Challenges from My Great Transition Period
Insights from my journey from a day job to entrepreneurial and freelancing career that I am currently on
Today I wanted to share with you some insights from my journey that I am currently on.
Yesterday I saw a post from Dr. Danielle McGinnis on Instagram about her transition out of strength and conditioning and physical therapy into her current vocational path.
It made me think about my own transition that is currently in progress.
My Great Transition
Going into 2022 I quit my job: I gave up the security, regular income and routine and went on an entrepreneurial / freelancing journey to become a writer, speaker, coach and consultant and find myself — my best self — again.
But it hasn’t been easy — quite the opposite. It’s been hard, so f*cking hard…
After 2021 — the forgotten year for me — the last 3 months have been very hard, mainly emotionally.
I’ve been dealing with and processing repressed things, identity crises, ego deaths and breaking up bad habits, beliefs and operating systems that I’d created — both consciously and unconsciously — to deal with the year 2021…
And in me personally, all the frictions and emotional distress show up and manifest with physical symptoms: digestive problems, lack of energy and fatigue, anxiety and depression and ultimately symptoms of burnout.
This week’s been a bit better. For the first time after a long time I’ve been feeling more in tune with my best self — physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually -, my ambitions, my purpose and direction in life.
Going into 2022, I had big plans and high expectations: I was stepping into and making my first steps towards what I felt was my true purpose. I thought to myself: “It will be much easier than doing a job that was killing me, right?”
The challenges from my transiotion
Well, like Dr. Danielle said in her post, it turns out that:
“Moving towards a deeper essence of what truly lights your soul on fire is hard, excruciating rather…”.
It’s so partly because you have to let go of the things: break up parts of your identity, break the habits, beliefs and operating systems that you created — both consciously and unconsciously — and don’t serve you anymore.
It’s so hard partly because these things are tied to our ego, and when we try to break them and create new operating systems, it feels like ego death, and our ego fights back.
It is also difficult because — author Steven Pressfiled talks about this — when we step towards our soul’s potential, Resistance shows up and tries to stop us and prevents us from achieving this and it makes our life feel like hell.
And then there are outside factors. We live in strange times: we went from living in a pandemic for two years to seeing the horrors of a new war, while being and feeling uncertain about what the future will bring — both economically and politically.
Keep Pushing!
It’s so easy to fall into and stay in that safe, preservation and comfortable mode where things are easier and more comfortable.
But we must resist these internal and external factors, gather our inner motivation, strengths and fight for what we believe in and for a better world!
So a huge hug and pat on the back to all of you who are on “your path”.
We got this!