A few days ago I was exploring how we are dealing with resistance, how we accept to stay in our comfort zone without taking any actions, how we are saying No to ourselves and our goals. You might have noticed that my last blog posts are all about changes and new directions. I am in a professional transition and I want to share it with you because I know that I am resisting to accept changes coming through.
You see I want to say goodbye to some of my services and focus on new once, I want to say goodbye to some clients and start to work with slightly different types of people. I want to change the brand of my business… Once I realised that changes are knocking to my door I started to think:
No, you can’t do that because…
It’s not original, there are other people who are doing the same
You can’t leave your clients and people who are following you
Who do you think you are
You changed your website last year, why do you want to do it again
You are ridiculous
and so on… all my limiting beliefs, insecurities showed up
Then I realised something and suddenly I started to accept the this is a time for a change.
Here is what I noticed:
1. Change and transition require time. Allow yourself the necessary time to think about what it is that you want to change in your career or business. Reflect how do you see yourself in a new career or business? Be a dreamer! Explore and ask questions. I spent some time visualising myself in a new business and my willingness to a makeover grew up.
2. Change means ambiguity. I watched a film about Picasso another day. There were many moments in his career when he was changing his model or lover and you could spot some kind of ambiguity in his paintings. You could see a mix of Dora Maar or Francoise Gilot in his paintings. The same is with your work. There will be a little bit of old and new version of you in your brand new project before you get crystal clear about what you really want to do, communicate and share.
3. Change means a new style. I read an interesting blog post about it. When you are growing up you change your style, you grew out of your old clothes and you buy the new one. Or you want to communicate your message and purpose through a different style. The same is in your career or business, you can be bored with your current job position or business. Your aspirations are different. Your message is different and your life purposes changed. Maybe the time for a career makeover is now?
4. Change brings all your limiting beliefs and insecurities. You can say to yourself all you want: I am too old, it is not the right time, it is not going to work. But those are only thoughts and how are you going to deal with them will affect your future. Think about if you are going to stay in the same position for the next weeks, months, years how are you going to feel? Instead of saying yourself I can’t do that, start saying I can, this is the right time, what steps can I take, how can I start.
5. Open yourself to support. Think about who can help you. Asking for help doesn’t mean that you are weak. It means that you are investing in yourself. You care about your career and business. You care about the people you are serving. You care about your family and friends.
I will be sharing with you more about my own personal transition.
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Currently, she is enjoying a laptop lifestyle while travelling across Europe.
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