It’s easy, if you let yourself, to become utterly paralyzed in your life. Your mind can find more reasons to stay still, and small, and afraid, than it ever will to take the risk, make the leap, and dare to fail. Until you DO something, you will never know what it’s like. And indeed, when you start doing something new, no matter what it is, it’s very likely that you won’t be very good at it. But how else do you improve?
A little more than three years ago I took my passion for photography from hobby to profession. Up until then, I had spent years working in support jobs in all sorts of industries, but they were all corporate-y and not the least bit in tune with who I really was. But those lost years* aren’t really the worst part. The worst part was that ultimately what kept me ensnared in those jobs was the deep seeded doubt that I had anything really worthwhile to offer the world. I stayed small and safe because I was afraid there was nothing else I could do. I was wrong.
My photos got me out of the cubicle and into the world. I saw that I didn’t always have to be in service of others in their art, that I could be the artist. I saw that I was good at connecting with people, meeting them where they were, and giving them the attention they needed in that moment to trust me and themselves. I saw that I had a hell of a lot more to offer than I’d ever considered and it was about time I stop playing small with my life.
In parallel with my growing photography business was my contact and awareness of these people called “life coaches”. I took some e-courses, read a lot of blog posts, and even more tweets. Before long I started to feel the pull. I loved taking photos for my clients, but there was something else, something bigger still, that I wanted to do with my time here. I have been the hopeful, helpful type my whole life, but never saw an avenue to really do something with that inclination until now.
But I need your help.
My training with Martha & crew is still very much underway. We are learning new tools each week, and getting great experience practicing on each other and watching the Master coaches at work, but I need more. Like Yoda once concisely put it, “Do, or do not, there is no try.” I have to do the scary thing and start putting these new skills to actual use. To good use.
My simple plea: if know someone (and that someone could be you!) who might benefit from working with me I would be so grateful if you’d spread the word.
How do you know if you might want to work with me? I ask you these questions:
Are you at a place in your life where you know you want more, you just couldn’t say what that is?
Are you ready to make a change, or already have, and now need to figure out how things fit together?
Are you searching for your passion, that thing that will make you wake up at 3am and HAPPILY get out of bed to work on it?
Are you longing to have inspired conversations about the best life you can create for yourself, right now?
Yes to any of these? Then you’re my people. Come on down.
To start I’m going to offer a limited number of free sessions and see where we go from there. All these sessions will be about 50 minutes long and held over the phone or skype, so location is not an issue. To find out more info about how all this works please shoot me an email at rebecca@simplyrebecca.com
And to everyone that has been cheering me on, and you know who you are, Thank you. With all my heart Thank you.
More to come next week, I am giddy to share…
*They weren’t really lost though, I needed every one of those experiences to get me here today. Who knew you could be grateful to “wasted” time? 
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Abby at last year’s walk… she’s got her paws crossed we stay dry again!
