Let’s go back in time to 2015…
Stephanie was (un)happily running Book More Brides and yearning for when she stumbled upon the website of coach Elizabeth Ellis, who I ended up hiring.
Here are the actual answers I wrote on the consultation form:
What results do you want to create?
- $300,000 annual income from a business working with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, helping them create an action plan for a life and business they love.
- Write a publish a book exploring the process of identifying one’s purpose and passions and manifesting it in the world through business.
- Move to an inspiring environment (probably the Asheville, NC area) that lets me be surrounded by nature.
It’s important to take action now because I don’t know how much time I have, and I want to make it count. I don’t want to put off my happiness or my calling.
I’d like to stop making things more difficult than they have to be. I would stop working so hard all the time.
I’d like to eliminate the overwhelm of an unending To Do List.
Help me develop an action plan to get from where I am now to where I want to be.
It’s fascinating to step through time and take a peek at what the world looked like to me back then. Especially noticing what I thought was the missing piece:
An action plan.
If only someone told me what to do, I would do it! No wonder I was working so hard all the time, as if doing was the answer to everything.
But here’s what I discovered:
It wasn’t more action that set me free. It was slowing down.
Trusting the next small step was enough. Doing less and creating the space inside myself, which manifested as space outside of me.
Today, I’m thrilled to note that I did end up creating much of what I asked for:
- A business I love serving purpose-driven entrepreneurs
- A move to an inspiring place (hello, Portugal beaches!)
- A life that feels deeply aligned
But I didn’t get here because of an “Action Plan.”
I got here by learning how creation really works, and playing with it.
And now, that’s what I help my clients to do.
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Yours in love and play,
Steph
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