Reader, Here's a real-time lesson:
Test, test, test with your audience - Too many people spend months working on an offer they never tested with real people! Be swift in your apology and clarify when misunderstanding happen. Mistakes and misunderstanding happen, act swiftly and maintain open and transparent communication with your audience so you never lose their trust in you! I sent the email below earlier this morning. Then received messages from my community congratulating me on becoming a full-time boss. I re-read my email and realized, oh my, it did come across that way - like I've quit my job! No, I haven't quit my 9-5 job :) What I meant was I removed all the past companies I worked for as an employee in my LinkedIn profile. I put them all under 1 umbrella of the company of me, 'Sharon Singh Sidhu'. It's a psychological retirement. But it's helped me shift my focus and commitment towards working on my own brand, under my own company. This means:
Previously, my idea of growing a career was solely through employment. Now, it's what kind of work I choose to fill my time with. I'm sorry if I misled anyone! Have a good week! Here's that earlier email (Despite tweaking a few words after it went out, it still created some misunderstanding!)👇 Yes, that's right. I retired my corporate career by removing my job titles on LinkedIn and put them under the umbrella of the 'Sharon Singh Sidhu' company. And it felt scary to do that! Funny how attached we get to our job titles and the companies we've worked at. Although I've had side gigs for almost a decade now, it felt like I didn't fully commit to it.
But when I turned 50 this year, I decided to gift myself my childhood dream of being my own boss. This simple act of detaching from my past corporate identity was a concrete and psychological step to commit to this dream from now on. I 'came out' and started getting visible on LinkedIn.
If you're feeling like you're running on a hamster wheel in the rat race, and feeling like something's off, take a moment. Pause and ask yourself:
If it will, by all means, continue. But if it's starting to feel a little 'off', like something's missing, it's an indication it might be time to reflect and reassess.
My grandma lived until 100 and my mom looks 60 even though she's 77. If I'm lucky, I'll have another 25-30 years of life left - that's enough to have a whole other career! So I'm grabbing it by the horns to do what truly matters, helps me get to where I really want to go, and makes me feel alive! I hope you are too. Have a great Sunday and week ahead. Sharon ​ |
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