So what's your Worst Case Scenario?

I want to share a very powerful breakthrough that I personally made just before finally deciding to quit my cushy corporate lifestyle to set up my own business.

Most business start-up text books often advise would-be-entrepreneurs to consider their worst case business scenario before actually taking the plunge into business ownership.
So I sat down and I thought about it. The next day I scratched my head and I thought about it some more. A week later, I was still thinking about it.

And then the answer came to me.

The worst case scenario for my business idea was that it could all go terribly wrong and as a result I would have to go and take another job back in the corporate world.
Now that didn’t seem too bad, did it? I exhaled deeply and started to breath a little easier.
And then bang, as it so often happens, a self awareness insight hit me like a brick. I realised that I was actually already living my worst case scenario!

I silently gazed around the open plan office that I was working in. I looked into the eyes of my co-workers. I got the strange feeling that I wasn’t the only soul doing this.

So why do we live lives that don’t excite us?

So why is it that we choose to live out our working lives doing things that really don’t excite us? Well often, I believe it’s a part of a societal conditioning process. We live in a world that largely uses fear to condition people to conform to things that deep down they really don’t want to do. We are conditioned to play it safe. We are conditioned to believe that we less than are than we truly are.

This is done for good reason. It supports the existing global power structures. If we are fearful we are more than likely to believe that we are separate from each other. And if we believe that we are separate from each other, we are much easier to control.

Your challenge, should you choose to except it, is to rise above this energy pattern and step into your own power. The best way that you can achieve this is by doing the very things that you were born to do.

Are you being called to set up your own business?

If your calling is to set up a business, you need to act quickly. Make the most of any momentum you have already built up in your life and start considering how you can prosperously and profitably create meaningful experiences for yourself and for the people that surround you.
The successful businesses of the future will be the one’s that support the health and well being of the planet. When you step into this power, the world will move with you.

So what’s your worst case scenario?

So you have entrepreneurial tendencies that you aren’t currently expressing out into the world (yes you know who you are!).

Well ask yourself this question 'what is the worst case scenario of setting up my own business?’
Sit with this question. You don’t need an answer for it straight away. Mull over it for a few weeks if you have to, but make sure you get to an answer that is true for you.

When you get this answer ask yourself a second question ‘Am I already living my worst case scenario?’

If you are, then give yourself a little smile (and a high five if possible!) because you really have nothing to loose by just getting out there and going for it!