Growing up, I always had a dream of owning my own business one day. I had worked many different jobs over the years and tried many things, never giving up on my dreams. 15 years ago my husband took very ill and we had no idea what the outcome of that illness would bring.
A few months later an opportunity for me to purchase the business I was then employed at came up. Because I had always wanted to own my own business and due to my husband's illness, I decided to jump at the idea. And this was not just my own business, it was doing what I was passionate about.
I am still running that business to this day, however much differently. When I got into business I never realized what it entailed. The work that was involved and all the red tape of owning a small business. I became completely emerged in my work, not having time for anything else in my life.
I became so overworked and emotionally drained, never having time for myself, facing obstacle after obstacle and never seeming to get ahead no matter how many hours I worked. I really began to hate it.
After the first few years I could really feel the affects on my health and my relationships. My work was taking precedence over everything else in my life. I was so afraid of not succeeding that I did everything in my power to make it work.
I came to a point where I just wanted to sell and get out of it. I felt like I was on the verge of a breakdown. You see all my life I had been taught to believe that if I worked really hard then I would be successful and have everything I wanted. Even though I seen my dad work really hard his whole life and end up with nothing in the end there was part of me that still believed that. At that time I was introduced to a program that started me thinking
The most important lesson that I got from that particular program was that maybe I needed to start looking at myself. You see I knew there had to be more to life than what I was experiencing but I was blaming the business and the people and everything else for the reason things were not working in my life.
I began reading a lot of books and taking more seminars and they were all great, and I was leaving there feeling good and totally motivated to make some changes. What I realized is that I didn't know how to change myself. I tried a few things but nothing seemed to work so then I would try to change things at work and that was not working really well either.
I became very interested in personal growth and continued to read books and go to seminars hoping that something would help me to make the changes I needed to make in order for me to live my life the way I wanted to live.
In 2004 when the "Secret" movie came out, things started to make more sense to me. Things started to shift for me and I started to feel differently. I became more hopeful, happier and things started to ease up a bit at work. Although things had improved, there was still something missing. I was feeling very unfulfilled.
Why was I struggling with this?
In 2005, I received an email from a friend of mine that I hadn't heard from in a couple of years. In the email was his testimony related to a life coaching program he had taken. When I read the testimonial I was amazed, so I called him right away. After hearing and sensing the difference it had made for him, I decided to call and take the free consultation that was being offered. I was thinking at the time that if this could help me then maybe it could help my husband who was living in constant pain from his previous illness.
A week later I was doing my first coaching session and believe you me there was no turning back. A month into the program my husband also started doing sessions. Today he is back to work on a full time basis with little to no pain at all. Our relationship is absolutely amazing. We have fallen in love all over again. I began taking more time away from my business and enjoying life and now I have it running efficiently and very productively without me which allows me to experience time freedom for the first time in my life.
I spent most of my life working hard and trying to figure things out. Now I have moved beyond all boundaries, limits, beliefs and restrictions to a deeper sense of personal freedom and authentic wholeness. I am experiencing freedom in every sense of the word.
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