Make the Entrepreneurial Leap!

 

Most people feel trapped by their jobs because they feel they do not have the option to choose a better way of life. This is a lesson I have learnt well over the past five years, and something that compelled me to leave behind the 9 to 5 and create my dream business. Now I work everyday building in something I believe in. I’m combining my Purpose and Passion to create Profits!

For the past 5 years I have been working in a career that did not satisfy me. I was in a corporate career that paid well, gained respect from many people and was too a certain extent, stimulating. However it was not what I was passionate about. It was not what drove me and made me feel creative. Corporate tax had been my career from the moment I got out of university. It was a career that came about by accident, as I was simply searching for a job to make money and was really at the beginning of my journey of self-discovery. I didn’t know who I was, or what I really wanted to do, or what would make me really happy. I had recovered from depression by the end of university but I still didn’t really know who I was. So I picked up the first career that came and ran with it.

I worked hard, toiled and sweated. I poured myself into it, trying hard to make myself ‘love’ this respectful career that everyone else thought was great. But I couldn’t fake it. It didn’t make me happy. It made me yearn for more. It made me realize that I didn’t want to work for ‘The Man’, working hard everyday to make money for a corporation that didn’t represent what my passion was. I wanted to work in a job that I believed in. A job that got me excited everyday, and more than anything, a job that I had created for myself.

It took me 5 years to get out, but I eventually did. This very month I walked away from my corporate career and walked straight into my entrepreneurial career. I am now a fully dedicated Women’s Life & Career Coach and I couldn’t be happier. Everyday I wake up knowing that I have a job that I LOVE. Because I designed it myself. Everyday I get to create, to meet people who feel the same passion I do, and to feel like I am in the driver’s seat. When people ask me what I do, I tell them with a big smile on my face and pride in my voice. I know that I am living on purpose and totally in alignment with my values and beliefs. The greatest thing I am most grateful for as I now live in this new reality is the new found sense of freedom. I am free to spend as much or as little time working as I like each day. I am free to spend more quality time with my daughter, family and friends. I am free to choose whom I wish to work with. And I am free to co-create my present and my future. Nothing feels as good as freedom tastes.

If you are thinking about making the entrepreneurial leap, get in touch! I’d love to work with you to help you create your dream business and re-design your life on your terms. You can email me at layla@empoweredwomencoaching.com

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