I love this time between Christmas and New Years. It's a great opportunity to reflect on the old year and lay out plans for the time ahead. This year it seems particularly productive. I've established a new theme for my life and I'm ready to move forward with confidence. After a long year of laying a stable foundation and building on it, I finally feel ready to build my coaching practice again.
I don't know why this decision took me by surprise, perhaps because just 12 months ago I had abandoned a lot of my previous ideas about the way I wanted to build my business. In fact I had almost entirely abandoned my business, choosing be an intrapreneur instead of an entrepreneur. Now I see that this was a necessary step which appeared like I was going backwards, but I was really only looping around to revisit pieces of my old life and integrate them into my new one.
In 2007 I set in motion a process which required me to entirely dismantle my old life. I had a highly successful healing arts practice in a different geographical location. I was in a marriage which had lasted more than a decade and a half. And I was just beginning to get the inkling that I wanted to transition my career into coaching. This inkling was born out of the desire to have a more simplistic lifestyle where I could work from home or anywhere I desired. I wanted to develop more helping skills and use them in ways that my massage and energy healing practice would not allow. I also wanted to have a better partnership and had finally decided that I was willing, if needed, to give up my current husband in order to get that. Little did I know at the time that I was asking for a change of epic proportions which left very few pieces of my old identity standing.
So here I stand, virtually on the eve of 2012, with my feet under me, free of old internal and external restraints, living in a new location, thriving in a better partnership, still doing my healing work, and living more deeply and richly than I had dared to imagine. It was a long trip which seemed to happen in just a split second. So I stand here at the door of where I started, ready to begin coaching again. Only this time a lifetime has been lived in just 5 short years. Mountains have been climbed and moved and totally leveled. Boats have been rocked and capsized and salvaged. Pieces of my dormant inner spirit have reemerged begging for expression. It's no wonder that I needed to set aside my coaching business for a while. I needed to get my bearings. I needed to land in a supportive place so that I can truly offer the best I have to give.
In 2012 I'll will build my coaching practice again, practically from scratch. It's going to be exciting, and I'm hoping that you will join me on this journey. There will be free sessions, special offers and I'll also be resurrecting some of my old coaching/healing materials which were very valuable to my past clients. Stay tuned for more. The best is yet to come!
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