The wisdom of Maya Angelou is known globally and her impact is unquestionable.
I was drawn to this quote while thinking about my own coaching journey, and my Why?
I began coaching in the 1990s, while leading and building my team of distributors to 300 throughout the UK.
The challenges weren't just about maintaining the channels of communication so that I was available to support the individual dustributor when they need it, the reliance on being available, and ready to roll up my sleeves and get stuck in to help members of my team who themselves wanted to build their teams, and mainly at the weekends.
This meant extensive weekend travel to various locations in the UK. However, my biggest challenge of all was running that business and bringing up a young family concurrently.
I will always remember the struggles to find suitable and trustworthy cover to take care for my children, and if I ever had a reason to give up that would have been it.
Balancing the love for my children and the love for what I did, helping others succeed, was at times like climbing a mountain without the correct tools, harnesses, helmets, etc.
This had brought me to many crossroads, where my decision-making ability often under went much scrutiny.
On every occasion, the decision was, giving up 'is not an option! '
What helped me to continue to do what I loved were
- having a mentor, who was also my accountability partner
- having a plan
- gaining the knowkedge of how to execute my plan
- having and exercising self-belief and self-discipline
- building resilience and faith
- doing the work required
Looking back, I feel a sense of achievement and satisfaction that I helped my team and, myself, to reach some big goals/milestones in business, and being recognised and awarded for our achievenents, many times over.
This is because I had pursued doing what I love.
If you're still struggling with
- doing everything alone
- not have a workable plan
- not knowing how to move forward in your business
- you don't believe it's possible to have a viable and profitable Startup
- you want to fall in love with your Startup
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Goodnight and Sweet Dreams ❤️💚🖤