Think beyond employment
A client called the other day and said he’d like his biography written because he was starting his own business. How exciting!
He had been searching in his field for about a year and had come up empty within the rural geographic area he wanted to stay. It was a field he’d been in for 20 years and had enjoyed much success. He left the company shortly before the global recession and found to stay in the field he would have had to move his family hundreds and possibly thousands of miles. Their two teenagers weren’t too wild about that idea, and he didn’t blame them. He was less enthused about leaving his family behind, so he felt stuck.
Then, he remembered his first love – horses. They had only been a hobby before, but he had plenty of knowledge and enthusiasm and decided it was time to take advantage of both.
He has a Web site in progress, is buying equipment, and getting financing lined up. He’s more energized than I’ve ever seen him. It appears that his earlier “job search” was perhaps part of a letting go that had to happen before he could “see” the possibility that had been there all along. He is becoming an entrepreneur.
What possibility is there in your life? Have you been job hunting as a substitute for engagement and enthusiasm for your life? Pretend that you are a child again, and someone just asked what you want to be when you grow up. What is the first thing that pops into your mind? Journal about it.
Things that sound improbable or even impossible happen every day to people who focus on their desire, make a plan, follow through with action, and believe the entire time in their ultimate success.
