Your dream may be more possible than you think

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When I began my online Transformational Coaching business in 2017, I didn’t know if my vision was possible, but I was excited to find out. 

I began as Stephen Covey said, “with the end in mind”. My challenge - to create a profitable (in my terms which includes Social Return on Investment) coaching business AND enjoy every day AND do it in a sustainable way. 

In 2021, I'm marvelling at how beautifully my vision is realised and with relative ease (compared to other ventures I have undertaken). Not to say I haven't worked hard, I have. Like all good entrepreneurs, I’ve faced down fears, taken risks, stretched, grown, and kept going even when conditions were tough. There has been snot and tears at times. But, bolstered by excellent support, faith, purpose, confidence in my skills, and commitment to enjoyment, the journey has largely been an enlivening adventure rather than a struggle.

The main difference is that I’ve been looking inside for my definition of “success”, not outside. 

For twenty years, I’ve begun each year with a vision for the next 12 months expressed in a drawing. My January 2017 vision depicts one focus of becoming an international coaching entrepreneur. A foundation of the things that nourish me, laughter, nature, love. Learning about the new territory of online business through investment in a 12-month academy (DLA). Sourced and guided by my faith. Turning my dream into reality by taking consistent bold baby steps. Fuelled by the purpose of making my contribution to a more positive future for the world.   

The ingredients of my unique vision are: 

  • Meaningful work – I have a purpose to contribute to a more positive future for the world. 

  • Enjoyable – This is my life here, now. Enjoying it is my top priority. 

  • Highly successful – Making efficient and effective use of my refined expertise to generate income and social impact. 

  • Sustainable – A light touch environmentally and a holistically healthy way for me to live and work to retirement and beyond. 

  • Freedom – To get paid for being myself and to work why, how, where, when and with whom I choose. 

My own story was the inspiration for my entrepreneurial vision. In brief: 

  • Overachiever, perfectionist, A-type personality. Always working hard and creating results, often feeling overwhelmed and pressured.

  • Fell into running my first business as an architectural glass artist straight out of university. 

  • On the side, began training in personal transformation. 

  • 15 years of creative business development later, I sold Juicy Glass Ltd to move into a decade of employment in business education, development, and corporate coaching. 

  • A difficult journey in my 40’s (divorce, bereavement, burnout) led to a recognition that despite the external success I wasn’t happy or healthy, and a deep realisation that life is HERE, NOW.  

  • Determined to “live the life of my dreams on a daily basis”, I set out to heal and design the ideal work and life situation for my new chapter. 

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I turned my experience and expertise into highly tuned coaching programmes to serve those jaded leaders motivated to change and contribute. Supporting them to take stock, conjure up their own inspiring vision of the future and draw on and re-purpose their amazing skills, qualities, courage, and expertise to realise it.  

What is your unique vision of the future? 

Nothing in life is guaranteed, but, you are almost certainly better equipped, more resourceful and more capable of living your dream New Chapter than you perhaps believe.

If your unique dream matters to you, give yourself permission to pursue it.

Be as kind, generous and encouraging to yourself as you would be to another person setting off on a brave adventure and head in the direction of your dream baby step by baby step.

The most important thing is setting off in the right direction for you.