Welcome to the world my ‘Should’ baby business.
When I first left my corporate job I used some stepping stone opportunities to lead me out. I was definitely not one of those cliff jumpers & see what happens kinda gals. I have a very annoying conservative side! Intuition reminded me that leaving a tap that flowed money to a mirage situation… would be stressful not the actual freedom I was woed by online. Don’t get me wrong I fully admire someone who just leaves their job but GOSH it IS not the best strategy to start with.
For me I would have built a business from fear and lack. Because even the best laid biz plans come unstuck. Especially in your first year. You actually don’t realise that your first business plan is born unnaturally…But via your corporate mentality, your limiting beliefs and your shoulds. You spend the next year desperately wanting people to like you, buy from you and to have your dreams come true. So you can wave your victory flag, not wait …wipe that smug smile from the nay-sayers. You just raised your baby via the ‘books’. Other authors who walked their own paths.
♥ The first year is biz can be totally like having a baby… You don’t know what the hell you are doing hahah. Sure you read the books, go to courses, get a sleep coach and ask the wise old elders. BUT you are still not calling the shots or following your intuition 100%. You and the biz are in full growth, sponge it up mode, let’s see what happens if I do this strategy. Even if you follow a proven model…You will still see it through your corporate eyes. The indoctrinated ideas, values and habits that come from being employed for so long. Hell you have followed someone else’s vision, mission and strategy …Birthing your own can HURT!
The first few months are wonderful. People visit you, give you encouragement and it’s all you talk about. Then they stop calling, stop turning up and you are left on your own with the business that needs constant feeding, burping and changing!
♥Enter the 2nd year of biz. When you have found your feet, your message, your voice and your tribe. This is the year for substantial money growth & setting down bigger visions.
My blog today was to show you the realness of going into your own biz. Be prepared to have sleepless nights, periods where you don’t know if you can do it, days of elation, then days of WTH! You do have to go on this steep learning curve though. To see what it takes to survive the first few years. And believe it or not it has more to do with your mindset than the viability.
In January I am launching ShapeShifter. It is for those of you who are in the first few years of biz OR who are stepping out from your corporate cloak. Over 6 weeks I will help you shift some of that learnt employed behaviour & shape your own vision. This is my calling now… To help you do what I did. Let me empower you to find your own voice, follow your intuition and build a viable business that impacts your world.
It is your time now.
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