Hi ,

A few days ago I had a good few hours of a worrisome and bad mood. I'd been trying a new tool to help me design the marketing courses I sell and it just wasn't going well. I felt like it wasn't easy to use and the results were confusing, and the whole thing just put me in a bad mood!

Here's the deal, though - it's a NORMAL part of life and business to fall into worry and a bad mood. And it's our job to sooth ourselves and dig ourselves out of the worry. If we don't do this we start to say things like, "I'm overwhelmed" or "I just can't decide" or "I don't know what to do."

Having a tool to get one's self out of a bad spot is key - something you've picked ahead of time to use. It might be:

• Taking 3 minutes to breath
• Going to sit outside
• Reading a particular motivational or inspirational book for a few minutes
• Getting a drink of water
• Closing your eyes and saying a favorite saying or affirmation.

I don't recommend calling someone, although I see that advice a lot. First of all, we need to know how to self-sooth. And secondly sometimes that call turns into a pity party. "You poor thing." "It's so awful you have to go through this." These are well-meaning but do you absolutely no good. You still have to self-sooth when you eventually get off the phone!

For me, I needed to embrace my decision that I'd made to try using this new tool. I needed to try again to work with it, get enough experience with it so that I could decide if I just had newbie problems or the tool really wasn't what I wanted. Or put in a support ticket and ask for some help. My bad mood did nothing at all to help me move forward, of course!

By the way, if you are looking to ditch the worry about setting up sales pages and more you might look at Member Vault, which hosts your courses and creates a sort of "course catalog" for you. It's very updated, so far I like it. (That's my affiliate link.) You can look at the beginnings of my account by clicking here. It might be one way to ditch your worry about how to create and showcase your offers. (And no, this isn't the tool that was giving me problems!)

To your sweet success,

Sue Painter