It Doesn’t Always Have to Take Adversity to Propel You to Make a Change.
I would find myself in meetings that drained me.
Energetically I wasn’t showing up as ‘Susanna’. It was Susanna -2.0.
I remember sitting at my home, aka my makeshift office ‘desk’, in 2021 after the first wave of COVID had subsided tapping away at my keyboard looking out onto my terrace and daydreaming.
Days blended into weeks and weeks into months.
In retrospect, it felt like time was vanishing from under my feet.
I would find myself in meetings that drained my soul. Conversations about forecasts (no offence to forecast junkies out there!), needing to fill in forms in a CRM to validate that I had completed a task. The more time I did things that were zapping my energy the less motivated I became, the more agitated I was - and basically the less of ‘Susanna’ was showing up. It wasn’t my finest moment if I’m being honest.
I knew something had to change.
I had thrown myself into self-discovery after a relationship that ended in 2021 and wanted to uncover who ‘Susanna’ really was. I was discovering more of what I enjoyed doing; immersing myself in travel and experiences that energised me, discovering my love for writing and expression and my thirst for wanting to build my own business. All in the pursuit of finding that ‘thing’ that I could throw my time and life into - some call it ‘your purpose’. Partially it was a conscious choice and partially subconscious. I didn’t quite know where the light at the end of the tunnel was, I just knew I had to find another way.
I could have easily continued cruising. Taking in a very comfortable 6-figure salary, the security of an income, work benefits, insurance and ’stability’. But I knew there was more to my life than just co-existing in society because it was comfortable.
I often get asked, ‘How did you make the leap from your corporate career into running your own business?’
Partially the passing of my mum was the catalyst that made me think there’s more to life and that “time is precious”.
But it was also the time I spent over the last 5+ years doing the ‘inner work’ to understand who I am and my desires. Throwing myself into books and exercises that gave me clarity. Courses and certifications that aided me with tools to work through limiting beliefs and patterns that weren’t serving me.
So to answer the question; I took the ‘leap of faith’ because to me it was SO CLEAR to me what my calling was - my purpose - and the things I desired, that it was such a natural step forward to step into my own space, to run my own business - on my terms.
It doesn’t always have to take adversity to propel you to make a change.
We don’t have to wait for trauma, the loss of a loved one, a breakup or losing your job to be the only reason to do what you truly love doing.
I’m a big believer that we get to create, and live, our lives - how we WANT to.
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