searstower
10-04-2007, 12:26 AM
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to drop by with a quick note and report a bit on my success and how it's been living my dreamlines.
If you need a bit of motivation right now, know that this may be you in a few months!
Briefly, this is what I've been doing since I fired my job back at the beginning of the summer.
-Spent 4 weeks working like crazy to add to my muse, automate it, practice delegating and making it even more profitable
-Spent 1 week at Wizard Camp, something I've wanted to attend for 2 years and have long since paid for, but couldn't get the time off before while they were putting one on. (I had no cell phone or email access for an entire week since I was out in the boonies)
-Spent another 2 weeks volunteering for an outdoor adventure company up in beautiful Squamish, Canada. The company helps people break through their own limitations and teaches them self reliance skills, etc. It's a company I believe in strongly and LOVED volunteering for! (Again, I had no cell phone or email access for an entire week since I was out in the boonies)
-Spent 1 week with my best friend helping her pull off a personal growth seminar that she has been planning for a year AND found a spiritual teacher for myself. Now I'm planning at least 3 more weeks in the next 6 months to help them out with their next seminars too. (You guessed it - no cell phone or email access again - but this time I didn't even care!)
Before October is over, I will have taken 2 more trips...
-One week at a marketing seminar in LA with a client of mine. (This is a seminar I've wanted to go to for a while but never could afford. My client is taking me as her GUEST!)
and my favorite one...
-one week driving through northern Arizona with my dad to take photographs and create a DVD tour of the area with my dad as the tour guide. Not only is that trip going to be a blast, those will then be future products that I'll add to my muse's website: http://www.beckysbackyard-grandcanyon.com/ !!
Ok, so now that I'm totally psyched about my life, I'm going to confess that I don't even have everything perfect.
I think I was at my highest point of frustration when I was in my old 9-5, and, like Tim, reached this point of "I don't even care if it fails, I'm taking a break anyway."
Well, when I got back from my first week without email or phone access and everything was still working... WOW! Let me tell you, it's one thing to read it in a book and agree, and it's another to actually experience it for real with your own business.
So, my muse is not completely replacing my income yet, but it turns out that's not a problem anymore. I'm going to work part time basically doing what I was doing volunteering and getting paid for it, and spend the other two weeks on more muse building.
My biggest piece of advice to anyone out there looking to do what I've done?
Remember...
...your business/muse is there to serve YOU... not the other way around.
Good luck and godspeed, muse hunters!
Rebecca
I just wanted to drop by with a quick note and report a bit on my success and how it's been living my dreamlines.
If you need a bit of motivation right now, know that this may be you in a few months!
Briefly, this is what I've been doing since I fired my job back at the beginning of the summer.
-Spent 4 weeks working like crazy to add to my muse, automate it, practice delegating and making it even more profitable
-Spent 1 week at Wizard Camp, something I've wanted to attend for 2 years and have long since paid for, but couldn't get the time off before while they were putting one on. (I had no cell phone or email access for an entire week since I was out in the boonies)
-Spent another 2 weeks volunteering for an outdoor adventure company up in beautiful Squamish, Canada. The company helps people break through their own limitations and teaches them self reliance skills, etc. It's a company I believe in strongly and LOVED volunteering for! (Again, I had no cell phone or email access for an entire week since I was out in the boonies)
-Spent 1 week with my best friend helping her pull off a personal growth seminar that she has been planning for a year AND found a spiritual teacher for myself. Now I'm planning at least 3 more weeks in the next 6 months to help them out with their next seminars too. (You guessed it - no cell phone or email access again - but this time I didn't even care!)
Before October is over, I will have taken 2 more trips...
-One week at a marketing seminar in LA with a client of mine. (This is a seminar I've wanted to go to for a while but never could afford. My client is taking me as her GUEST!)
and my favorite one...
-one week driving through northern Arizona with my dad to take photographs and create a DVD tour of the area with my dad as the tour guide. Not only is that trip going to be a blast, those will then be future products that I'll add to my muse's website: http://www.beckysbackyard-grandcanyon.com/ !!
Ok, so now that I'm totally psyched about my life, I'm going to confess that I don't even have everything perfect.
I think I was at my highest point of frustration when I was in my old 9-5, and, like Tim, reached this point of "I don't even care if it fails, I'm taking a break anyway."
Well, when I got back from my first week without email or phone access and everything was still working... WOW! Let me tell you, it's one thing to read it in a book and agree, and it's another to actually experience it for real with your own business.
So, my muse is not completely replacing my income yet, but it turns out that's not a problem anymore. I'm going to work part time basically doing what I was doing volunteering and getting paid for it, and spend the other two weeks on more muse building.
My biggest piece of advice to anyone out there looking to do what I've done?
Remember...
...your business/muse is there to serve YOU... not the other way around.
Good luck and godspeed, muse hunters!
Rebecca