I’ve been wondering and wandering what to do about this blog. After all I’m sure that you may have noticed that posts have been sparse recently. That is partially due to time, partially due to diverting my efforts in to a new site, and partially due to a concern over what to write here.
Coaching and personal development musings, which take up a lot of the site to date, are moving to the new site, which is a site designed to provide advice, suggestions and book recommendations for those looking to make changes in their lives. In addition it is the home for information about the coaching and changework services that I provide, which is over and above my day job. URL to follow soon once the site is ready to launch. I’ve got enough content on there now, I’m just considering the layout and graphics now. I’ve also produced some products to sell too, however I am still toying with how and why to sell them. And I am still thinking about the final purpose of the site, which has changed a little since initial inception. Originally it was going to be a general self-help site that I would use to sell my products. However now it has changed to an on-line credibility resource to support my face-to face selling of my services. Currently the idea is that someone gets my business card and as a result has a look at my website as a supporting buying decision to the face-to face explanation of what I do.
And since I started the plans for the site, my work role has changed; I’ve taken on a lot more responsibility and I’m enjoying it a lot. So the new site and the coaching work is effectively a paid hobby rather than an aspiring career change. It gives me practice, covers its costs and grows my confidence to deal with even more challenging people, situations and problems.
Of course if it suddenly took off and could become a full time I would have to rethink. However I’m not sure I “really” want that. My job affords me great variation of work, challenges, people as well as keeping my family safe, fed and warm, at a time when home stability is more important than the crazy life of a business start-up.
So I set myself a limited amount of coaching hours and consequently charge a higher fee… which seems to be working fine, no complaints about value to date, and there shouldn’t be… there’s no desperate need to keep myself busy or pay the mortgage… and the income I get from the coaching gets fed back in to further learning. It’s all very nice thank you.
And who knows, maybe one day things will change and I might be a little more ready for it. Of course if you are totally ready for change then you’ve probably not noticed that the change has already started.
So the blog lives on. Sans lots of its previous gubbins, and consequently with it comes an even greater freedom to talk about whatever I like, of which this is an example. Who knows what bizarre ideas and beliefs I will espouse on these very pages. I do hope, however, that you continue to enjoy the ride.
