Imagine getting new business from customers you don't have to go looking for. You don't have to introduce yourself, demonstrate the quality of your offering or convince them that you are a reliable supplier. They already know these things. And, the best part of this dream scenario is that you already know them. They are your current customers. They are your best future prospects. And, they are the key to growing your business.

Having quit the day j-o-b more than a year ago to focus solely on a business, I have learned a little bit about working alone, and getting myself back on track when it feels hard or lonely or disconnected or...

The biggest challenge to me was working in spite of feeling so isolated. I became a coach because it spoke to my soul, I wanted to make a difference in this world, and I loved the transportable bit. That’s still true now, and I needed to learn how to do that in a way that not only kept speaking to my soul, but also spoke to my financial condition.

Last month you were invited to assess the health of your business
(The Doing) and the month before you assessed yourself (The Being).
Now that you have had a chance to assess your life from both a personal
and business perspective you hopefully have a clear idea of the success
you are achieving and where you are longing for something different.

Last month we invited you to assess where you were
at personally. Before we can begin to ask ourselves
how our state of business is doing, it is imperative we know how our state of self is doing.

...helps define where you are going. As an entrepreneur, it’s remarkably easy to lose your way. Even after you have labored over your business plan and carefully planned your business’s goals it remains excessively easy to get whisked away by the day to day drama and business of running your business.

The struggle to balance business and family responsibilities is an ironic challenge for those entrepreneurs who decided to go into business so they would, in fact, have more time to spend with their children.  For this group of entrepreneurs, becoming a business owner meant missing the morning commute, taking time off to attend school activities with children or simply having an extra few hours with them in the morning and evening.  Yet venturing out on your own comes with new and even more demanding challenges unforeseen until you breathed life into business through hundreds of hours of planning and thousands of dollars of debt. 

Tamara Goddard
TACC Business Services Officer
 
Of all people, entrepreneurs are probably the worst at taking the time to acknowledge their success, let alone celebrate it! Successful entrepreneurs tend to have insatiable appetites for achieving goals.  Upon reaching their goals, they quickly form new goals, bigger goals, and are off again enroute to the next check stop where they will sit for just long enough to dream up the next impossible challenge. 

Congratulations Denise and Jay!

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What is My Purpose?

It's happening again. I can feel it creeping up like a shadow, a foreboding, dense and dark. My doctor says that it's simply stress, but there's nothing simple about it. With a sense of panic, I want to race forward into my responsibilities and run from them at the same time-kids, work, maintaining a household, social engagements, the whole daily living routine. Up at five, shower, hair, make-up, get my husband going, the kids ready for school, make breakfast, pack lunches, cajole the family into helping clean up the dishes-it's a race just to get each day started. And in between all the frantic activity lurks the nagging question: Who am I, and what's the purpose of my life?