If I have not stated this before, can I just say that this venture is pushing me to the limits of and beyond my comfort zone in so many ways. Asking people for money is not something I feel particularly comfortable doing. But I can see that if I am going to be successful in creating this educational expression, I am going to have to get comfortable with it.
Given that this is something that I feel so passionate about, that I have committed countless hours to and focused my creative life force on, it seems by extension that it should be easy for my to ask other people to give to it as well. Not so. The thought of sitting down and asking someone for $5-10 thousand dollars is terrifying. Why? Well what if they hate me for asking? What if they say no? Or what if they feel like they can’t say no, but they really want to? I guess my thinking is a little faulty, I mean this really isn’t about me, it is about the children, and who wouldn’t want to support children? Rejoice even in the opportunity? But what if I can’t express myself well enough to show people that that is what this is about? It would be so much easier for me to wrap my mind around the concept that this is not about me, if I wasn’t the one doing the asking.
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