Do you have an Entrepreneurship “theme” for the new year?
8:11 am in The Journey, articles by Jane Chin, Ph.D.
Do you ever end the year knowing that you want to explore a particular “theme” on your journey (whether this be personal, professional, or entrepreneurial) for the new year?
This year my personal / professional / entrepreneurial “theme” seemed to be “struggling and stressing”. I made the decision earlier this year to raise my young son full time, rather than hiring a nanny (we’d interviewed 6 or 7 nannies before I came to my decision) resuming my regular business activities and working the way I used to work before I became a parent.
Since my decision I’d been struggling to shift the way I “used to” work (i.e. 12+hrs a day doing something relating to my businesses) to how I now have to/want to work (i.e. working in 5 min increments and maybe 30-90 minutes during child’s nap or after child goes to bed).
I was stressing out from this struggling!
For the new year, I’d like my theme to be “going with the flow!”
I want to produce at least the same – or better – business results of this year, but at half the stress level.
(In a separate article I’ll share some of my lessons learned for producing the 6-figure business result I produced this year.)
Image by Ivan Prole
While the decision to concentrate and be a good parent can be taken instantaneously, the shifting how we “used to work” is a process which involves a lot of “unlearning” and “learning”. Hence the struggle and stress related to it. It is wonderful life after one achieves “going with the flow” through this process and then one is happy that the whole decision and what followed happened. Then your mentoring will automatically have aspects of achieving a good life as a part of it.
Look forward to hearing more.