How to Set Yourself Up for Longterm Success in Business

How to Set Yourself Up for Longterm Success in Business

Just like anything in life, building a business takes work of course.

And just like anything, learning and understanding how things work requires patience, experience, trials & tribulations and actual situations to apply each skill in.

However, most likely your introduction and trainings about business creation & development have been one sided.

Or nonexistent.

In my business' first iteration, I wanted a private practice but I chose, without a thought, a graduate program in social work (like most counseling and social work graduate programs) that did not teach a single class about business or marketing or opening up a private practice.

This is all too common in the helping professional field.

Despite having no guidance in the business arena, I knew deep in my heart that solopreneurship was an empowering opportunity for me.

And I believe it even more today.

It creates space for so much choice and power.

This freedom of choice and this newly discovered empowerment can be exciting.

That excitement can get intoxicating too.

So here is a tip to prevent getting hopped up on adrenaline and fantasy.

Oh and then crashing and burning.

Allow yourself to take it in one bit and piece at a time.

It's a layer by layer process. Especially for you deep soul.

This is what people don't usually talk about. It's more fun to talk about being an overnight success and going viral and exceptions to the rule.

Because it's surface.

It's instant gratification.

It requires less of YOU.

But what you need to hear is how to bring more of YOU into this whole game:

how to commit

how to sustain

how to be consistent

how to execute

how to show up

how to rise up

How to intend and execute, i.e. make your purpose tangible for other people to relate to....with your voice, heart and soul at the center of it all!

You aren't going to figure all of that out overnight.

You aren't going to build a sustainable business from a few viral videos or a couple sold out workshops.

Instead, I suggest taking the slow and steady approach.

I call it "the slow and steady wins the race" approach.

Quite frankly, this approach works for everything but basically no one talks about this anywhere in the world.

Ok, most don't ;)

I urge you to keep working on each piece. To keep hanging in there. To keep asking for help.

Eventually, all of it comes together like one big symphony.

Never give up for you are far too valuable. This world needs you helping the clients who need you.

Now make like a turtle and stroll my friends!

Talk soon, xo,

Jen