How to Get to Your Dream Biz 18 Months Faster than Me - When I Grow Up

How to Get to Your Dream Biz 18 Months Faster than Me - When I Grow Up In August of 2007, when I (finally!) decided to get my certification and become a life coach, I started a brand new day job. A day job that would allow me to not stress about my bills and would give me grown up things like medical insurance and a 401K. And, most importantly, a day job sans overtime and be-on-call-via-Blackberry-24/7 stress that allowed me to get my certification and build my business on nights and weekends. It was a long process. I gave my notice in March of 2010, having gotten my certification and built my business up enough that I felt comfortable and confident in becoming  a Woman of the World (aka full-time entrepreneur). And now that I have 5 years of distance plus the added experience of working closely with hundreds of clients while  theyve trailed their own job-leaving, business-launching path, I can confidently say: It  doesnt have to take so long. Ive seen clients make their plans and leave their jobs in under a year. Heck, Im working with 3 clients right now who  are all planning to leave their gigs in 2015 some of them just a couple months from now! And these havent been planners, per se.  Theyve all come to the realization just a few weeks ago that they can give their notice way sooner than they initially thought. Last September, I remember that the scariest part of my CreativeLive course was  hoping that the audience would have a sense of their dream careers in just 3 days, when I usually work with my clients for 4 months. I was anxious for weeks about the outcome, waiting for the live studio members to give me blank stares when we came to the last segment. Thankfully, that fear couldnt have been farther from what actually transpired, and I breathed a sigh of relief that I got the audience the results they were looking for. I told myself, See? It doesnt have to take so long. And Im putting this new belief of mine to the test, since Ive seen quick results happen over and over again to those that commit. This time, its in the form of my newest program  Its Business Time, a collaboration with business coach Tiffany Han and designer Erin Cassidy where you’ll walk away with a business of your very own, complete with a mission statement, offerings, and a custom logo and website, made just for you in 6 months time. I have to bold repeat that for dramatic effect: Six. Months. Time. It doesnt mean that youll be able to quit your job right when those 6 months are up, necessarily (but maybe it will!). But it  does mean that youll have the makings of a real, live, professional business waaaaaaaaay earlier than I did. Sure, my original website complete with a bright blue background and a logo of flowers got the job done for a time, until I shelled out for a real logo (almost a year later!) and threw it onto the site. Fast forward a whole  nother year when I could  finally afford to get my site professionally designed. It was  then, in early 10, that I had the confidence to give my notice and  feel like I could  really make this work. Yes, my certification + client experience and interest + savings + professional site = feeling I could really, truly be a Woman of the World. And while I  learned a ton in those 2 years and 7 months and built a strong foundation for my biz, Id be lying if Id say that Id get in a time machine and do it all again in less time. If I could make the time gap between my initial site and my professional site shrink from 2 years to 6 months? A big DUH  to that. Are you ready to save yourself ~18ish months  of work and step into the belief that This Doesnt Have To Take So Long? I hope so. Tiff, Erin and I are hosted a free webinar entitled What We Want You To Know About Starting a Business. Sign up here and youll get the info in your Inbox!