How to deal with Negative Voices and Fear

Hi everyone, it’s Amina here. Nice to talk to you again, I hope you're having a lovely time wherever you are. I had a lovely weekend and I'm sorry I've been quiet for a couple of weeks. That's because I have been training a new team member. We've been quite busy in the office trying to get everything sorted out for her to be ready for work. So now the induction is over and I'm back to recording.

Today I want to tackle an issue that I seem to get a lot of questions about. This issue is;

How do you deal with negative voices, and how do you deal with fear?

So, negative voices first, whenever you start something new there will always be people that would tell you you're crazy, there will always be people that do not believe in what you believe in and that's just a fact. Most of the times people like that, are the people that are closest to you … Those that you expect to support you and to understand what you're doing.

So, for instance, a close...

Hi there, it's Amina here, thank you very much for joining me. Today I'm talking about Diverse Cultures Publishing, I want to explain a bit more about the concept of co-authoring what that means, what it entails, what's in it for you and why you should consider it.

The aim of our organisation is to encourage people that wouldn't otherwise be able to for whatever reason write 300 pages of a book on their own. And those wanting to leverage the camaraderie of having to write with other people so that they can increase their reach.

The concept of co-authoring came to me in 2010 when I first wrote my first chapter with a lady in the US called Linda Ellis Eastman. With Linda, I submitted a 15-page chapter in one of her books. I didn't even know how it was going to work because for me.

All I knew before that, was, I must think about what to write, the 300 pages I had to write, I had to find a publisher and an editor. I'm going to have to think of how it's going to make it to book.

However...

I wanted to answer one question I keep getting asked.

When is the right time to start a business?

People come to me and say that they like what they are seeing and what I am doing but it’s not the best time for them. They are waiting to get stuff together. To get information that they want to get that is when they can think start thinking about what business they can start?

A friend of mine asked me: When is the right time to start?

My honest response: I don’t know,

I don’t think there is ever a right time to start anything, circumstances will lead you to change, circumstances will lead you to do what you want to do. Circumstances will also lead you to change your job or start a business, but in terms of starting a business, I have started a few businesses in my lifetime, some have been good and some have been massive failures, but at the end of the day the one thing that I know is the drive for me is the need to make a difference in somebody else’s life.

So, I have an IT backgro...

Why is it important to leave a legacy?

Hi, I hope you are having a fabulous time, I am, I spent a bit of time with my family and it was nice and relaxing.

Back to work today and back to talking to you again I just wanted to talk to you about the importance of leaving a Legacy. We know that we are time limited on this earth and I know that sounds grim but it's a fact, right? so yes, we are time limited on this earth. In being time limited there's a lot but we still have to share there's a lot of life but we still have to enjoy it and I for one I have learnt a lot wherever you are you have something to teach other people. You have something to share with other people so why not actually think of leaving a legacy for your loved ones.

So, if you can think about a topic it or something that has happened to you or something that you've struggled with for a long time and then managed to crack and was able to solve it, imagine how great it would be if you were to put that on paper and write...