which she is most famous: vulnerability, shame, self-compassion, forgiveness, and mindfulness have all been researched before. She was not put off by the idea of scarcity; she believed that she had something new to contribute to the existing body of knowledge, and she collaborated with many experts along the way. There are people already doing many of the things that I want to do, and in the past I might have been discouraged by this, but now I am confident that I will attract those who are interested in what I have to offer.
In a few days I’ll share more about my offerings and how to be kept in the loop about them. I’m looking forward to the future of Daring in the District and Daring Entrepreneurs.
~Dr. Stanley