What Path Are You Following In Starting Your Own Business?

I was at a local football game recently and struck up a conversation with the lady sitting next to me.  We started chatting about different things including starting your own business.

This woman had recently lost her job due to company downsizing and was telling me how excited she was about it.  She knew that sounded strange but she had not enjoyed her job in quite a while and wanted to do something she was passionate about.

I silently asked Spirit to guide me in my discussion with her and what would be the right thing to say.

I started to ask questions about what excited and intrigued her.  As she told me about some of the workshops she had recently went to and how she was changing the way she perceived things, I realized that she was in a personal growth awakening stage.

I could tell she was very guarded because she wasn’t sure what I was thinking at the moment.  I asked her some more questions and she hesitantly told me that she was beginning to find that what you feel changes your outlook on things.

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Is Starting Your Own Business a Good Idea in This Economy?

People often come to me with this question – I have a career right now, I’ve always dreamed about starting my own business, but I’m just terrified of quitting my job and losing my regular income during this economy…

You may be surprised by my answer, but I really don’t ever recommend anyone to just quit your job to start your business.

The truth is, I did it that way myself, but I only recommend people doing that when they cannot be convinced of anything else – when they are standing at such a strong place of belief that they just absolutely know it’s going to work.

If you are not standing in that absolute place of knowing about starting your own business, don’t quit your day job – because you’ll put too much pressure on you energetically.

What really can be valuable and useful is to start out in such a way where you can begin to create some revenue from your dream business on top of what you are already doing in your career. Then, once it begins to start on the way to replacing that income, you can start activating more of the belief of, “Yeah, if I could just put some more time into this, this could really take off!”

I’ve seen a lot of people quit their job because they’ve got a dream for a business and a passion to be their own boss – but they minute they quit, they’ve activated the lack mentality of not having a regular income right away.

They’re putting out these rockets of desire, but they’re cancelling them out because of their fear and worry – it’s like putting your foot on the gas and the brake on the same time. When you do that, nothing happens!

Don’t be afraid to start more slowly…

• Put some feelers out
• Start talking to people
• Put in a couple weekend or evening hours
• Don’t invest a lot of money right away

You’ll find that you’ll be building up positive evidence through this process that is going to put you in a place of power in starting your own business that you may not have had access to before!

One client that I coached really wanted to start an organizing business. She had a passion for it and knew it could be successful…but my strong advice to her was not to quit her day job right away.

I coached her to start doing some of it on the weekends – start getting some clients and building up positive evidences before quitting her day job. Read more

How Do You Create the Foundation for Taking Action in Starting Your Own Business?

Yesterday I talked about making a 30-Day Action Plan for starting your own business.  The thing is, there are many layers to making a plan and taking action, and the stronger your foundation is, the greater your success will be.

If you are creating an Action Plan for your own business, it is a good idea to always make sure to include the following foundational steps – taking the time to create what I call an Energy Blueprint:

First, surface up the energy that you have activated about whatever goal or project you want to work on.  No matter what it is, it’s OK.

You are going to write down the beliefs, patterns, evidences, and actions - anything that’s serving you about your business.

Next, identify the beliefs that may not be serving you as well.  Drill them down! You will write these down as well.

Following that, you will create one new progressive belief – something that makes you feel just a little bit better.

You can use what I call a Merry-Go-Round visualization to assist you in emerging a progressive belief by imaging a Merry-Go-Round in a children’s park.

When you are on this kind of Merry-Go-Round, you have to run around in a circle, holding onto the bars until you have gathered enough momentum, or energy, to jump on.

If you don’t have enough momentum you won’t be able to get on.

If you are running too fast and try to jump on, you may get tossed further by the momentum. You will be able to visualize through this if you are a vibrational match to the progressive belief by seeing and feeling in this visualization if you got “On” the Merry-Go-Round.

After you have emerged a progressive belief, you will use that new belief daily in an energy management tool called Scripting. Read more