Friday, May 24, 2013

Launching while working, a pro's and con's list, and this one blogger that convinced me I got it right...



Cardio Kung Fu is growing, however, so are our household bills.  In December I took a little hiatus from full-time employment to focus on what our family needed (me home more with more flexibility while my husband traveled for work) and started working part-time.  This was ok for a while but recently it became clear to me that I needed to go back to work full-time.  I’m not independently wealthy so I don’t have the luxury of losing money while I get CKF up and running and working part-time, while the flexible schedule was awesome to begin with, has felt more like being held hostage as time has gone on.  I couldn’t get into a rhythm of working on growing CKF with my schedule changing every week (not to mention not being posted until a few days before the week actually started) and my stress was mounting with each barely-over-minimum payment I was making on my one credit card that has a balance on it.  After much consideration, a couple of weeks ago I decided to start looking for a full-time gig again.  Part of this contemplation included looking at pros and cons.  The pros, money, a feeling of purpose again doing work that was appreciated, structure, stability, vacation days, sick days.  The cons, no more full days off to build CKF, and, well I couldn’t come up with anything else.  Since I wasn’t actually using the full days to build my business (there were also pesky things like laundry, vacuuming, cooking, etc to  catch up on since my work schedule was so all over the map) I decided there really wasn’t a down side.  CKF is a new fitness program and the way I’m building exposure is by adding community education sites and that I can do while working.  It’s going to take time before I’m a household name so I figure why not have a stable income in the meantime.  I also know myself well enough to know I’m at my most effective when my schedule is full.  A full schedule means I don’t have time to waste on actions that won’t garner results.  And that’s just what this guy said so if it’s in a blog on the internet, it’s got to be true, right?


Oh, and BTW, I start my new full-time job on Tuesday…

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