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Show Notes
In February I learned to embrace the emotional roller coaster of building your own business. I was surprised how quickly a “low” could turn into a “high” and then back into a “low.”
Highlights
- I am dropping the “experiment” label from what I’m up to–I’m all in on this business building thing
- Loving the ability to focus 100% on personal development work
- What I did in February
- Continuing to work with my existing clients and look for new ones
- Continuing to coach through A Social Ignition as a coach to an entrepreneurial program in a local prison
- Reading: A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us by Catherine Hoke
- Gifted to me by John Wall from Marketing Over Coffee
- Finalized my messaging which filtered into several web page updates and my new offering
- What I Learned
- The benefits of a break and the ability to focus–I’m getting getting clearer and clear on what I’m up to
- The Entrepreneurial emotional roller coaster is all too real
- Expect the emotional highs to be high and the lows to be low
- Expect those emotions to change rapidly
- The benefits of blowing off a whole day and getting out of town to reset
- Cooper Spur Mountain Resort — A great affordable place to ski on the backside of Mount Hood, particularly if you buy the family pass
- WAAM — Excellent Auto and Airplane museum in Hood River, Oregon
- Could there be a way to get away at least one a month or every other month?
- Things often take longer than they appear, but if you keep showing up, over time you’ll accomplish more than you think you can
- Follow those “inklings” and get on the phone with people, even if you aren’t sure what you want to talk about
- How to Move Forward When Visibility is Limited (042) — turns out it’s good advice
- Just about anything can inform you–going for a walk with the recorder rolling to capture your thoughts
- Feedback (positive and negative) is a gift
- Speak to what isn’t working
- Being bold with your coach can take things to the next level
- Review of Monthly Themes
- January – Start
- Lay the foundation and let’s get rolling
- Administration & Creation
- Getting the house in order
- February – Messaging
- Continue foundation work
- Heavy focus on messaging and what I’m about
- Wrote and published my manifesto
- Really fun to share with people–struck a chord with some
- Interviewed various people that I could hire to upgrade my website
- The time for doing it all myself is over
- I came to the conclusion that what I really need is a designer
- Finished coaching offers/packages
- Much easier having gotten clear on message and what I’m offering
- Providing as “packages” not “month to month” or “hourly”
- Started updating web pages
- March – Promote
- Finish web page updates
- Polish my new coaching/consulting/mentoring offering
- Promote my message and enhance my presence on social platforms
- April – We’ll see
- Theme is less clear
- Could be that we iterate through the previous loop (foundation –> message –> promote)
- Drive traffic to established landing pages
- Build mailing list and create some type of incentive to sign up for my list
- January – Start
If you are interested in doing work together, it all starts with a conversation to find out what you’re up to and how I might help. We’ll talk about a real situation you want to improve so you get a sense of what it’s like to work with me.
Credits
- Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
- Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod
- Original photo source
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