Thursday, January 04, 2007
I don't think it's a Mid Life Crisis!
I don't think it is a mid life crisis - but, I've just quit a high paying job that I held for 7 years - with absolutely no other source of income.
I've started studying the Kabbalah, I listen to Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra MP3's every week and I have a picture of a Jaguar XKR on my fridge - and I am probably going to buy this year.
The only thing is - I am totally at peace! Isn't a mid life crisis about trying to quiet an inner feeling of dissatisfaction? I feel like I am moving toward something I want - not running away from something I despise.
True, I didn't feel like I could live the life of higher consciousness and bliss I desired while customers were calling me frantic about receiving the wrong color pen! I was an account exec for a very large B2B distributor of Office Products, Furniture and Professional Cleaning supplies.
So, my customers were all fortune 500 companies - and I had to deal with CEO's who cared about profitability and process improvement; as well as admnistrators who's task was to keep the office full of blue pens - God forbid we should ship a black pen by accident.
OHMMMM...but, that is not my life anymore. I have been free for, well, what day is this?
It is a bit more difficult to keep track of the days of week when you don't get out of your pj's everyday.
Officially, I became "self employed" January 1st. WhooHoooo!
I think rather than a mid life crisis - I just got to a point in my life where I could no longer
ignore the feelings I was having that I wanted more! I wanted more peace, more joy, more
simplicity, more money, more fun!
All I had was work! Work and a faint dream.
Now, I don't recommend the path I have chosen - just jumping out of the airplane without a parachute. Most people I know who have made a change to self employment have started out working part time while still receiving a salary from their J.O.B.
I just couldn't do it. I worked 80 hours a week - and hated getting up every morning. I just couldn't imagine the struggle of no income could be any worse than the misery of doing something I despised every day for 12, 14, 18 hours a day.
So, here I am.
I actually do have a great plan. If you have read my blog or been to my website before you know I am part of a wonderful network marketing company. I started working with them a little over a year ago - had great success - with very little time invested. That was during a slow period at my J.O.B - between Thanksgiving and New Years 2006. I spent about 5 hours a week for about 6 weeks and had grown my income to about a third of what my "regular job" paid me.
And, I was making great money at my "regular job". But, as it always goes...80 hour work weeks were right around the corner and my little business just disappeared.
Any business, including direct sales, requires time and attention to build, grow and flourish. You can not expect to work for 30 hours and then quit! BUT, what I did realize is - if I could be that successful with the effort I had put in a year ago - what in the world was stopping me from replacing my income in just a few months?
Well, nothing of course except ME! So, I jumped.
I can't wait to see what happens next...I mean "create" what happens next.
To Your Total Success,
Fran
Fran Horvath
Total Success Coach
http://www.fitness-health-and-wealth.com/agel-opportunity-training.html
http://www.leadersclub.com/32742/freetape/
I've started studying the Kabbalah, I listen to Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra MP3's every week and I have a picture of a Jaguar XKR on my fridge - and I am probably going to buy this year.
The only thing is - I am totally at peace! Isn't a mid life crisis about trying to quiet an inner feeling of dissatisfaction? I feel like I am moving toward something I want - not running away from something I despise.
True, I didn't feel like I could live the life of higher consciousness and bliss I desired while customers were calling me frantic about receiving the wrong color pen! I was an account exec for a very large B2B distributor of Office Products, Furniture and Professional Cleaning supplies.
So, my customers were all fortune 500 companies - and I had to deal with CEO's who cared about profitability and process improvement; as well as admnistrators who's task was to keep the office full of blue pens - God forbid we should ship a black pen by accident.
OHMMMM...but, that is not my life anymore. I have been free for, well, what day is this?
It is a bit more difficult to keep track of the days of week when you don't get out of your pj's everyday.
Officially, I became "self employed" January 1st. WhooHoooo!
I think rather than a mid life crisis - I just got to a point in my life where I could no longer
ignore the feelings I was having that I wanted more! I wanted more peace, more joy, more
simplicity, more money, more fun!
All I had was work! Work and a faint dream.
Now, I don't recommend the path I have chosen - just jumping out of the airplane without a parachute. Most people I know who have made a change to self employment have started out working part time while still receiving a salary from their J.O.B.
I just couldn't do it. I worked 80 hours a week - and hated getting up every morning. I just couldn't imagine the struggle of no income could be any worse than the misery of doing something I despised every day for 12, 14, 18 hours a day.
So, here I am.
I actually do have a great plan. If you have read my blog or been to my website before you know I am part of a wonderful network marketing company. I started working with them a little over a year ago - had great success - with very little time invested. That was during a slow period at my J.O.B - between Thanksgiving and New Years 2006. I spent about 5 hours a week for about 6 weeks and had grown my income to about a third of what my "regular job" paid me.
And, I was making great money at my "regular job". But, as it always goes...80 hour work weeks were right around the corner and my little business just disappeared.
Any business, including direct sales, requires time and attention to build, grow and flourish. You can not expect to work for 30 hours and then quit! BUT, what I did realize is - if I could be that successful with the effort I had put in a year ago - what in the world was stopping me from replacing my income in just a few months?
Well, nothing of course except ME! So, I jumped.
I can't wait to see what happens next...I mean "create" what happens next.
To Your Total Success,
Fran
Fran Horvath
Total Success Coach
http://www.fitness-health-and-wealth.com/agel-opportunity-training.html
http://www.leadersclub.com/32742/freetape/
