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My Year-end Reflection Questions and Answers
My year-end reflection questions (and answers) to capture the progress, gratitudes, and lessons. The year view has been a restorative process for me.
That big bout of low confidence about work 😓
When your job, your career, or your business isn’t going the way you’d like, low self-confidence can get kicked up, and that’s normal for anyone. But so hard too! Like a gut punch.
Recovering your confidence can be faster than you think, even before the work situation changes.
That negative feedback loop of low self-worth can really hang on, but a little shifting can start a positive feedback loop.
I’ve got some simple starting places for you, especially geared for highly sensitive souls who might have built up a lot of pressure inside.
New Year Unknowns and Hopes
Imagining the coming year can feel like a big foggy unknown, with some hope trying to peek through the mist. 4 things that help me when facing the new year. It’s not resolutions or a long list of goals.
Can I grow my business without doing things I hate?
Sometimes I have avoided growing my business because I equated growth (unconsciously) with having to do things I didn’t want to do — like pushy marketing, learning new (scary) technology, getting more disciplined, or working longer hours. My thinking today: growth without the yuck is possible.
Celebrating 15 Years as a Coach
After 15 years in business as a coach, perhaps it’s a coaching business success story. I share some key moments, essential ingredients of making it work, and how this journey has felt.
I still remember how happy I felt during and after that first paid coaching session. It was a life-changing moment of feeling like I could actually get paid to do something I love. That’s huge. It became real. I want that for you too.
My progress feels too slow.
So often I hear people struggling with progress taking longer than their brains think it should take. It can eat away at your self-worth.
I experience the “too slow” worries too, like how long it takes to write a new post or how long it takes to get a new program from idea to action. Humbling.
Then there’s how *loooooong* it takes to get a business to a livable income, or how long to find your ideal work situation.
It’s not just you. Change does take time.
I’ve got a simple perspective shift to share with you that is helping me deal with that discouraged feeling. I’m including a simple writing prompt that I think will help you feel the shift too.
HSP Career Story: Multi-Passionate Solopreneur – Monica
I interviewed Monica Parker because I thought you might benefit from hearing about a highly sensitive extrovert who is also a multi-passionate woman. I want you to hear how she’s making it all come together in her current career as a solopreneur.
She’s also a former coaching client who came to me to support her through a career transition.
She is now a professional organizer and has long had a portfolio career, combining different kinds of work for variety and income. We got into how does this really work?
Rebalancing my yin-yang energies as an HSP.
I got caught in an over-doing phase and not enough calming downtime balance to that. Autumn, as daylight shortens, is a good time for me to think about the yin-yang balance in my life. I have to pay attention here, especially as a highly sensitive person with old workaholic programming.
So I’ve been consciously recalibrating and I’ll let you in on how it’s going.
Career Transition as an HSP: 5 Steps to Make It Easier
Career change can be especially hard for highly sensitive people (HSPs). To be sure, we can also be good at it. As a career coach for HSPs, I’ve got some practical steps to help HSPs manage career transition stress and thrive in the process.
I remember staying in a job for years past when all my friends were saying I should get out. Because of all.the.reasons, it’s hard to break free even when you’re tired of it.
I’ll explain why career transition can be extra hard on HSPs — and how tapping your HSP strengths can make it easier for you. Imagine breaking free of the career cage you might be in.
Caring Solopreneurs + Social Media = Mismatch
If you’re trying to grow a solopreneur business with primarily social media, thinking that’s THE way to do it, I believe you will be sadly disappointed. Too many service-based solopreneurs think social media should be the center of their marketing and that’s a mistake for your energy and why you’re here.
It’s not a failure of your services if it doesn’t bring in enough business. It’s just reality.
Perhaps this will come as a relief to think of less social media. But then what?
