Comments on: Finding Your Own Path

By: Liara Covert

Liara Covert — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:15:03 +0000

To reconnect with one's passion renews energy and direction. Guidance can be very helpful in this regard. Liara Coverts last blog post..When to withhold what you know?

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:34:35 +0000

@ Laurie – At first I thought it was you and you’d set up a business without telling anybody. She’s very welcome though and maybe we can set up a blog just for Lauries.

On reflection, that’s a stupid idea.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:09:36 +0000

Joely,you said, “I have the freedom to respond to what comes, and act according to my own strengths. ”

That says so much to me. This is what I am able to do in my business. Since I am my own boss, I have the freedom to erase the line I drew on my business map and draw in a new route as ideas hit me or opportunities come into focus.

Who is that other “Laurie” and what does she have my name? he he he :-)

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:47:18 +0000

Thanks a lot to Joely for her post today. It’s always cool to hear about people that are following their bliss so to speak.

@ Tracy – I’m thinking I should do a post explaining why your gut is nearly always right, huh?

@ Jenny – Blaze that trail girl! The thing is once you do that everybody else will be trying to jump on your path with you!

@ Ali – Trying going in out in shoes that don’t match. I did that to a business meeting once. I also went to the gym last week in odd trainers and one day even forgot my shorts and had to work out in some combats. I looked a complete dick, but so what?

@ Grace – If you’re not pulling your hair out at some stage then you must be doing something wrong. Unless you’re sans hair like I am.

@ Jay – When I left sales I burned my ‘brag file’ Every award and certificate went. About a month ago I threw away all my Toastmaster awards including 2 trophies. Who needs ‘em? It just tells you where you were and not where you are, or where you’re going. Don’t take that as an excuse to burn your marriage certificate though. Trust me on that one.

@ Laurie – OMG it’s fate, another comment pointing me toward writing a post on gut instincts!

By: Laurie | Express Yourself to Success

Laurie | Express Yourself to Success — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:45:30 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, Joely. Sometimes I find that I rationalize myself out of my instinct. You can guess what the results are…not pretty.

Congratulations on you recent successes – how exciting!

Wishing you all the best.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:09:27 +0000

This is very true. I have spent the last 20 years doing it the way others wanted me too. I have an accountatn degree that sits on the wall that might as well sit in the fireplace for all the accounting I will be doing in the future. We need to listen to our gut...and heart. They are the only things telling us the truth for OUR lives. Great post! Jays last blog post..How to Save the World

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:27:36 +0000

So, so true, and so, so inspiring! I'm in the middle of this process myself, in the alternately hair-tearing-out, absolutely-exhilerating process of rewriting my website to reflect what I really do (instead of what others told me I oughter be doing!), and feeling that amazing free-falling sense of ... wow. Yeah, I really DO know, I don't have to rely on others' expertise. So nice to see confirmation that it works, it's real, it's important. (And yes, I do get the irony of my writing "so nice to see confirmation" in the next sentence after "I don't have to rely on others' expertise." Woohoo, Joely! thanks for this, and thanks to Tim for making it available! Graces last blog post..Meditation

By: Ali Hale

Ali Hale — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:06:18 +0000

Joely, thanks for this — as with Tracy above, it really hit home for me too. I get anxious about doing things “right” (I was the kind of kid who got straight As all through school and college, and part of me is a bit weirded out by the fact that life just doesn’t work like that…)

It’s great to hear that following your heart has worked out well for you: I had similar experiences when I started out freelancing. Lots of work came in just when it was needed, much of it from friends and friends-of-friends who knew what I was up to.

Good luck on your path — and thanks for helping to keep me (and all Tim’s other readers!) heading in the right direction on ours.

And good luck with the new and scary bits too — I guess there’ll be a few — hope they come as wonderful and exciting opportunities!

Ali