Follow Your Heart to True Happiness
Follow Your Heart to True Happiness
Follow Your Heart to True Happiness
Wow - what a day we had yesterday! We launched our blog and our new internet marketing business! Luckily no sign of any contractions yet, so at least I didn't literally have to give birth also on the same day!!
Today, we are celebrating just getting this far!
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
For the past 7 years we were involved in a traditional multi-level marketing business kidding ourselves (and plenty of others) that we were doing well. We had made it to one of the leadership levels, we were well-known and respected at the monthly hotel meetings we attended every single month without fail. We had a large circle of friends and acquaintances through the business and had made some very special friends too. We were part of the Strategy and Planning group that ran the meeting and were therefore also regulars on stage as trainers. We loved that side of the business but as the months went on and our earnings went backwards, it was all becoming more and more of a farce! Ian and I met through the business and we both loved the company's products (and indeed still use them now!) so in those early years I think we both truly believed that we would be in it for life - no matter what! No matter how long it took, this was the business for us. But the more we started to struggle financially, the more the business started to take it's toll - initially mainly on Ian. He would have walked away much sooner but for the fact that I still held this incredible belief that we could turn it around. But looking back, I realise the real reason I wanted us to carry on was more to do with the fact that I was trying to save face. I was more concerned with what our friends would think. The Gouldings - giving up? Doing something else? What about loyalty? And what would our families think? "They've spent the last 7 years telling us how great the business and the products are and now they are walking away? What a waste." It was only once I could admit that to myself, that I could take a step back and actually ask myself, how happy am I with this situation, with this business, with what we are doing? And the reality is - I was terribly unhappy. I was starting to feel the same "tiredness" as an had been feeling for probably the previous 18 months! So we made the decision to let go and search for something new.
No-one's Saying It's Easy - But It's Necessary!!
As difficult as it was to say goodbye to those times, sometimes you just have to make the break. Do what's right for you, not what you think someone else thinks is right for you! Do what makes you happy, not keep doing something because you think it will keep someone else happy. And do it regardless of what you think others might think of you. Too often, people live an unhappy existence, either in their job or relationship, marriage etc, because they fear what others might say if they actually make a break in search of a better life, job, partner that will actually make them happy! Ian and I have both been there, on all these levels and although in most cases it took us a while to realise what we needed to do to be truly happy, we got there!
Can You Honestly Say You Are Truly Happy?
So I would urge anyone to really look at their life and I mean all aspects of your life. Your job, your income, your relationships, your spouse, your social life, your health!! Ask yourself - am I truly happy? If you love your job, that's great. But I know very few people in reality who do actually love what they do for a living. Ian and I were both in jobs we'd grown to hate but stuck around because it was "easier" to keep doing it, than to look for something else. It took for me to meet Ian to realise just how unhappy I actually was with my partner of 5 years at the time. I can say with honesty - looking back, 3 of those 5 years were miserable but with joint responsibilities like mortgage, 3 cats, car payments etc, it just seemed easier to hang around than to face reality and make the break!
The Ones that Matter? No-one But You!
So getting back to our new business - thank goodness I saw the light and finally "allowed" us to walk away and start the search for a new beginning! And what did our friends and family say? To be honest, it doesn't matter! They are not going to pay the bills or save for our retirement. That's our responsibility so regardless of what they have to say, it had to be our decision!!
Follow Your Heart to True Happiness
By: Karen Goulding
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