Comments on: Shift to Self-Employment – Plot Your Plan https://www.shift-it-coach.com/2010/01/shift-to-self-employment-plot-your-plan/ Become Your Next Self Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Beth https://www.shift-it-coach.com/2010/01/shift-to-self-employment-plot-your-plan/#comment-66214 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:45:03 +0000 http://www.shift-it-coach.com/blog/?p=865#comment-66214 Thank you for including # 7 in this post. I was laid off from corporate America, had health issues, then a bad accident so couldn’t work, financial problems from all of that, etc. I finally made up my mind to change my life and spent the time and work necessary to do it.

Everything is coming together now. My life is much more fulfilling. I am excited to be starting my online/offline business this year. Now that I am actually ready inside, resources and supportive people are popping up everywhere!

When you said “your pace is most likely the very best thing to do for you” and “you will make the shift in your own perfect timing” I laughed aloud with the joy of relating to those statements and knowing that I have made that necessary shift. One of my affirmations this past week, created before I ever saw this blog post, is: I control my own pace.

It was created on a day that I was feeling too much overwhelm. It calms me down and helps me every single time I say it. A friend of mine told me she is going to make a sign up for me with that saying on it to hang in my office.

I love the serendipity in life. Blessings to all who read this.

]]> By: Susan Daffron https://www.shift-it-coach.com/2010/01/shift-to-self-employment-plot-your-plan/#comment-65245 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:00:15 +0000 http://www.shift-it-coach.com/blog/?p=865#comment-65245 What a great article Christina! It’s great to see someone encouraging a rational thoughtful approach to the shift to self-employment. I’ve been seeing a lot of what I regard as irresponsible recommendations from people that if you aren’t “investing” enough money, you aren’t playing “big enough.” (Leading to the “big enough according to whom” question in my mind!) I even wrote a bit of rant about that in my newsletter last week. We all have our own tolerance for financial and emotional risk, as you point out.

Anyway, I made the shift to self-employment 15 years ago, but I still remember how huge and scary it felt that first day when I suddenly had no “job” to go to! Thank you for putting this nurturing supportive advice out there.

– Susan

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