Women Consultants, Are You Finding Your Business Draining?
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Do you fantasise about running away from your business? Perhaps you have a real urge to escape. No more client meetings, no projects to do, the freedom to get away from everyone else’s demands on your time.
You’ve got work coming in and you’re hitting low 6 figures. You’ve done it! This is the point you have been working towards. The moment when you thought you would feel successful. It’s as if you climbed the mountain, got to the top, and realised you had hiked up the wrong peak.
There you are, surveying the landscape around you and wondering why instead of feeling elated, you feel trapped.
Life doesn’t feel all that different because you have more money in the bank – however much we tell ourselves that will be the case when it feels like it’s years down the track that we will make that a reality. We usually aren’t wired to achieve one goal (even if it’s a big goal) and then feel fulfilled for the rest of our lives.
If you are still working all the hours and it feels like your consultancy business requires you to operate at 100% capacity all of the time, you will be feeling drained. After all, you probably set your business up because you wanted to create a different life for yourself. One where you could match your corporate income, or even increase it, while freeing yourself up to do other things. You don’t want to be working like this.
You might be trying to pick up productivity tips or thinking about your time management but I suspect the reason you’re feeling this way goes deeper than that. We often find the biggest clues in our emotions.
I’m exploring why you could be finding your consulting business so draining in this episode of the Seven Figure Consultant Podcast.
I talk about:
- The stories we tell ourselves about what success looks like
- Why you need to look beyond time management
- Developing an alter ego to run your business
- The cost of doing activities which do not align with your personality
- Changes you can make to feel energised by your consulting business
🎧 Head here to listen to this episode in full 104: Why Is My Consulting Business So Draining?
And let me know, do you keep track of how you are feeling about your business?
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It’s the framework that helps consultant women like you find their feet and get back to leading the business, rather than being buried in client work and back-end business operations.
Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your feedback and future topics you’d like me to feature.