{"id":548,"date":"2009-10-09T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-10-09T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:21:29","slug":"the-big-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/general\/the-big-decision","title":{"rendered":"The Big Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hinted that a big decision was in the works for me, which is this:\u00a0 I&#8217;m no longer hunting for a job.\u00a0 Instead, I&#8217;m now building my coaching business.\u00a0 What surprises me is how much of a difference this makes in my life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The big change, I think, is moving from a world of scarcity (hard to find good business strategy\/operations jobs) to a world of abundance.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now my challenge to build my future business based on all the need and opportunity that I perceive.<\/p>\n<p>Another huge shift is the kind of support that I&#8217;m getting.\u00a0 When you&#8217;re looking for a job, people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sympathize and empathize,<\/li>\n<li>usually don&#8217;t have much help for actually finding an open position, and<\/li>\n<li>are often more than willing to share their pessimism and scare stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand, when I talk about the creation of a new business, most people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help build my confidence in my own abilities,<\/li>\n<li>are genuinely interested to find out more, and<\/li>\n<li>are generous with ideas, pointers, and encouragement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It certainly is scary to move away from a &#8220;comfortable&#8221; model to one that I&#8217;ve never directly experienced before.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve observed, though, for many years, as my brother and friends have built their own businesses.\u00a0 I hope, and believe, that I&#8217;ve learned enough to get going.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve started my business plan and have been talking with a great number of coaches, coaching businesses, and coaching schools.\u00a0 Possibilities are opening up and are very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m focusing on now, internally and externally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping my optimism, fortitude, and focus;<\/li>\n<li>Creating a solid business plan so that I&#8217;m really clear on what I&#8217;m doing;<\/li>\n<li>Figuring out who my most important partners are going to be to get this off the ground;<\/li>\n<li>Getting lots of help and advice of people who are familiar with this space; and<\/li>\n<li>Being patient &#8211; I&#8217;m building a long term business, even if the next year is rather rocky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Building a business isn&#8217;t for everyone, but I truly believe that this is the right decision for me at this point in my life.\u00a0 This is how I&#8217;ll make my best contribution to the world, that part of me which has been aching to break out for the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hinted that a big decision was in the works for me, which is this:\u00a0 I&#8217;m no longer hunting for a job.\u00a0 Instead, I&#8217;m now building my coaching business.\u00a0 What <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/general\/the-big-decision\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,6,7,33],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-548","7":"format-standard","8":"category-general","9":"post_tag-career","10":"post_tag-coaching","11":"post_tag-job-change","12":"post_tag-my-coaching-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}