In 2015 I left the security of my full-time job to follow a dream.
I wanted a career that was fulfilling.
If I was going to get up every day and leave my beautiful daughter, I wanted the work to be worth it.
I knew with 100% certainty that I wanted this.
What I didn’t know was how we were going to make it work financially. My husband’s salary was $55,000 and we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. The details were NOT worked out…
Even so, in 2015 I started my training to become a life coach for moms. We paid for it out of savings. I worked full-time and took classes.
I was 33 years old and my daughter was 8 months when I started.
In 2016 I took a leap of faith and left my full-time job for a more flexible schedule as a contractor. Same work…more flexibility. Financially it turned out to be a huge blessing, which was a good thing because that first year of coaching I made $0.
Even so, I was 100% certain this was what I wanted.
In 2017 the contracting work dried up and I had my son, Emerson. I went "all-in" to my business and invested $8K in a program that I had hoped would help me figure out how to become profitable and we sold stock in order to pay for it.
That year, I made $2K in my coaching business. We lowered expenses down to the bare minimum and we lived off of my residual income from the prior year as well as our tax refund.
Still, I was 100% certain this was what I wanted.
In 2018, things began to come together. I was feeling momentum in my business, had clear systems in place and was taking on more clients than ever before. I grossed $30,000 that year (that’s a 1400% increase) but we had to sell some stock to pay our bills and childcare.
Still, I was 100% certain this was what I wanted.
Then came 2019. Even though money was tight, I invested $10K in a Mastermind. Not long after, my husband lost his job and went on unemployment. Even so, I was 100% certain this was what I wanted and by the end of the year, my business had grown by 250% and I had taken on over 45 clients. I made over $100,000.
In 5 years I went from $106,000 to 5-figures.
I could not have told you with any certainty that I would experience this kind of success when I started to follow my dream of having a fulfilling career. If I had waited for that level of certainty, I would have never started. All I was certain of…was the dream.
I wanted a fulfilling and financially successful professional life AND a thriving family. It took 5 years to get it.
If someone had told me that I would reach my goal in 5 years, but it was going to require financial sacrifice, overcoming self-doubt, up and down emotions, never feeling like I knew what I was doing, etc.…would I have still done it?
Yes.
And my guess is, you would too...because all we ever really want is to be certain of our successes. To ensure we won't fail.
But the thing is, you can never be 100% certain. Only 100% in the belief of its possibility.
Stop waiting for certainty to come around before you follow your dreams.
Stop waiting for the details to get clearer before you take a leap of faith.
Stop thinking you’ll get to it when life gets easier when money isn’t as tight and or when your kids get older.
Certainty will never come...but belief can.
And that is all it takes.
