Which Business Idea Should You Pursue?

3 Things to Consider Before Leaving Your Job

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You want to leave your current job. So you applied to another job. But honestly though? You’re not crazy about that job either.

You wish you could pursue other interests and ideas instead. You think the answer might be to start your own business.

But how do you know which idea to go with?

Consider these three things.

Combine your interests into one idea.

That’s what I did.

I explored desired possibilities as I worked in full-time office jobs I wasn’t particularly crazy about. I considered my love for and experience with inspirational speaking, acting, on-camera hosting, emceeing, life coaching, writing, and performing/teaching dance and fitness.

I had pursued several of these independently, but I wanted to experience all of them in one setting.

My business Feel Good Kick Ass began as a hybrid movement and coaching service in 2015. My signature offering was the Rock Your Life Danceshops™, for which I was, and am still, proud of creating. I inspired and coached groups of people while entertaining them in the context of a dance/movement experience with content I wrote. Boom!  All my interests in one idea.

Explore a hybrid possibility for your own endeavor.


Seek outside perspectives.

If you can’t see a way to combine your ideas, involve someone else in your process. Your proximity to your own circumstance might prevent you from seeing what a skilled problem-solver can see. With a little help you just might figure out the hybrid model for your new career or business. Let me make it real easy for you. Message me for a free consultation.


Just pick one.

If you prefer to choose one path but don't know which one to pick, be careful not to set up residence in the contemplation zone. This is where you vacillate for a ridiculous amount of time. Two years go by and you're still thinking which interest to pursue.

Massive indecision ensures you'll never have to risk failure. Letting yourself stay stuck in confusion is a clever way your unconscious mind keeps you safe. New endeavors mean danger to the primitive brain. Your rational thinking mind knows you're OK. Go ahead and choose a path.

Imagine that all your interests were guaranteed to be successful. If that were the case, which one would you enjoy doing more? If you knew that, no matter what you did, your path was going to thrive and be prosperous, then it’s just a matter of selecting the more appealing path.

I learned this decision-making technique from my coach Brooke and it has helped me. Try it.

If you desire further assistance with making decisions, be sure to read my other articles Why It’s So Hard to Make Decisions and How to Make Confident Decisions.

Think of "starting a business" in a less anxiety-producing way. Starting a business can feel daunting and overwhelming, especially when you already feel upset about the current unhappy state of your work life. I invite you to make a small tweak in your thinking.

Instead of putting all that pressure on yourself to start a business in order to get out of your current job, do this instead:

• First, shift your mindset around your current job. Yeah you can. Read How to Not Hate Your Job for a simple first step to transform negative work vibes. I will share additional steps in future articles and posts so be sure to follow me on LinkedIn, if you're not already.

As you shift your perspective about your job into one of empowerment, the urgency you feel about leaving will decrease. Less anxiety means you'll have more vitality to create your new endeavor.

• Second, think of starting a business as a practice in experimentation, especially if you're a first-timer. You're just exploring the growth of an idea. Do you feel the difference? For me, exploration is less pressured than having to start a new business from scratch. Sometimes a tweak in semantics is all you need to move forward.

The first interest I explored, prior to creating Feel Good Kick Ass, was developing my written and spoken voice as a mindset coach. I produced weekly episodes for a mindset blogcast every single week for 11 months straight.

The next interest was introducing life coaching components in the dance/fitness classes I was already teaching.

After that, I explored renting a yoga studio and starting a meetup group to facilitate what became the Rock Your Life Danceshops™.

Somewhere in there I also explored working with one-on-one clients privately. And so on.

For you, explore one thing then the next. Include a few free clients to boost your confidence. Then work your way up from there.
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To sum it up:

1. Take a pass at combining your interests into one idea.
2. If you can’t combine them, ask a neutral third party for input.
3. When all else fails, just pick one, knowing that you could thrive at any of them.
4. Stay in the energy of exploration and experimentation, or what I like to call explorimentation.

The only way to get it wrong is by not doing anything. You’ve got this.

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